Early morning light
My employers have certainly gotten their money's worth out of me this week. We've had a little over 50 boarders (this includes geriatric cats and hospitalized cats). Boarders require not only feeding, cleaning cages and laundering bedding, but they involve doing services on many of them including exams, vaccines, blood work, nail trims, ear cleanings, giving fluids under the skin and medicating.
On average, I'd say that 10% of boarders develop some sort of medical problem that requires calls to the owners and then treatments (things like sneezing, vomiting, diarrhea, not eating...). Then we had a cat yesterday who went into cardiac/respiratory distress. She was in a large cage with her two siblings and they each had "hidy-hole" beds. They all seemed to be relaxed and doing fine until yesterday when Popcorn started laying on her side and having very heavy, labored breathing - almost like she was taking agonal breaths. She required emergency, life-saving measures, calls to the owners, oxygen, chest x-rays... The owner had boarded her cats because of work being done on her house that she thought would be stressful to her cats but when she heard about Popcorn she rushed right over to pick them up and take them home - essentially to say good-bye to Popcorn before euthanizing her.
In addition to the boarders we were overbooked with appointments (we were closed on the 4th of July and everyone in the world who owns a cat decided that their cat was dying on the 5th and 6th of July and needed to bring their cats right out to the vet - Immediately!).
Finally, we had many new boarders that I wanted to take pictures of for their files and to send to their owners along with updates on how their cats were doing.
All of this is not necessarily to complain about my job but to explain why I had no time this week to take pictures of my own cats but I did want something to post for Happy Caturday. So I rushed out this morning, found some shadows and took some pictures.
Happy Caturday: light and shadows
Early morning light
My employers have certainly gotten their money's worth out of me this week. We've had a little over 50 boarders (this includes geriatric cats and hospitalized cats). Boarders require not only feeding, cleaning cages and laundering bedding, but they involve doing services on many of them including exams, vaccines, blood work, nail trims, ear cleanings, giving fluids under the skin and medicating.
On average, I'd say that 10% of boarders develop some sort of medical problem that requires calls to the owners and then treatments (things like sneezing, vomiting, diarrhea, not eating...). Then we had a cat yesterday who went into cardiac/respiratory distress. She was in a large cage with her two siblings and they each had "hidy-hole" beds. They all seemed to be relaxed and doing fine until yesterday when Popcorn started laying on her side and having very heavy, labored breathing - almost like she was taking agonal breaths. She required emergency, life-saving measures, calls to the owners, oxygen, chest x-rays... The owner had boarded her cats because of work being done on her house that she thought would be stressful to her cats but when she heard about Popcorn she rushed right over to pick them up and take them home - essentially to say good-bye to Popcorn before euthanizing her.
In addition to the boarders we were overbooked with appointments (we were closed on the 4th of July and everyone in the world who owns a cat decided that their cat was dying on the 5th and 6th of July and needed to bring their cats right out to the vet - Immediately!).
Finally, we had many new boarders that I wanted to take pictures of for their files and to send to their owners along with updates on how their cats were doing.
All of this is not necessarily to complain about my job but to explain why I had no time this week to take pictures of my own cats but I did want something to post for Happy Caturday. So I rushed out this morning, found some shadows and took some pictures.
Happy Caturday: light and shadows