On 12th October my beautiful Dru went off to the vet to be spayed. Collecting her that afternoon I was handed a buster collar and a list of instructions for care in the immediete post operative period.
Firstly - the buster collar - well - we tried and we failed. My husband held her while I put the collar on - about 8 attempts and each time she got it off in seconds. We gave that up as a bad job and decided to just watch her to see she did not get at her stitch.
Secondly - keep her quiet. Hmmm! Decided to bed her down in our room as she likes sleeping with us and will often just settle down. This worked well and the next morning we were relieved to see that her stitch remained intact and that she was her usual purring self.
Just at the point when we were congratulating ourselves on mostly following the instructions the vet had given us, a spider wandered out of behind the curtain and sat motionless at the top of the window. Dru was up the curtains in about 3 seconds flat where she hung, gripping onto the curtain material with back claws and one set of front claws while the other paw swung around in attempt to get the spider. Spider fell to the floor - so did Dru whereupon she sat washing herself with an "I meant to do that" expression on her face.
All I could think was that having surgery like Dru had just experienced would have meant me being in bed for days - obviously if you are a six month old cat it doesn't matter.
