Day 792: A rough day
May. 19th, 2022 08:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
eve_primeToday started pretty well - a good night's sleep and not much more ill than yesterday, though poor D. is still coughing nearly continuously. But then I checked my phone and found a morning call from the 24-hr emergency vet. I listened to the voicemail they'd left and learned that someone had brought in our poor little cat Tertius, who presumably had been hit by a car, and didn't make it. He was microchipped, hence the phone call.
*sigh*
You might remember my worries about going on evening walks, since not just Blitzen but now Tertius too was following me, and how every time we walk to the store now we have to check to make sure the cats aren't following. Tertius was the most likely to dash off to explore new things, and he was also much too camoflaged. (I had to change the verb tense as I typed the last sentence; I kept starting with present tense.)
Poor little guy.
Since J. and I are both sick, we weren't really up for driving all the way to the emergency vet, on the north side of Springfield, but they said there was no rush. Our dear, dear friend AA, however, volunteered for it and brought him home. Now he has a nice place in the back of the garden.
I so strongly prefer to keep cats indoors, and I would still like to have Azalyn and especially Ambrose inside someday, although the very existence of non-Sorin cats is too stressful for Ajani. Tertius, however, was never really a candidate for that - too independent to stand being picked up or held or restrained at all. He did like to dash into my house, head-butt Ajani, and dash back out again.
So many things remind me of him. Poor little man. Oberon was very attached to him too. This is my most recent photo of Tertius - Oberon's the much bigger, mostly black cat on the right. They had been snuggled up together in the top of my stacking baskets, on my front porch.
*sigh*
You might remember my worries about going on evening walks, since not just Blitzen but now Tertius too was following me, and how every time we walk to the store now we have to check to make sure the cats aren't following. Tertius was the most likely to dash off to explore new things, and he was also much too camoflaged. (I had to change the verb tense as I typed the last sentence; I kept starting with present tense.)
Poor little guy.
Since J. and I are both sick, we weren't really up for driving all the way to the emergency vet, on the north side of Springfield, but they said there was no rush. Our dear, dear friend AA, however, volunteered for it and brought him home. Now he has a nice place in the back of the garden.
I so strongly prefer to keep cats indoors, and I would still like to have Azalyn and especially Ambrose inside someday, although the very existence of non-Sorin cats is too stressful for Ajani. Tertius, however, was never really a candidate for that - too independent to stand being picked up or held or restrained at all. He did like to dash into my house, head-butt Ajani, and dash back out again.
So many things remind me of him. Poor little man. Oberon was very attached to him too. This is my most recent photo of Tertius - Oberon's the much bigger, mostly black cat on the right. They had been snuggled up together in the top of my stacking baskets, on my front porch.
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