Please be very careful with the cat bites. I know you will be but have to
say it anyway. I little feral broken a finger (much to the dismay of an
entire hand practice at a university here). I had surgery twice.
Immediately to repair some damage and later (supposedly) to repair the nail
bed. The last surgery was after a very long course of antibiotics. Instead
of repairing the nail bed they wound up cleaning out the wound again. Seems
like it was very infected with no outer signs of infection. Some of these
"bugs" can get into the bone and fester for months or years. I am not
saying this to scare you just to ask that you keep an especially close eye
on the situation. Your cats value you much too much to let you spend too
much time at a hospital.
If you have men who will
exclude any of God's creatures
from the shelter of
compassion and pity, you will have men who
will deal likewise with
their fellow man.
St.
Francis
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kelly L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <felvtalk@felineleukemia.org>
Sent: Monday, May 21, 2007 11:47 PM
Subject: Great Snake evening excitement
Ok..So I am alone and head into the bedroom to see several cats curiously
looking under the dresser. this can mean, a toad, a bird, a gopher or
snake,,,I have already removed a few garter snakes from the cats this
year,,, i got down on my hand and knees,,,shooing the cats away and heard
a very irritated snake under the dresser. i could not tell if it was a
gopher snake or a rattle snake,,,So now what,,there are 13 cats in there
and i tried to get them out with out scaring them under the
dresser,,favorite hiding place,,I did not want to leave as i needed to
keep track of the snake, I tossed a few cats in the bathroom,,slammed the
door,,,got one into the closet and scared a few into my cat inclosure and
locked them out, that left only 4 more,
I called Ashley, my cat helper to come give me a hand,,She arrived a few
moments later,,,boots,,,rake and pail,,,but i still needed to get one
feral out of the room,,,Well I grabbed her by the scuff and was almost out
the door but she turned and really got me good, Several very deep bites
but I got her out,
Well we got the snake out and once in the light it looked more like a poor
little scared gopher snake so we took him out to the vineyards to release
him,,, I have pictures if anyone wants to see him,,,
the moral of the story is ..well there may not be one,,find a snake in
your room and go the emergency room with a cat bite!!
What is strange is I have a pair of Red Tail hawks nesting in my palm
tree and eating on the telephone pole out side my window,,,each day they
seem to come home dangling a snake and i was just commenting that all my
snakes will disappear,,,hmmm
Kelly
