Cats of stupidity

At the beginning of December, Cosmo the cat got a small blade of grass stuck in his nasal cavity.  The vets did all sorts of exploratory poking and prodding before they worked this out, and consequently we didn't get much change out of £500, all told.  Thankfully, the insurance paid up and we were recompensed for everything but the excess and the additional dental work that was required.

On Thursday, the stupid moggy did it again.  I didn't rush him to the vets immediately as he'd already managed to bring some of the stuck grass up and out, and wanted to see if the rest would come out too.  But on Friday night he was coughing and retching and unable to keep any food down longer than a few minutes, so on Saturday morning Doug took him to the vet.

This time we knew what was wrong, so despite the vet saying "it might just be a tummy bug", Doug insisted that they put him under and wash his nasal cavity out; a few hours later, I got a call from the vet to say that they'd removed an enormous piece of grass from his nose and throat.  Once again, they gave us the grass as a memento - last time it was a tiny piece about 1 cm long and so thin it was almost invisible, but this time it was about 5 inches long with barbs at the top; as the vet said, "I wouldn't want that stuck in my nose either".

This cost us £85.  We should get £35 back from the insurance, but I'm starting to wonder at what point they write to us to tell us that grass removal will no longer be included in the cover.

Stupid cat.

An expensive week so far....

On Monday evening, one of the cats (Cosmo) started coughing and retching violently and was generally ill enough to warrant a visit to the vets.  Respiritory illness was originally diagnosed, with a warning that it could also be something stuck in his respiritory system; added to this was the fact that he'd got a hole in one of his teeth.  Anyway, after much worry and faffing, today they put him under and had a root around to see what they could find; what they found was a big blade of grass stuck in his nasal cavity.  They also removed the holey tooth while he was out for the count.

I'm going to collect him later on, but have already been warned that this is going to set us back by £300 to £400.  We have insurance, but that doesn't cover the tooth removal; however, by doing it as part and parcel of the operation to remove the grass, it should make it a whole lot cheaper i.e. we won't be paying for the general anasthetic etc, just the vet's time.

Still, it won't be tuppence ha'penny.  And added to the fact that my Sat Nav was pinched from my car overnight, it is proving to be a very expensive week.  So much so that Jacob's christmas present bike went from a posh ultra-cool one to one from Tesco that I could get through the Club Card Voucher swap.   Squeezed middle indeed.