So he drops them off then goes and does some errands. Just a couple hours later he gets a phone call from the vet and for those first few initial seconds between seeing their number on the screen and having the person talk to him he got really scared. We had a cat, Alanis, that passed away after being taken in for a tooth pulling. We came in to pick her up but she wasn't quite ready yet. She was only just coming out of the anesthesia. They said that it would probably be at least an hour before she'd be ready. They asked us if we'd like to see her, we did so we did. She was awake but barely, we each gave her some love and told her we'd be back in a little while. We had plans to see a movie and were gonna do that but then decided not to because that'd be longer than the hour they were saying so we went home. Good thing we did, pretty much right after we walked in the door they called to say she passed away. Very very sad. I'm glad we were able to see her and give her some love before it happened though. So anyway, at that moment he couldn't remember if it was for that or for fixing, he thought fixing though. So yeah, for about 10 seconds he was really worried that he was getting a call to say one or both passed away. Because it just seemed too soon for them to be calling.
But luckily that's all it was. They were doing just fine and he could come by and pick them up any time. So he got there shortly after the call. In between doing his other errands he was home and said they pretty much were just sleeping the whole time, when they would get up they moved slowly. Which is what I observed when I got home. Normally they're sitting at the back door when I walk in at 5:30 ready for their dinner. Yesterday only Merry and Pogo were there. And I was there for a good two minutes before Pippin showed up. Coming slowly up the stairs from the basement.
After eating they kind of wondered around a little bit while I made dinner and HDT unloaded and reloaded the dishwasher. But nothing like normal that's for sure. I picked Pippin up a couple times and he just sort of laid in my arms blinking slowly. Too cute really.
When we settled on the couch to eat dinner and watch tv Merry jumped up and settled down next to my legs on my blanket. After awhile Pippin showed up and nestled in with him. And that's where they stayed for the rest of the night. Even through me getting up a couple times. They just sort of looked up at me when I disturbed them with these sad eyes. But once I came back they did the slow blink at me and then went back to sleep.
When I went to bed they came up and settled on my pillow with Pogo as usual. I'm lucky if I get just enough of the pillow for my head. I can't even think about moving because if I do at least one of them, usually Merry, will slide right in where my head was because he's usually leaning on me. Love those little monsters.
Media quote of the day: Shrek 2
I say we take the sword and neuter him right here! Give him the Bob Barker treatment! - Donkey - he's saying it to Shrek about Puss-n-Boots. Heh
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