Best wishes for Pongo
Oct. 1st, 2011 06:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Ones of my cats, Pongo, was apparently hit by a car last night :(
I found him in the hall, which immediately roused my suspicion since he never usually sleeps there. I damn near had a heart attack when I noticed a blood stain on the carpet and couldn't see him visibly breathing, not to mention him not moving when I touched him.
Anyway, he was very lethargic, and when he got up he walked around for a bit, slumped down again and leaked some more watery blood out, which appeared to be coming from his genitals. He keep growling or meowing when I tried to look and see where the blood was coming from.
Pongo back in March 2009:

Well of course we got him off to the vets. They do suspect he's been hit by a car and has damaged his bladder, amongst the other less serious cuts and bruises, which was why the watery blood was coming from his genitals. They're unable to tell initially, but they hope that the bladder is still in tact, and they'll be phoning later with an update.
So I'll be keeping my fingers crossed. Pongo is a tough cat, he's 9 years old and we've had him literally his whole life (he was born in our house). So I'm desperately hoping he will pull through this.

I'll add the update onto this post when we hear news.
~ Ace.
I found him in the hall, which immediately roused my suspicion since he never usually sleeps there. I damn near had a heart attack when I noticed a blood stain on the carpet and couldn't see him visibly breathing, not to mention him not moving when I touched him.
Anyway, he was very lethargic, and when he got up he walked around for a bit, slumped down again and leaked some more watery blood out, which appeared to be coming from his genitals. He keep growling or meowing when I tried to look and see where the blood was coming from.
Pongo back in March 2009:
Well of course we got him off to the vets. They do suspect he's been hit by a car and has damaged his bladder, amongst the other less serious cuts and bruises, which was why the watery blood was coming from his genitals. They're unable to tell initially, but they hope that the bladder is still in tact, and they'll be phoning later with an update.
So I'll be keeping my fingers crossed. Pongo is a tough cat, he's 9 years old and we've had him literally his whole life (he was born in our house). So I'm desperately hoping he will pull through this.
I'll add the update onto this post when we hear news.
~ Ace.
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Date: 2011-10-05 12:21 pm (UTC)But as I say, Italy is at the top of my places to visit wishlist, there and the Netherlands (I'm currently trying to learn Dutch), so it's good to know it's such a friendly place. I've only ever been outside the UK once before - to Greece when I was younger - and I've always wanted to travel around Europe. I'm impressed at how many places you've been to.
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Date: 2011-10-05 01:03 pm (UTC)As for travel, I suspect that I am way older than you - late thirties vs your early twenties - so you have plenty of time to beat my "record". I did not really start travelling until I was nearly twenty (and now I can no longer afford to travel much, but at least I've seen a bunch of places by now.)