Mary, queen of cats

I recently got a new Samsung U700 cellphone, which of course is not really such a good thing. I am a scatter brain and I have a tendency to forget things in places.

And so it was this week that I went to our copier/scanner machine at the office (which happens to be on the third floor and I work on the first floor). I had my cell in my hand and trying to operate the big scanning contraption turned out to be a bit of a hassle while trying to hold on to a cellphone. Thus I placed the cellphone on the floor by my feet, making a mental note not to forget it.

A while later I received a phone call from a colleague asking me whether I was interested in buying a phone. I informed him that I recently got a new phone but thanks anyway. My colleague was persistent. I decided to indulge him and asked him what kind of phone and how much.

He said it was a Samsung and it came in a camouflage sock.

It hit me like a ton of bricks: I forgot my phone at the scanning copier machine thing, on the floor.

I went to the third floor to collect my phone and asked my colleague how he knew it was my phone.

His answer? “The cat gave it away”. (I have a picture of Mary on my phone).

So all you cat lovers out there – it pays to have a picture of your cat on your phone!

It’s been a while since I posted on Mary’s site. I took a bit of a prolonged break from anything computer related. Since the last post, Mary had to go to the vet twice, and we experienced quite a few “tantrums”.

The first visit entailed injections. We went to the vet to get more of her prescription food as she was all out, only to be told the food won’t be available in the country for the next 3 months as there is some or other problem with customs. We called around everywhere. All surgeries were out of stock. We fed her on ordinary cat food pouches. After 3 days, we noticed Mary’s irritable skin condition was back. This confirmed what the vet suspected: there is something in the food that irritates her skin. Makes one wonder what they put in it….

Anyway, so off to the vet we go. She got a shot to help relieve the condition. We were worse than dog poo. Oh wait hang on no, I was worse than dog poo because somehow this was all my fault. This put us in a difficult position. What is she going to eat? We can’t feed her ordinary food! The vet suggested some other food (which was ludicrously expensive, but there is no price on Mary’s health!), but madam rather starved herself for two days than eat it. We tried absolutely everything. We even bought her fresh raw fish. She just was not interested. We were desperate. We finally found a tin of food called Lucky Pet Supreme, containing whole pilchards or whole sardines in jelly. This she happily ate. I was worried at first that it was because she was so damn hungry she would eat just about everything and then as soon as her hunger were satisfied she would pull her nose up at it again, but so far so good! I don’t know what effect it will have on her skin because the injection lasts about a month or so, so we will just have to wait and see.

The next visit saw Mary stay overnight at the vet’s. She came in one morning with a fat bottom lip. Literally. By the evening the swelling had not gone down, so off we went to the vet. Somehow she hurt herself on her bottom lip and in the space of a day the wound developed an abscess which had to be drained. We had to leave her there overnight and pick her up the next day after work. It was painfully difficult to carry her to the cage and leave her there. I wanted to crack. My poor poor baby.

When we collected her the next day my partner and I were like little kids on Christmas morning! We could not wait to have kitty back with us again! She was equally happy to see us. All these visits meant she had to stay inside for a day or so after each visit – we did not want her to run away because she was upset with us (you never know with Mary!).

I am pleased to report that she is doing well and I sincerely hope it stays that way. I really can’t afford to lose the teeny bit of popularity I worked so hard to get!