Category: Cat blogging

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Friday Cat Blogging

Haven’t taken many pictures lately, but there is this article at the New York Post that my wife sent me this morning.

It’s not easy learning to dog-paddle when you’re a cat.
Here’s 6-year-old Nazzaning, partially paralyzed by a spinal-cord injury, learning to walk again with the help of aquatic therapy at Water 4 Dogs, an animal-rehabilitation center on Worth Street in TriBeCa.

The cat is a Turkish Van, like our late Snoopy.

Since most cats have a maniacal aversion to H2O, there was doubt that Nazzaning would willingly take the plunge.

Er. Not bloody likely. She’s a Van. They love water. They’re called “the swimming cats”:

Unusual for cat breeds, Turkish Vans love to play in the water and will join you in the tub for a dip or help you in the sink and are known as “the swimming cat.”

But anyway, it’s a cute story and the cat is lovely. Unfortunately it appears that the video link is broken. Ah, here it is on YouTube.

And if you need more cute:

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All in all, we were lucky.

Instapundit points out an article entitled, “How much would you pay for a sick pet?”
So far, with Tigger (the monster Tabby), the bill has reached about $4500. You can click on the Cat Blogging category of this blog and immediately be regaled with the tale of the spool of thread that cost $3700 to remove from his gullet when he was 3. We made payments for months on that. We were lucky enough to have the money to do so.
Then in 2007, Tigger had some kind of urinary blockage that cost another $800 to fix. Again, even though at the time we were paying two mortgages, we were able and willing to pay that bill and keep the ol’ furball with us.
There’s a $4500 (about $225/lb), 10-year-old cat asleep on my desk right now. I wouldn’t trade him for the world.
I know a lot of other people couldn’t afford to do what we did. I’m just glad we were able to.