THIS IS COOL

Ain’t it Cool News ran a review of “Fallen Angel,” and it was an unqualified rave. So that was nice.

I have to say, I’ve been pleasantly surprised. I wasn’t entirely sure readers would “let” me write something different from what I’m known for. That there would be resistence to it. But that doesn’t seem to be the case thus far.

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ALL CREATURES GREAT AND SMALL

My cat, Pandora, slunk in this evening and I found that something had bit her on the haunches. She’d already torn away a chunk of her fur trying to scratch at it. I immediately got the number of a 24 hour animal hospital and brought her over there. Ahead of us was a cat who had used up at least three of his nine lives when he decided that chewing on a power cord would be a spiffy idea and essentially killed himself (the only thing bringing him back being his owner’s massaging his chest).

Pandora got her backside shaved and there’s a nasty single puncture wound. I’m left wondering what would have left a sole puncture, since most animals you’ll run into–with the exception of Bucky from “Get Fuzzy”–have more than one fighting tooth. The doctor pumped her up with antibiotics and a pain killer, and put a collar around her that she initially had off in about ten seconds. We put it back on her and since then the pain killer kicked in and now she’s just lying there. She hasn’t even emerged from the cat carrier even though the door’s been sitting open for half an hour.

I’ll bring her to her regular vet Monday.

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