more about felines

Cat is still sick. The right side of his face is still all swollen up. The vet suspects that some kind of infection, either bacterial or fungal, has taken root in his sinuses behind his ocular cavity, where she can't get at it to drain. Whatever it is, the antibiotic drops aren't touching it, so we're discontinuing those, and have started with a new set of pills and crossed fingers. If he continues to not improve, we'll have to look for a referral, 'cause the vet says she's at a loss what more to do for him.

Hopefully he'll come out of this with his eye still working and no brain damage. (Though, he's a cat, so I don't know how much that'd change things. O.o)

More interestingly: On the checkout side of the vet office, there's a cage full of cats up for adoption. Usually it's Cheddar, a good-tempered middle-aged she-cat -- but as I was coming in they were clearing the cage out, and when I came out again there were three kittens in it. One of them bore a startling resemblance to the little black kitten I found in our yard however many weeks ago -- same age and everything. I asked the girl, and she says that they got those three kittens from a local woman who found them wandering a while and took them in and fed them and stuff. She couldn't keep them indefinitely, though, so she gave them to the vet's.

Kittens don't come in singles, but the one I found was all alone. Could that kitten at the vet's office be her brother?