What a day yesterday was! As many of you know, due to food allergies, Cody has been on a limited ingredient diet since last summer. (If you are a newer follower you may want to read about it here)
A couple of days ago I had caught Cody pilfering some of Dakota's dry food from the closet where it is stored, by the time I had nabbed him he had already eaten at least one piece, possibly more.
Last night I noticed a rather large and bloody lesion on Cody's head near his right ear, after checking him thoroughly I also noticed the beginning of more lesions by his left ear.
Afraid of possible infection I decided to take Cody to the vet today to have him checked out and put on meds.
What happened before we left not only completely baffled me but caused me to laugh so hard I could barely contain myself!
We all know how hard it normally is to get a cat into their carrier for the dreaded vet trip. In the 20+ years that I have been owned by a cat I have NEVER had this happen.
I walked into my office and Cody was ALREADY IN HIS CRATE! He had put himself IN THE CRATE! I was beside myself with shock!
I know none of you will believe this, I was so stunned at my good fortune that I called my husband to run in and see what I had found. Cody also removed "Dr.Smiley" from the crate himself, as the Cat Gods are my witness, I had NOTHING to do with this! I even told everyone at the vet's office what had happened!
There was no need to entice trick him with food, nothing! He was ready to go! I gingerly walked over to close the carrier door certain my good luck would end with Cody darting away. Nope. The poor little guy must have been feeling even worse than I imagined. It was as if he was sending me a message "Mom I need to go to the vet and I am ready to go! I will be a brave boy!" I cannot begin to tell you how proud I was of my boy! Here is the story of what happened, from Cody's eyes;
Cody is doing fine! He received a shot of an antibiotic and he is now on Prednisone for the next few weeks. To those who sent messages of goodwill and concern on my Facebook Cat Chat With Caren & Cody page we THANK YOU!
Now, on to what this blog was supposed to be about today. The WINNERS of the INNOVA PET FOOD GIVE-AWAY!!
I went to www.random.org and used their:
Random Integer Generator
Here are your random numbers:
2
8
10
Timestamp: 2011-07-27 00:02:24 UTC
Number 2 was SKKORMAN
Number 8 was KEFRITH
Number 10 was CAMIE'S KITTIES
Thanks to all who entered! Please email me your mailing address to cgittleman at mi dot rr dot com. If I don't hear from you by the end of the week another winner will be selected in your place.
