Pet Stories Blog

Linda Fortune

Author of Regal: An Intimate View of One Magnificent Feline

Consultation with my vet.

Welcome,

As I mentioned in my last blog, I will keep reentering my Regal video so that it would appear at the beginning of each new blog entry. That way, the video would always be immediately visible and available. Now, back to the continuation of my evolving Tux story.

You might wonder why I did not choose to wear gloves when I was on my Millie and Tux adventures. To be honest, I usually did not think about it. However, I did sometimes ask myself that very question as I winced after one of Tux’s unerring swats. Basically, it seems, I felt that it was important that Tux become familiar with my scent and learn to feel safe with me. Needless to say, I unconsciously chose to always leave my gloves in the car.

In the meantime, making no real progress in getting close enough or in a position to pick Tux up, I decided to get the advise of my vet, Peggy. We explored the possibility of a tranquilizing medication but I immediately set that option aside as I found that medication could sometimes have the absolute opposite effect.  Peggy then suggested that I utilize a towel and do a cover and grab as I quickly moved to pick her up. As a last straw, she suggested using a fish net to catch her.

I do have to say that the thought of a fish net did bring kind of a chuckle at first as the visual image arose in my mind. However, not having a sadistic kind of humor and even with my bit of justification considering the presenting problem, the chuckle quickly faded as the seriousness of the situation and the image of her resisting inside such a net arose. The reality was not a particularly beautiful one and it did not represent the peaceful, un-traumatizing transfer that I had hoped to make. But, considering the presenting problem of not being able to get close enough to pick Tux up, the fish net was an alternative that I needed to consider as a last resort.

Next entry: Here’s what happened…the catching of Tux.

Blessings, Linda