I was preparing the kitties' breakfast yesterday morning in the bathroom sink and as usual, Dugan jumps onto the toilet and then onto the bathroom counter top to investigate what I'm doing. He's made this jump a hundred times (the curious little bugger), but yesterday he somehow miscalculated his jump onto the counter top and proceeded to fall over, taking all the towels that were on the counter with him on his fall down.
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| Dugan on top of the towels that he took down with him on his fall off the counter |
Normally, he just comes out from behind the toilet and then proceeds to make the same jump again. Except this time, he must have landed wrong and I heard this excruciating "MEOW!". I knew that he had hurt something, so I bent over to see if he was okay. Well, I guess Mommy heard his pained MEOW and thought that I was the cause of her baby's cries and proceeded to put her claws into me, bit my leg and then hissed at me. I proclaimed loudly at her "I didn't do it! It's not my fault!" Being a cat of course, she didn't understand what I was saying and proceeded to just growl at me and has been cool to me ever since.
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| Protective Mommy |
Dugan started limping when he came out from behind the toilet, which caused me to panic and send emails out to my foster coordinator and to the vaccination team that was scheduled to give Dugan his booster shot on Monday. Of course, an hour later he had walked it off and was soon bouncing around the house and running after his tin foil ball.
Crisis averted. I guess I should have waited a bit before alerting the authorities.
I hope Dugan doesn't make too much of a fuss when he gets his vaccination on Monday. If he cries too loud, I hope Mommy doesn't get too upset (and blame me again).
Apparently when kittens are vaccinated, the mother cats are always put into another room. If they hear their kittens' cry out in pain from the needles, they will most likely attack - just like Mrs. Fitz did to me when she heard Dugan cry out in the bathroom.
Never underestimate the protectiveness of a mother cat.
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