After feeling better over the weekend, the sick staged a ...

After feeling better over the weekend, the sick staged a comeback yesterday. It would be nice if this went away someday.

Weird cat problem: Bella went to the vet fourteen days ago to get her distended fang removed. It had been significantly longer than her other one for quite a while, and you could actually see it extending below her lip when her mouth was closed. It had been there so long I thought it was a genetic anomaly (she has weird things going on with her claws, too) until it actually started to look longer and the vet noticed and said it was caused by an infected tooth root. Since Bella got back from the vet, Tasha has refused to get near her, growls and hisses, and basically treats her like we brought a strange adult cat into the house. My question is, what the hell?

Usually every time a cat goes to the vet, even for a check-up, there's some hissing from the other one when she comes back. I always figured that was because the returning cat smelled of the vet and the office, but it never went on longer than a couple of hours. This has gone on for two weeks.

Tasha is only a couple years old and has known Bella since she was a kitten, and Bella had the distended fang the entire time. Could it be that Tasha doesn't recognize her without it? How much do cats rely on visual recognition as opposed to scent? Bella wasn't even at the vet overnight, just for six hours or so.




Couple of things: chomiji won my con_or_bust auction for an autographed copy of The Cloud Roads, yay!

If you missed it on Sunday, The Cloud Roads is also now available as a Barnes and Noble NookBook (as well as a Baen Webscription eBook and a Amazon Kindle Edition.)