Pipp
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Houli, short for Houligan, lost her week and a half long battle with injuries suffered when she slipped out the door of my house, ran down the steps and immediately found herself between a mother raccoon and her four kits.
Houli, always a rather ill-tempered, self-involved cat, particularly in her later years (she was 20) spat and hissed at momma instead of just backing away, and much to her surprise, momma beat the crap out of her. Houli at that point decided maybe a hasty retreat wasn't such a bad thing after all.
But she really must have p'd-off that raccoon. Three hours later and a block and a half away, as I was looking for her a neighbour again separated Houli and the raccoon and took her in to the Animal Emergency Clinic. She was patched up with a decent prognosis. But after a week and a half and false hope generated by a clean set of lower vertebrae x-rays, it was determined that the damage was greater than at first thought. She would need her tail amputated at the base and a shunt installed. It was a major operation with other mitigating factors not conducive to an easy recovery.
It was decided that the best course of action was to release her from her pain.
She crossed the bridge at 1:30 PM PT today.
She was an awesome cat - personality plus - and she will be missed my her little friend Skye (not that Houli gave her the time of day) and me. She liked me. The rabbits, not so much. Pipp got along with her very well as a baby, but jealousy soon set in and Pipp became the scourge of Houli's existence -- until the bunny barricades went up. But I digress.
Houli you will be missed.
(PS: So sorry I didn't realize you also had an infected tooth, so your last few months were probably spent in pain). :cry2
sas :sad:
RIP Houli
