Humphrey : Not another visit to the vet please

If you’d seen me yesterday morning as I sat on the kitchen floor trying to coax Humphrey to eat…  But let me go back 12 hours.

We were about to eat our evening meal when Humphrey arrived. I assumed he would be hungry because I hadn’t seen him most of the day and he’d turned up his nose at the food I offered.  As I walked past him I looked down and noticed some red on his left back paw.

Thinking he’d walked into something in the garden I started to check it out and discovered that not only did he have red on his paw, but also dripping down from his bottom!  Blood.  Oh no – what this time.

Meals left on the table to go cold while we tried to clean him up and find out what had happened.  Most unhappy to have his bottom wiped where we found bloody stuff on his bottom.  Not entirely sure even now what he’d done but we kept him in overnight.  Very fussy again about eating all day yesterday though he was persuaded to have some fish.

Towards the afternoon he seemed more himself and this morning back to normal.  I guess it must have been another spat with an intruder though we hadn’t heard any fighting.

There’s never a dull moment.