Cat in a Flap

We have our long awaited conservatory!!! It was a smooth operation from start to finish, builders arrived on the appointed day and did exactly what they were supposed to do in the time scales we were given. Is this a record. They were all polite and charming, nothing to much trouble, consulted us all the time regarding the works and tidied up after themselves. Any-one wanting a conservatory I can recommend Planet conservatory.

What I had not bargained for was a £40 vets bill for a traumatised cat!

Saffy our gorgeous but slightly batty Maine Coone, (do cats take after their owners as well as dogs?) enjoyed having the company of the builders all week as they dug holes, laid bricks and cut pipes. She even very helpfully walked over the newly laid cement floor to check if it was set yet. They also enjoyed her antics, and each evening had a tale to tell of what she had done that day with them.

However erection day was last Friday and suddenly it was not fun any more, a large delivery of glass and frames, lots of banging and lifting of frames over fences and she was off for the duration.
Friday evening when all the builders had left shereturnedd home when she heard my voice, up onto the fence she popped. Well!Iff a cats eyes could pop out of her head in sheer shock and surprise Saffy's did. She froze on the fence at this monstrous growth that had suddenly appeared on the back of her house. It was a case of "what the hell is THAT". She stayed put for at least an hour just watching to see if the monster was safe or not. She eventually hopped down sniffed the door and frantically hopped up onto the other fence. She flatly refused to come into the house through the glass monster for two days. I finally encouraged her in with food, I decided to feed her in the conservatory for a few days so she had good experiences with the scary house. All was going well until Sundat evening she hopped onto the garage roof to investigate the roof of the conservatory, we had just had a shower of rain! She climbed onto the roof of the beast and promptly came skiing down it legs all akimbo until she landed with a plop on the ground. I have not seen anything so funny and undignified as the poor cat flying down the roof, or the expression on her face when she landed. It was pure comedy, she was not hurt in any way, but miaowed at me as if to say "Did you see that? It threw me off".


The upshot is the poor cat gets stress induced cystitis and boy has she got a bad bout. I have two bottles of pills and two bottles of drops for her, my vet is also a homeopathic consultant and recommendedd some homeopathic drops to put on her tongue, a bit like Bach's flower remedies. The problemn is it stresses the hell out of her trying to put the drops on the said tongue! So they go into her food along with her antibiotic, her cranberry extract, and the cystaid ( a pill that is supposed to prevent attacks)amazingly she still gobbles down her food with all these additives.

Ta-shi loves the conservatory and was very interested to stand in it while it was raining, he could not quite work out how, if it was raining all around him why was he not getting wet. Animals are the funniest of things!