After licking out the stitches from where she was spayed, I'm tempted to call the ginger cat Teflon. I tried to put a bit of porous medical tape over the incision, and that only lasted about 5 seconds.... each time I tried. I took her into the vet today, and it was stitched up again, and a lampshade was placed round her neck. That only stayed on because the cat was high on drugs. When I got home from work a very triumphant ginger cat showed me where the evil lampshade had been discarded. I suddenly felt 10 times more tired than I had when I arrived home. Three rounds with the lampshade later, I give up. If she licks them out again, I'll just have real ones put in, then snipped out whenever real stitches are removed. She sure is determined to have her own way! I feel she should be named Boudica or something that means "will of iron" in cat-speak. As it is, the poor dears were named Do-do (the black/white one), and Tigr (the ginger one) and apparently came to those names. I have decided that, due to the white and orange flowers I have blooming in my garden.... their new names are Daisy and Poppy. Daisy already comes to her new name.. Poppy still thinks I'm coming after her with that lampshade thing.
Yours,
-- Jo in Scotland