There's a feral cat in the area that keeps beating up on Gordon.* We are trying to arrange to trap it and have it fixed, but that's surprisingly hard to do when you don't have access to a car. You can rent a car and get a humane trap (hard to transport on a motorcycle even when empty) , but there is no telling how many days it will take to get the cat in the trap, so you can't just keep the rental car. Once you do get them in the trap, they often freak out and hurt themselves pretty good trying to get out, though, so you need to be able to take the cat to get fixed ASAP -- so you need to have very quick access to a car, because how many taxi drivers do you know of who will transport a spitting-mad caged feral?

But we're going to have to find a way to trap and fix that fucker asap, because we've just had to take Gordon in for his second abscess since we brought him home on Easter Sunday. The first one cost us $350. This one is on the front of his throat, and so requires general surgery. Our poor little guy...

The tab for this vet trip? $1025.


*p.s. Making him an entirely indoor cat is not an option for reasons too many and varied to go into now. But they are good reasons, and impossible to get around.