Hi everyone, Dr. Uri here and I'm with Lancelot today, now a couple weeks ago
I released a video talking about names you can call your cat and during that video
I mentioned that there's a story behind Lancelot's name and I got a couple hundred comments asking for me to tell that story
So today I will tell you the story of how Lancelot earned his name
through val.. valorous deeds in the clinic
But before we get going, I'm gonna apologize to you guys for the floating silver globe in the front of your screen
I don't have a lapel mic today. So
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Just
Ignore the silver globe in the front of the screen
All right, so the story of Lancelot. So Lancelot's story starts with a girl crying in a reception area about
Nine years ago
Because her cat just won't stop peeing everywhere
She had this beautiful
fluffy
Black-and-white young cat and her parents told her that she's got to get rid of him because he just would pee on her blankets pee
on her pillows pee on her clothes
She was in tears, didn't know what to do. So the clinic took her in. We'll adopt him
We'll try to find him a new home and we... now I just want to say this
Cats never pee out of the litter box without a good reason and usually that reason is really easy to find, diagnose, and treat
now Lancelot here is probably one of two, maybe three cases in the last decade that I've seen where
Inappropriate urination could not be helped
You know
Every rule has its exceptions and right here. We're looking at one of them
so
Lancelot went through three or four foster homes after this
So we kept trying to give away to people, people thought he looked adorable and he's so sweet
they'd take him home and then they bring him back to the clinic a week later saying we just can't put up with this
He's just peeing all over the place. Now, It's important to note that this time, his name was Lucifer
Now, don't ask me who names their cat Lucifer, but it's his original name when he came to us was Lucifer
So after three or four times of being brought back from adoptive homes
Lucifer was kind of running out of options, you know, we tried every single treatment out of the book, you know pheromones, diet modification,
different types of litter, anti-anxiety medications nothing would stop this cat from peeing on blankets of
People he liked and he would pick the people who you liked the most and pee on their clothes their blankets
Now the rescue we worked with at the time, the cat rescue, they said well
Maybe it's time to send it to the farm and we're not talking about sending to the farm in a gangster style
That actually had a farm in which they rehoused cats who were considered non adoptable
Now this is around the time that I took over the clinic and I just looked at him and I thought you know
He's so sweet and so fluffy. I can't really see him living on a farm
You know, he's just too beautiful to be to be out in the woods somewhere fending for himself
So I said alright he can live in our clinic and be our clinic cat
So that's how Lucifer came to live in the clinic and of course
He started peeing around the clinic until we figured out that if you just put a towel in his kennel overnight
He'll very happily pee on that towel and nowhere else
So we had this cat living in the clinic
And we just put a towel in his kennel and he'd pee on it overnight and in the morning
We throw in a washing machine and the rest of the day he'd wander around the clinic
you know supervising the reception staff, checking out the doctor's office, being a usual little fluffy easygoing self
and just be a really good little man
So really weird, but that's him and not long after he started living in the clinic one of our technicians, Mr
NJ, was working in a kennel with a really stressed out cat and this cat was
Growling and hissing at him and I think he was reaching into the kennel
Trying to change his blankets or give it a food dish or something
Next thing, you know
Lancelot is scrambling off his back claws out growling and hissing and he leaps into the kennell and just
Blocks, you know just protecting.
Mr. NJ from this angry cat and of course the cat's try to have a go at each other and
Mr. NJ separating them. In the end of the day
He ended up getting clawed by both cats and both Lancelot and the other cat were completely fine
We just realized that Lancelot was trying to protect us against this
Stressed out hissing growling cat and this happened again
And again as you can imagine in a vet clinic, we occasionally get cats who are not super happy to be here
They're kind of stressed. They'll growl they'll hiss and next thing, you know
You have just imagine, imagine this guy seven kilograms of cat, claws out climbing up your back
While you're trying to work with our well you already trying to work with a stress of cat which requires a certain amount of caution
so
It is his valiant attempts to protect us from angry cats
Were a little bit misguided, but very much appreciated and we all decided
That you know Lucifer is just not a good name for a cat, but we think this guy's name should definitely be Lancelot
He's a very very noble protector
We also decided that we gonna lock him out front
So he can't get into the back of the clinic when we're working was stressed out cats, to this day
Whenever we have a stressed cat come to the clinic
we always find out what Lancelot is and either lock him up in his kennel or
Set him out front to reception so that he can't protect us and draw blood in the process
So that's the story of how Lancelot earned his name, maybe a little bit misguided but very well-meaning
and
We'll occasionally still forget or
Misplace him when we're working and the cat and we just hear this kind of growl coming from the floor and then somebody's very quickly
Rushing Lancelot out to the reception's but no one gets climbed and then we don't get rescued from our patients
now
After Lancelot lived here for a couple years
one of our staff members who really fell in love with him decided to give him a chance at a new home
And she took him home
She did her best
Then she brought him back one morning roughly a week later saying
Lancelot pooped on my pillow
Not only did he pee on all her stuff, which and only her stuff nobody else is in her household
He finally pooped on her pillow just as a way of saying. I love you
And that was the end of that and since then he has pooped a few times on the scrubs
Of a staff member and in somebody's shoes recently
Only of the people he really loves
Besides
Protecting us from our patients Lancelot has another claim to fame and that's that he's been our blood donor for the last eight years
it's one of the ways he's paid his room and board and
This little dude. He's a perfect blood donor. He's really easygoing
He's a big cat. He's got lots of blood to spare. He's quite healthy
So he's actually donated blood a couple times a year for different cases that we've had to run
So this little man has saved a fair number of cat lives with his generous, generous donation
So that's another reason why he earns his noble title a Sir Lancelot
Because he's actually saved cat lives by donating blood which was very much appreciated by the cats, their owners, and us alike
My father who's a writer is actually currently working on a children's book
loosely set on Lancelot life where we might might leave the part about him pooping people's shoes out of it, but
I'll let you guys know when it's finished and I hope you will check it out, but I don't know when that's gonna be
So we all appreciate Lancelot, but he's certainly got a very misguided a way of showing his affection
Well, I hope you enjoyed the story of Lancelot's life and
Hopefully, there'll be a few more chapters to it. He's certainly a very heroic cat living with us in the clinic
Very very very good little man
except, except for the
You know peeing on blankets and shoe pooping incidents that luckily don't happen too often
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