So we're on our way home from Gifu
We wi-- have a hotel in Gifu City tonight to stay at
And on the way back from
the old village Hida
we found this cat on the EXPRESSWAY!
Umm...
WARNING! This is pretty graphic.
Umm, you may want to look away.
So...
This cat has been...
...pretty...
...pretty badly injured.
This is her tail, but, as you can see, it's healed up.
This cat has survived. It doesn't seem to be in a lot of pain any more.
She was really scared at first... Umm, actually, I don't know if it's a "he" or a "she" yet.
I can't tell, and I don't want to bother her back end too much right now.
She was eating a tanuki
roadkill when we found her
umm, "tanuki" is "racoon"
She'd found some roadkill and she was trying to chew some stuff off the bones
and she was very frightened but
She's obviously domesticated because she let me get close to her and she let me pick her up
and for most of the trip here to this rest stop, where we are right now,
she's been sitting here sleeping and purring on my lap
*gently* Hey...
So, we decided that we're going to change our plans,
and while we were going to stay in Gifu City tonight,
umm, our next day was actually in Aichi anyway, which is where we live, so
we're just going over to Aichi tonight.
And Jun and I are going to stay at our apartment.
And, umm, Chris and Mo are going to stay near us
And first thing tomorrow morning we're going to take her to the vet
because, umm, there are no vets open this late at night and
Obviously, since her tail is healed over, it seems like she's been like this for a while.
Umm, she wasn't limping. She wasn't in pain when I picked her up or anything,
so I think she'll be fine until the morning when we can get her to a vet.
But...
That's what we're going to do. We're going to take her to the vet first thing in the morning
and wait to see what he has to say.
She's going to need some
surgery obviously. I'm sure he's going to want to do some X-rays to see what's going on,
if there's been any other damage.
She's obviously got...
She's sick right now.
We'll probably have to do a blood test to make sure she doesn't have something like feline HIV
Uhh... It's a mess, so... *sad laugh*
She's...she's very stinky. She's very, very dirty and matted.
Umm, it's really hard to tell with the light right now.
Sorry, this is the best I have
Oh, she's licking my leg.
But she seems...she seems okay.
like, she was licking me the whole way here and purring and...
So, she's obviously domesticated.
We just stopped here and got her a little bit of food.
Umm, I don't want to feed her too much
in case she hasn't eaten in a while.
She doesn't seem, like, overly skinny, so...
She may have been doing okay for herself,
or she may have
wandered away from someone's house not too long ago
but we fed her some, umm, a little bit of sausage
which she was very, very happy to eat!
It was hard to keep it out of her
but I tried not to give her too much, just to avoid upsetting her stomach.
Umm, and we'll see how she doos...
...how she does...tonight.
And, umm, I'm not sure what to do about her.
We'll see what the vet says,
but, umm, yeah, obviously she's going to need some surgery and stuff.
At least to remove the tip of her tail.
...and it's probably going to cost quite a bit,
So, we may try to do a small fundraiser to...
...to...to take care of that
...umm, since that will be...
...it's probably going to cost quite a bit to...
get her back on her feet.
But she seems like a sweetheart and...
we couldn't just leave her there on the expressway.
She was...she was just walking across the road
when we saw her and
Jun...*laugh* Mo and I made Jun stop.
We went out and got her.
Umm...
I know you're not supposed to stop on the expressway, but...
We were careful, and there wasn't too much traffic, fortunately.
It was pretty easy to get her.
I hope you're going to do okay!
Yeah, baby, yeah!
Poor thing...poor thing...
What a mess.
'Kay, so this is the kitty we picked up.
We set her up with --
-- oh gosh...
*cat grumble*
Ooohhh...
You poor thiiiing....
We set her up with Hina's old bed
and some food and water. She's eaten most of the food,
she drank a lot of water, and
we don't have our litter here because it's with Haku.
It's, umm, at Jun's parents' house
but we have this old litter box and
apparently this is some sort of...cat...thing?
Cat pee-absorbing pad?
that hopefully she can use until
we get her to the vet tomorrow
Oh, this poor thing,
she's a mess.
I wanted to try to clean her up a little bit, but I don't want to stress her out too much.
*cat grumbles*
You can see these black spots
this looks like
asphalt, almost...
*sigh*
She's got some matted spots underneath her stomach
with her fur, too, so I'm going to try to trim some of those off.
And I've being trying to at least wipe her down
a little bit; I'm not going to give her a full bath right now.
So, hopefully...I can get her...
feeling a little bit more comfortable, at least.
And, I'll stay out here with her
until we get her to the vet tomorrow.
I keep saying "her." I don't know if it's a girl or a boy, but...
'til we figure it out, it's a "her."
*Rachel makes gentle chucking noises to cat*
Oohhh, poor thing...
Poor, poor thing...