Horrible Experience This Morning

[thewesterngate]

I don't know where to start, as I'm not sure how this happened. My living situation is [horrible] at the moment ever since my second surgery caused me to lose my job. I'll inevitably have more, so in the hope of saving money I decided to take over my mom's house while she's on the road. She hasn't left yet, which means her two large dogs are still here..causing me to have to house my six cats in two big bedrooms.

Three older cats (2-3 years old) are in my herp/rat/invert room, three 1-year old "kittens" in my bedroom. Tilly, my bottle-fed girl, is something of a small terror in the morning so I put her in the snake room to give us a chance to sleep. That was a horrible decision.

The older cats haven't touched a thing, but Tilly single-handedly knocked over two snake bins securely situated on a rack, released my baby female ghost from its closed tub (still snap-locked when I checked it), knocked over two gallon-jugs of water, and then squeezed through the 2-inch gap under the door, and squeezed under my bedroom door to get back to me.

TL;DR - Digitalis, the baby BP, now has several shallow punctures where the cats 'played' with her. I found her right in front of the door the minute I opened it, balled up and scratched. Fortunately the scratches/bites are all superficial..I rinsed and dabbed them all with antibiotic ointment and she's very active and alert. She's otherwise perfect, no facial/eye injuries, no belly damage..but still.

I'm horrified at how destructive this cat was, just to get back to 'her' room..I feel absolutely horrible. It could have been SO much worse for the baby BP, but I'm still in shock and just need to share. I hope that you won't judge me, I just need some support at the moment.