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Post Your Pet Pics #2 (DON'T QUOTE PICS!)
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Meet Hibachi.
She is a rescue, we found her on a 4 lane highway in Clemson, right in front of the easement to a set of shops during lunch rush (we were going to the Sushi/Hibachi place, in that plaza). She was just flopping around on the ground, in our lane, like she was just plopped there. We thought her front right leg was broken but no, it's apparently permanent nerve damage, it still gets circulation etc. but she will never be able to walk on it or do much more than move the shoulder of it around for balance and she seemingly has no sense of pain in it whatsoever, so we have to maintain her pads for her so they don't crack and bleed, she won't do it herself. We still have no clue how she injured it exactly but presumably she snagged it paw on something and freaked. We don't see any actual indication she was struck by a car or anything and neither did 3 separate vets.
Our regular vet got one good look at her a few weeks later and recognized the coat as belonging to a regular patient of theirs, Sushi, an older cat who lives in the woods behind the same plaza :pac:
It was really heartbreaking, it's hard to convey in photo but she's a tripod, and for the first couple weeks she struggled to get around, would just flop to the ground to jump down from somewhere head/chest first, and push litter around with her nose - really pitiful, gut punching stuff really. We worried we would have to amputate her and are still worried about her gaining any weight, especially if/when she gets spayed. She's much more capable now, though, than she was, allaying our worst fears, she will spiral up and down the furniture with 3-legged grace and speed to eat houseflies etc. - she still flops forward at things to pounce, which has never not been hilarious. She seems well tuned to having the limp noodle now, for balance sake, so no amputation needed really it turns out.
Here she is with Captain, my fiance's oldest, whom she's bonded with really well. The type of vocal boi who will protest at you, and understand what you mean, when you tell him no he can't go outside right now. Hibachi has learned to be very vocal around the other 3, and has all manner of little chirps, growls, meows, and trills to convey her mood and demands for chicken scraps or a share of milk:
This is her with my oldest, Sif, who is an absolute loaf unit, and clearly comes from dominant Russian Blue stock, a very rich coat that is soothing to pet but sheds everywhere, and the poor chonk is too fat to groom her own butt, but try she will, and cry bloody murder if we do anything to throttle the food supply:
And finally Muffin, the ragamuffin we chose to adopt the year before Hibachi flopped in front of us, being an absolute flufflord void. Of all our cats she's almost entirely non-vocal, except when meowing down the hall with a sense of utter distress if she doesn't know where you are or she demands play, usually crying around with a rat toy in her gob. Instead when excited she does little fox jumps and wags her head back and forth like a dogs tail, her actual tail goes into twitching conniptions:
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