Kate’s Cornucopia: Gato vs Coyote

When we let our cat in this morning, he was moving very slowly and his neck was swollen. Another cat fight with the neighbor’s cat? Not unheard of, however, we’d heard coyote yips and howls two nights ago. I checked on him periodically, but by afternoon Gato had gone into hiding. I feared the worst. At dinner time, we located him and noticed that he was still bleeding. My husband took him into the vet’s office PDQ.

The vet said the wounds were not consistent with a cat fight. The cat had been picked up by the neck/head and shaken and was now severly dehydrated.

Needless to say, Gato is spending the night in the hospital and possibly the weekend. I’ll phone in the morning to find out when our poor old Gato can come home.