Troubling Day

This is a recycled picture from yesterday.  Had something worrying happen when I got home from work.

I opened the back door for Julie to go out and unlike usual Calla didn’t go out.  She was in the living room sort of staring off into space, then she started calling out.  This was odd.  When I picked her up she grabbed at something nearby with her front paws (a cat bed) and held on for a good time.  She started calling out again, an even louder then sort of twisted herself up and made a very strange sound.  I put her down, and she partly fell over, like one of her front legs wasn’t right.

This was scary, but after I put her in a little nest on the couch she seemed to be all right.  She still tended to stare off, but when I fed her some treats she got up on her paws all right.  Later she jumped down and sat in her hammock bed where she is now.  She might have a bit of a fever – her nose is warm and dry.  Her eyes look ok.  Since then, she just seems tired but otherwise normal.

So a bit later, I was distracted from my fussing over Calpurnia by some cries from Gus.  He had been hovering around for a while and then went off.  I looked at him, and he was half standing up, staggering sideways with his tail sticking out at right angles, trying not to fall over.   I picked him up and he was stiff at first, but relaxed fairly quickly and started purring.  When I let him down, he seemed OK, and after a little rest on a rug has been acting normally ever since, walking here and there without any other issues.

Coincidence?  My current theory is that Calla is a bit sick, and possibly is dizzy.  Perhaps Gus had a cramp.  I had a cat once that got a bit of paralysis in her hips and this doesn’t seem the same as that.

Nothing seems odd about Julie, thank goodness.

P.S.  Calla just trotted from the hammock bed across the room normally.  She looked a bit sluggish climbing into another bed over there, but otherwise normal.