Poor Stevie

So we started off the morning teasing Stevie about being too tired to get off the couch to say goodbye to us as we bussled off to work. Rough life he leads! But when Trev and I both came home for lunch, Stevie was still on the couch...now some of you might say, sounds like a normal cat, but not Steve, oh no. He is a go-getter, explore the world then take a nap kind of guy, so this behavior kind of caught us off guard.

I went over to him to see if he was okay and it looked like he was favoring a paw and then on closer inspection I found the cause of his "laziness"...he had a puncture wound on his front leg. He was holding it up and couldn't put any weight on it, he even fell on his face when I set him down to see if he could walk!

We rushed him over to our nice vet really quickly to get his prognosis and it turns out he may have been in a cat fight last night (now, I know that was no fault of his, there are a lot of bullies in the neighborhood!) The big mean bully cat bit Stevie's paw which has a nasty cut and is now swollen to twice the size of his other one! Poor little guy. On a good note, all the nurses there kept complimenting Stevie on how cute and well behaved he was!

Check out how big his right paw is compared to his left! : (

But he did get Pepto-Bismoesque antibiotics, so hopefully he will be on the mend soon!

And on a very important side note, please read this shirt.
I think this is an important message that we should get out there, thank you GareeLynn!

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