Tuesday, April 15, 2008

Guapo!

Wow, its been a while since I last posted..looks like I need to keep better track of this thing!
Anyway, for those of you who are not familiar with the Spanish language "guapo" means good looking or hansome in spanish..This is also the name of the new addition to the family, well Becca and I's family. It's another CAT!!! He is a little bit younger than our previous rescue or adoption how ever you want to look at it. He is about a year old (on the 21st of April) and chip turned a year in March. So not much of an age difference. He is another short hair with kind of the same markings as chip. He is black and white and loves attention, trust me he will let you know if hes not getting enough attention, the meowing seems to never stop with him. We rescued him from the Kalamazoo Animal Rescue with the name Romeo but we decided that would be no longer..obviously..so..

We had our first boo boo less than 24 hours after we got him..and boy was it an expensive one. He started at 12AM meowing constantly every 5 seconds and would not stop! So we opened the door to the rest of the apartment and that stopped him for a whole 10 minutes. He came right back in the bedroom and say on the chest meowing.. So we got Chip out and all they did was hiss and growl at each other. So we closed guapo out into the hallway and kept chip with us.. Finally 20 minutes of sleep..to be interupted with glass breaking. Becca got up and ran to the kitchen to inspect the damage.....no cat... Adam (other roomate) had him in the bathroom with him. I cam out and there was bloody footprints all the way under the bed. I grabbed him noticing blood all over his hind paw and inspected the damage. He had cut the large pad on the bottom of his foot and up between two of his toes. So I wrapped it in a towel held his foot in the air and squeezed it to stop the bleeding. I stopped the bleeding and was going to set him down when it started gushing out again. So we ended up calling the emergency room (for pets) and took him in. Doc said he would need surgery cause it was a sensitive area and he would need deep and superficial stitches...330 dollars later he returned home with his new bright orange cast! What an adventure! I will post a couple pictures of the two studs, when I get them on the computer!