Orange Tabby...He Stays and His Name is Finn (Update with Videos Dec 31)

[TropicalBabies]

Finn is still with us. Today, I gave him food he asked for, but he walked away without taking a bite, sticking out his tongue. I saw something black on it and while my husband held him (more like wrestled him!), I pried open his mouth. There was a beetle attached to his tongue! I think it as a Japanese Beetle, hard to tell, but I dont know of anything else like it and we have an infestation now. One of its legs was embedded into his tongue and it was really hard to pull off. Good grief, what a crazy thing to happen! No idea how it happened because he's too blind to actually hone in on something that tiny to catch it. Maybe it was on some grass he was chewing on, who knows? And I thought chickens found new and ingenious ways to get into trouble, sheesh. Finn wins that one.

Glad you caught that one. Good eye!
Silly Finn ♡♡♡

 

[Cebarmlds]

@speckledhen I've finally finished the Finn thread, it has been a great and sometimes scary read I've been a cat lover since I was a young child and held my first purring kitty.
I have an orange tabby named Barney, he is 18 yrs old. He has kidney disease and is very thin, but he refuses to give up.
We send love and hugs to Finn

 

[speckledhen]

@speckledhen I've finally finished the Finn thread, it has been a great and sometimes scary read I've been a cat lover since I was a young child and held my first purring kitty.
I have an orange tabby named Barney, he is 18 yrs old. He has kidney disease and is very thin, but he refuses to give up.
We send love and hugs to Finn

Aw, thanks! Sending my best to Barney as well. He's a well-loved old man, I know.

 

[speckledhen]

We are really worried about Finn. Today, it was getting late and we always get him in by about 5 p.m. since he can't see well. He was evading capture and acting strangely. He was running around through the leaves, up and down the bank with us trying to surround him and risk getting hurt on the slopes. He'd stop to pee/poop, then apparently didn't because he didn't cover it up as usual, then he'd run away and meow the entire time. He even scooted under a storage barn, which is very low to the ground and I had to use the hose to encourage him out again. He is just acting oddly. I dont think he feels good at all. He will be here 11 years the first week of November, and because he was about a year and a half old, per vet, when he got here, he's about 12 1/2 now. We may have to take him to the vet. He's been eating fine. We have some of that hairball stuff you squeeze into his mouth so we'll at least do that; can't hurt, might help.
I hope he's okay, but at least we finally got him to go back in the house and he's curled up in his box (low sides, small quilt for comfort) under the side table in the living room.

 

[N F C]

We are really worried about Finn. Today, it was getting late and we always get him in by about 5 p.m. since he can't see well. He was evading capture and acting strangely. He was running around through the leaves, up and down the bank with us trying to surround him and risk getting hurt on the slopes. He'd stop to pee/poop, then apparently didn't because he didn't cover it up as usual, then he'd run away and meow the entire time. He even scooted under a storage barn, which is very low to the ground and I had to use the hose to encourage him out again. He is just acting oddly. I dont think he feels good at all. He will be here 11 years the first week of November, and because he was about a year and a half old, per vet, when he got here, he's about 12 1/2 now. We may have to take him to the vet. He's been eating fine. We have some of that hairball stuff you squeeze into his mouth so we'll at least do that; can't hurt, might help.
I hope he's okay, but at least we finally got him to go back in the house and he's curled up in his box (low sides, small quilt for comfort) under the side table in the living room.

Keep us posted, hope he's ok

 

[speckledhen]

Keep us posted, hope he's ok

Thanks, Debby, I sure hope so. My husband is going to be beside himself when we lose that cat.

 

[N F C]

Thanks, Debby, I sure hope so. My husband is going to be beside himself when we lose that cat.

That will be hard. Fingers crossed that doesn't happen for a good long time