posted 2005/09/04 at 22:46
I don't know if I'd mentioned this earlier, but Spyder (one of the family cats) started developing this weird growth on her neck about a month or so ago. Yesterday we finally got her to the vet, who says that the growth may be cancerous. Given that Spyder's attitude and eating patterns haven't changed, the vet says that if it is cancer it probably hasn't spread anywhere else in her body, but the growth will be removed later this week and biopsied just in case. As if this family didn't have enough going on at this point.
On the subject of cats, obviously the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina is still weighing heavily on my mind. Most of you know that I'm a huge fan of the author Poppy Z. Brite, who until about a week ago lived in New Orleans with her husband and some twenty-five cats (along with a dog and a snake). She and her husband tried to hang on, but they wound up leaving New Orleans at the last minute, and were only able to take two of their pets with them. She's unsure as to whether or not her pets will get rescued in the midst of all that's going on down there right now, but she has asked on her LiveJournal for continued PayPal donations to her cat fund. Here are pictures of her cats and a link so you can PayPal money to her for her pets.
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