• melbaboutown@aussie.zone
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    1 month ago

    Fed the kitty this morning and we went back to bed, cuddling sweetly… she stretched her arm, dropped it and punctured a single secretly sharp claw into my eyelid like a fishhook.

    After a delay of refusing to get up it was washed with antibacterial hand soap and dabbed with Betadine so fingers crossed. I have a spare box of antibiotics ready to go.

    But yeah, that was literally half a centimetre from my actual eye.

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      That makes me feel sick because I can’t have anything go near my eye ( like I can’t wear contacts because I freak out about it )

      My painful cat encounter story is, I was trying to save someone’s cat in a tree so I climbed way up and grabbed it.

      It got scared and wriggled and thrashed around so much that it fell…almost. It managed to hook a single claw into my forearm and was just hanging there…stretching my skin.

      I could only freak out and scream and shake it off. Of course it landed on its feet and just sauntered away.

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      Yup, they’ll do that. Cerys sliced my left nipple in half once.

      Keep an eye on that shit. Uh. Pun unintended

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        I clip her claws but she always secretly sharpens just a single one so I don’t notice. It’s her stiletto.

        Wondering about those colourful nail caps but they seem like they’d cause distress

        Edit: And yes, I’m watching it because litterbox paws and will start the box of antibiotics that’s on hand if anything changes. It would be a nasty spot for an infection