I was doing the usual multitasking today, writing a blog entry and three emails, when Orange decides I am not paying him enough attention.  So he waltzed up and plopped down right in front of the monitor.  Since my keyboard is on a slide-out, this wasn't a big deal, and I kept working. 

However, after a couple of minutes with me continuing to type on the computer (I still had the three emails open and the blog article), Orange became very unhappy.  So he jumped down on to the keyboard.  He scampered off just as soon as he did it--like he knew it made me very unhappy.  I lost everything I had written.  Now I will have to do it again.

Orange a few months ago, resting (what he does best!)

Orange is really an affectionate cat.  Just sometimes too affectionate.

Oh well, cats, dogs, horses, chickens, turkeys, peafowl, guineas, and emus are meant to make a person's life interesting.

Orange is helping me with the laundry in his own particular way.  I guess he is pressing the sheets for me....

For several days, we have been concerned over an injury to Junior's side.  I thought at first it was a warble (Cutereba), but there was no singular lump in her side.  It was a closed-over scabby wound at first, with a single circular external lesion.  She would try to clean it off, but wasn't getting very far with it.  With Ronald's help, I managed to clean enough gunk off of it to open it up, and then it drained.

When the skin moved, a great deal of tissue damage could be seen about half an inch behind the opening, as if the skin slid when she was injured.  We set up a vet's appointment, but the cat took off and we had to wait a day to get her in.   She is on the mend now that she is on antibiotics and had it cleaned out.

This is what the injury looks like today:

Closer up, it is easy to see that it is almost a perfect circle:

Since there are no other injuries (such as if she had been in a cat fight, etc.), I believe someone shot Junior with a pellet gun, and the pellet is still in the wound.  It shouldn't hurt her to have it in there now that the infection has been cleaned out.

I wonder which one of my neighbors shot my cat.