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.

The air conditioning at the Austin Humane Society went out, and with the heat of our Texas summer really hitting, they really need some donations to get it fixed.  The cost to replace the system is going to run around $200,000.  So every little bit helps.