Tripod is home

Yesterday I picked up Tripod from the vets to bring him home.  Poor baby, he's wearing the lampshade collar I put on him when I brought him to the vets and boy is he not happy about it! On the way home in the car, I could hear it banging off the cage and then when we got home and I let him out, the dramatic headturning, the pitiful meows, as if to say "what is this thing on me, get it off" it was funny.  So I relented and took it off him and he had a good old grooming session, then food and then started wailing to get out, so I let him outside and he ran around like a mad thing.  After three days stuck at the vets, there's a lot of pent up energy to get rid off. 

My heart was in my mouth worrying the wound would open up again with all the tearing around he was doing and sure enough, when he came back in, there was blood on the wound, but looking into the cage he came home in, there was blood on the newspaper so it happened between the vets and home.  Back on with the collar and he settled down and is doing fine.  I take it off morning and evening so he can have a good groom, which is very important to cats, and eat in comfort. He has to wear it for the next week.  He's taking his antibiotics fine so hopefully all will go according to plan and the wound will heal nicely and there will be no more problems.  The opening occurred right at the bone so I hope that's not going to be a weak spot in the future. Fingers crossed.