[Ag-eq] My cat, 2K

[Jewel]

is now 19 years old, I was going to say " having first seen the light of day!" but that, of course, 
is incorrect as kittens as with puppies are born blind, so I shall say took her first breath, around 
September 1999, and having come
into my possession on Jan1st 2000, hence her name.
For her age, she is in very fine fettle, but I noticed, recently, that several of her claws were
forming little hooks which were getting caught up in the blanket of my bed where she spends a good
part of her day, when, that is, she is not sitting on top of the empty cockatiel cage, in the sun,
and once, she got her foot hooked into the wireweave as she prepared to jump up, so, a claw-trimming
trip to the vet was arranged.
The vet told me that, in elderly cats, this was not an uncommon problem as their claws don't retract
as well as they did when younger.
2K took it all in her stride!  First of all, I put her into  a carrying cage that she has never been
in before.  "NO  WORRIES";
then into a car: "NO  WORRIES!;
Into the veterinary clinic: "NO  WORRIES!";
      her claws were trimmed by a child, or young person of that, approximate, age:  "NO  WORRIES!";
and back home again.
Later on, I was sitting in my usual chair, and she came along and nudged me:  something that she,
very, rarely does, and I formed the fanciful idea that she was thanking me and saying how much
better her feet felt now.  I imagine that those claws that she couldn't retract were being pressed
onto the ground/floor at every step she took and it was, at best, uncomfortable, at worst:  even a
little painful!
Shortly, after she had been given to me, she experienced a couple of very significant 2 weeks.
Would the list like to read the story that I wrote about that time.  As it is too long to put up in
one email, I would break it up into several parts, each of which would be, clearly, labelled so that
feliphobics who did not want to read about their pet phobia,would be able to identify it and give it
the old heave-ho without going to the trouble of opening it.

        Jewel