The Scotsman and the Bandit
Unlike the movie this one involved a very hairy cat who had
settled into heaving up a hairball at 3am every morning ... messy, noisy and
probably painful for him and an aging motorhome.
We have had the cat shaved in the past and as you see he has
been quite hirsute for the last couple of years.
We contacted our local vet here in Barrie and scheduled the
old puss for a shave and because he has to be sedated to do that (cat with
attitude) had the vet look at his teeth as well ... something you also don’t
want to do when the Bandit is awake.
On Tuesday the 2nd we took him over to the vet in
the afternoon as it is an overnight deal because of the being put out and they
want to watch him for the evening.
We had a nice relaxing day on Wednesday as we waited to hear
from the vet. After noon he called to say that the Bandit had one abscessed
tooth and another broken one ... and that he would remove the really bad one,
but that everything else was great and the cat minus five pounds of hair was
doing well.
Late afternoon on Wed we picked up the now naked kitty and paid
the $1000 for his bail. Cute tummy eh.
OK. Cat sleeps all night and then we launch into the Scotsman part. We are up at 0530 (reveille anyone) and get the bus over to the Hitch House at 8am to get the broken awning replaced. Let’s see Bandit back into his carrier (no kitty we are not going back to the veterinary sleepover place), leave the bus and motor down the road to kill 8 hours of repair time.
So we decided to park the cat at Rick’s apartment and grabbed Jo’s dad and took him to lunch at a new place here called the Cottage Canoe. Quite good for a fast food joint and some different menu items. Actually the quesadillas were nice as was the Philly cheese steak wrap which we shared with some ok house merlot.
Dropped the old guy off and picked up Bandit and headed back to the RV garage at
about 3 where the Flying Scotsman was waiting patiently for us to pay the $1500
bail to get it back home ... expensive theme going on here, eh. For you RV
folks out there, without the extended warrantee the bill would have been over
$4000 for the awning but they picked up the rest ... expensive shade.
Needless to say the ol guys, including feline, slept well
that night!
