The truth behind Momo's poisoning - a cautionary tale

First of all I have to thank efurrbody for their purrs, prayers, well wishes and visits during my illness. Who says there are no miracles - this is one effected by the Cat Blogosphere and fellow furries and animal lovers.

My SS went around the neighbourhood yesterday afternoon to see if there were any clues that made me so ill. She had searched our garden for mushroom and spiders etc. There was nothing much there. No mushroom at all despite the recent rain and there were only a few webbing spiders. There are 3 adjoining gardens that I frequent regularly. She went and asked those neighbours and had a look at their yards. Nothing in two of them.

The third of the families is quite new and has two little children. They had pesticide treatment to their yard the day before I got sick. They had been told to keep pets away from the area for 2 days. They do not have pets themselves and did not think of telling us (yes, they know me because the children have played with me). Furthermore, the younger child had dropped his bowl of macroni cheese on the edge of the lawn that evening and called me over to eat it. I loved anything made of cheese and licked the whole thing up. The older child was there but the parents were indoors at the time and were not told about the incident.

So presumably that's how I was poisoned. SS will tell the vet tomorrow and see what he has to say about it.

Lastly I have to thank my sissy, Sassy, colleagues at the CCSI and the Zoolatry for make the following graphics for me to cheer me up on my road to recovery.

Photo by Sassy


Card from Opus and Roscoe, Sassy, Ruis and Karl

From Maggy, Zoey and their mom, Ann