{"id":38795957,"date":"2005-04-02T12:23:38","date_gmt":"2005-04-02T12:23:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.casey.com\/2005\/04\/adding-insult-t.html"},"modified":"2013-04-11T02:59:22","modified_gmt":"2013-04-11T02:59:22","slug":"200504adding-insult-t-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/2005\/04\/02\/200504adding-insult-t-html\/","title":{"rendered":"Adding Insult to Injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a long Friday for our kitty Spaz.  Last night he came in after midnight all scraped up, and <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.casey.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/04\/kitty_contender.html\">I presumed<\/a> he had been in a cat fight.  But today it was clear he suffered more than just scrapes, as he spent the whole day on the floor, unable to stand up.<\/p>\n<p>At the vet this afternoon they confirmed that the fight Spaz had lost was more likely versus a car, and X-rays revealed a broken pelvis to go along with the &#8216;road rash&#8217; scrapes.  Fortunately the location of the break called for a restful self-recovery, rather than surgery.  Two months lying in a box, <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.casey.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/03\/cat_napping.html\">previous<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.casey.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/03\/cat_out_of_the.html\">history<\/a> tells me Spaz will handle this well.<\/p>\n<p>Since Spaz was already sedated for his X-rays, the Vet asked if I wanted to go ahead and take the opportunity to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Castration#Castration_In_Veterinary_Practice\">neuter<\/a> him.  &#8220;Go for it&#8221;, I instructed, &#8220;He&#8217;s having a bad day already.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ve got eight lives left cat, but no more balls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a long Friday for our kitty Spaz. Last night he came in after midnight all scraped up, and I presumed he had been in a cat fight. But today it was clear he suffered more than just scrapes, as he spent the whole day on the floor, unable t&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38795957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fridaycatblogging"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3mOvc-2CMBf","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38795957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38795957"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38795957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":173354572,"href":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38795957\/revisions\/173354572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38795957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38795957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38795957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}