On the Cooper issue, Pa Aeroplane has a proper bruiser of cat, an ex-stray/feral-ish brute, whose fighting instinct was so strong that even castration and a loving home barely tamed it. He actually IS a prick (bruiser, not Pa), so most of their neighbours’ cats stay well away, except for the one who can’t resist a scrap and comes around looking for old bruiser.
Anyway, bruiser has often got bites or scratches, and he’s only got about 5/8ths of a pair of ears these days, so I’m not particularly fazed by the injury aspect of that pic of Cooper - although I wouldn’t have put it online myself. The thing is, when you’ve got a cat like that, you’ve not only got to stay on top of flea and worm treatments (the proper vet-consult-and-prescription ones) but also the grooming. Decent grooming is super important for a fighty cat, because when the cat inevitably has a wound, it’s impossible to monitor its healing or clean it - or know when you’ve got to cart the little prick down to the vet to get antibiotics - if you can’t gently push aside the fur to check how any wound doing. So the lack of grooming means Jack is terrible as usual. And if Cooper is unneutered then in my opinion she’s even more terrible, there’s just no excuse for not getting him done. Especially as the vet nearest her is good and not extortionately priced.
Anyway I’m personally dying to hear her take on Southend Council yet again having a change of political leadership; if leadership is even an appropriate word to use in the context of Southend’s local democracy, which is endlessly a shitshow and really does the town no favours. She’s a political blogger after all, isn’t she? That’s what she said the other day.
