Savannah - Monday/Tuesday report

I got to see Savannah on Monday, and she was WALKING! This may not seem like a big deal but it's really the first time we'd seen her walk around. They moved her to a bigger cage on the floor and when we opened it she came out to greet us (kinda). This was a big improvement, and the staff was all very happy with her progress. She was also talking - in a cat way - mewling when she didn't get her way and hissing at, well, everything. She has a lot of stiffness in her back legs due to sitting in a cage for two weeks, but she was moving. Didn't like to be touched back there, though.

Of course, now that she has some freedom she doesn't like to be contained, so she'd walk around and hiss at the other animals, and would hiss and mewl (furiously or plaintively, depending) whenever she was thwarted in any way. Since there are places she shouldn't be going and things she shouldn't be getting into, this happened a lot. The staff says that's her "showing her calico", which means nothing to me as I've never had a cat. Are calicos always this temperamental?

Dr. Bob mentioned as she was walking around that he'd probably end up having to have her back in after all of the current work was done to do other work on her. Poor cat's going to be worked over from one end to the other.

Tuesday I couldn't go see her because I had to work, but Heather did. She came home very upset, saying it "was the worst visit yet!" Apparently Savannah cried when she had to leave, which had Heather in tears as well. This cat needs to come home yesterday, if not sooner.

They did have about an hour together, though. Savannah sat in her lap, purred, kneaded her legs and arced into her hands. At one point she even tried to roll over for her, although I guess that didn't work out too well.

On a side note, she has some motion in her jaw now. With the bolts and wiring and such, it has a limited range of motion, and she's set up so that when she opens and closes her jaw it moves along a rod-type thing that looks like a piston - makes her look like Cyber-kitty. Funny and sad at the same time.

Still no word on when she's coming home. We should find out today what the specialist had to say yesterday, I hope. I'll make sure to get some pictures of her walking around, too!