Me and "Mr. Jones"

Our blooming Orchids
(we also like blooming onions from "Outback"!)

For the past few days I’ve noticed that someone has been throwing up in the garage. We have three cats who sleep out there: Mr. Creme, Toby and Debby.

Since Toby is confined to one area because of his disability, I assumed that Mr. Creme was the one who was vomiting.

Mr. Creme is 10 years old and will be 11 in March, so he is due his “senior blood panel test”. It is a thorough blood test that will tell us if his kidneys, liver, etc. are normal. When cats get older, sometimes their kidneys or liver start to malfunction.

Toby, Mr. Creme’s brother, is also 10. He was due his Rabies shot so we were also going to take him in at the same time.

Charlie brought the carrier in and left it open for a few minutes while he went to gather Mr. Creme and Toby. When he got them, he put them in the carrier together and we were off.

When we got to the vet’s office, we checked in and they took us to a room. The technician wanted to take Mr. Creme and weigh him. When Charlie opened the carrier, he started laughing. “Jonesie, what are you doing in there!”

Yes, Jonesie was in the carrier with Mr. Creme and Toby. Apparently he had gone in while it was open. Charlie had stuffed the cats in without seeing Jonesie. It was so funny. Here was this little guy in the back of the carrier behind these big cats. He was just sitting there.

The technician, Jenny, was so tickled. She met Jonesie last week when he was in for an exam and shots and remembered him.

She took Mr. Creme out to weigh and brought him back. Then Dr. Henderson came in. Jenny had already told the story of our little stow away, Jonesie.

Dr. Henderson examined Mr. Creme and then took him, Toby, (and Jonesie) back for shots and a blood test for Mr. Creme. Of course, she said she would not do anything to Jonesie! He was just along for the ride.

When we went up to the front desk, word had gotten around about our little blonde stow away. They were all laughing about it. That little Jonesie is full of surprises.

Mr. Creme and Jonesie
(if I didn't know better, I'd think they might be related.......)

First thing this morning we got a call from Dr. Henderson. Mr. Creme’s blood work came back just fine. For an almost 11 year old, all 15 pounds of him are in good health....as far as we know by blood work.

I will confine Debby to her area to see if she’s the one who is vomiting. If it’s her, we will have to think of how to get her to the vet. She is afraid of being handled. We’re still working on her. She does love to be petted, but not picked up.

Mr. Creme has never had his teeth cleaned and Dr. Henderson said he needed it. We will take him back for that next month.

Today the cable guy came to make some upgrades in our cable system. Since Jonesie isn’t really afraid of strangers, I brought him upstairs to my computer room and closed the door. I didn’t want the cable guy to get back to his office, open his tool box and out jumped Jonesie!

Come to think of it, Jonesie would make a good little P.R. cat for the cable company.

Jonesie the Cable Guy

More later.........