Park Flooding, Garage Cat Ill

 Gigi is ill.  I hadn't seen her for a few days.  She belongs to the neighbors behind me but they don't care for her at all.

Finally I heard her in the rafters of the garage.  There's plenty of places to curl up and sleep up there, especially atop the second garage bay, that is a room, and has insulation atop it that she sleeps in, to my dismay, since its so toxic and causes her allergic skin reactions.

She came down, ran to me and wanted cuddled, which is not normal for Gigi.  She then ran to eat, and use the litter box in the  garage I have for her for when she's around.   I noticed she had some chin mats and she hates mats, so I went and got the clippers to clip it off.  That's when I noticed a large wet area down farther on her neck just below and to the side of the mat.

It was draining pus.  

Poor baby.  I went and got warm soapy water and cleaned it a few times and clipped the hair off around it.  I was about to use a flashlight and reading glasses to get a better look when she pulled away and went back up into the rafters.  I did my best and hope for the best.

I don't know if she got that fighting with Fritter, the cat abandoned by the asshole owners in the apartment complex.  Or maybe she was scratching at the chin mat and did it to herself, I don't know.   Anyhow, I hope she'll be ok and come down again tomorrow.  At least its draining.

I went to the park today and was rather shocked.   A huge tree, long dead and rotted, that should have been cut down long ago, had crashed down.  I bet there will be more of those in coming days, with the sub freezing weather we're about to get, and maybe snow.

One of the dog walkers I chat with sometimes had pointed out that tree in particular when talking about all the dead trees in the park that could crash down at any moment.  Well, now its down all right.

The dog park parking lot is flooded too.   Oh boy.  I made a little make shift shelter to leave some cat food for the park cats left, and there aren't many left, since where they were fed is under three feet of water now.   I made the shelter from branches I broke off of fallen limbs and ivy.  Wasn't much, but better than nothing.  We're having a relentlessly wet and icky winter here.

Now its going to go sub freezing on us here and any standing water will be frozen water by Sunday night, at the latest and probably stay frozen water clear through the first week of January or longer.  It won't be pretty the next ten days, starting Sunday.  Or maybe Christmas day.  Especially not for the animals and birds.

The person I'm dog sitting for returns tomorrow from her vacation.  I can't wait.   I like the dog, nice dog, but the time there means many added hours to each day, to then also keep up on all the work I normally have to do.   But its all over tomorrow thank goodness.

As usual, the biggest danger from freezing weather after wet weather will be bad drivers and falling trees, besides the intense cold.