Think good thoughts for our poor Maxie.

[Teigan]

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[Nevar]

Aww poor kitty, my thoughts are with him as a fellow pet and cat lover.

[Azzrazzah]

Poor Kitty, I feel for yah.. Here's hoping all comes out well for him

[Saturo]

I hope he gets out of it aswell. Poor little guy.

[Palladiamorsdeus]

Don't worry, he'll come back out of it. A lot of cat's don't take well to spading or neutering. You just have to keep at it. Make sure you pet him at every opportunity, give him little treats now and then, so on and so fourth. Shy cats are especially hard to work with, since they like to hide as far up under things as kittily possible. Our cat Sable is like that. She won't go anywhere near other people until she's gotten used to them, and will go out of her way to crawl under anything to get away. Unfortunately, she is very small, so that can make finding her very interesting.......

Here is an amusing anecdote for you. Just recently a good friend of mine found a little kitten on the side of the highway. He was pure black, and scared to death. She asked me if we could care for him and me, being the pansy I am, said yes. I'd say about the first week, this kitten STAYED under my bed. I'd leave food on the edge, and he'd come up to eat, then dive back down the second he thought some one was coming. Finally he'd start to come out and ask for attention.

And then he got used to me.

Let me say that this is not, in anyway, a shy kitten. I thought he was at first, but then the little monster began to attack anything and everything that moved. If it was in my room, it was in danger of tiny claws pawing at it at random points in time. Then the little bugger, dubbed Shadow, would flop down by my side and purr loudly until I petted him. And if I didn't, then he'd find my hand, and bite me until I did.

I am in NY at the moment, and Shadow is with my family down in NC, but this little ball of terror is endlessly amusing. They've affectionately nicknamed him 'Nightmare' because he just doesn't quit. As my father describes him, he leaps before he looks, and if he doesn't have a place to land then well, he makes one!

So keep at it! The shy ones like that can be really hard to work with, but being an inside cat really helps. He was probably shy before hand, and that kind of treatment, especially when they are young, makes it hard for them to be trusting.

[Teigan]

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[Tahlian]

Glad to hear Maxie's improving. Sometimes coming out of anesthesia can do funny things to animals...maybe that's what happened to him. Just tell him to take it easy for a few days and he'll be fine before you know it.