About a week and a half ago, Minnie Pearl came into the house favoring her left front foot. I picked her up and looked at it but could see nothing. I thought that perhaps she had bruised her little paw on the rocks around my house. She didn't seem to be bothered too much by her foot; she just limped a little.However, Saturday morning I was sitting at the computer and heard this mournful cat cry. I thought that someone had dropped a kitten near my house, and it had found its way to my door. I looked out, but it wasn't a kitten; it was Minnie Pearl. When I opened the door for her, she hopped in on three legs. Her front left leg was held in the air. She looked so very pitiful. I picked her up, for I thought that she might have been hit by a car or that my blue heeler had played too roughly with her. I could feel nothing unordinary and there were no broken places in the skin that I could see. She was in such pain! When my son, the nursing student, awoke, I asked him to check her out. He found that it wasn't in her foot or leg, but in her shoulder that the pain was centralized. I called the vet, but the office in Vienna doesn't have an xray machine. They advised that I take her to the Anna office for the xray. Hubby drove, and poor Minnie cried and panted the entire trip while I baby talked, wrung my hands, and sweated bullets !The vet was so very nice and gentle with Minnie. Upon close examine, the vet found a small bite above Minnie's elbow(I can call it an elbow, can't I?). It had become infected and was very painful for her. The vet gave her two shots, one for pain and the other an antibiotic. She also gave me amoxicillin that I must give her twice a day--every 12 hours. Minnie was much relieved on the way home. She didn't cry or pant, but rested peacefully on her good side.Giving her the medicine has been somewhat of a chore. Minnie has all of her claws--every one of them on all four feet! Finally, after having been punctured many times, I wrapped her in a towel to squirt the medicine down her goozle. That has worked very well, for my wounds have begun to heal rather nicely. Today, I have seen remarkable improvement in her condition. She is beginning to put more weight upon her foot and no longer hops like Chester on Gunsmoke.

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