Cat

We'll be taking this little fluffball to the animal hospital shortly, to have them look at a nasty-looking and foul-smelling wound that we don't know how he got. Wish him luck, please?

Cat update

The vet said it's probably an infected and rupturing boil in an anal gland. Which seems about as fun as it sounds like (while the vet was prodding it, he tried to claw someone for the first time in his twelve-year life). They're keeping him until tonight, so they can clean it out and treat it under general anesthetic. Then he'll have to eat antibiotics for a while, and wear one of those always popular lampshades around his head.

On the good side, this is apparently a fairly common problem for this breed of cat, and it usually turns out well.