Animal Emergency

Panther, our little black, bobtail cat wasn't feeling good yesterday. She was in obvious pain somewhere and Cath took her off to the Vet. Finds out the poor thing has a bladder obstruction and can't pee. She's got a catheter in her now and if she has to have surgery it will be about 200 bucks (not bad actually). Poor Liv is very upset so I put a call in to my Sister who used to be a registered emergency vet tech for alot of years to ask about the cat's condition. Laura called and I had her talk to Liv. Auntie Laura must have said some good things because Liv was feeling a little less down about the situation. Whew!!! Not sure of Panther's status, we will find out. Recently (about 2 months ago) we were adopted by another cat. A long haired, white with orange spots and an orange tail Tom Cat. Cut little guy, still a young cat (I guessitmate his age at about 2 years old). He's very friendly and playful and seems to not mind Panther and she doesn't seem to mind him. When we get her fixed we are thinking of letting this other cat in the house. His name is Pumpkin (Liv named him) because the first time he came around was in October. He the disappeared for a bit, and about 2 months ago he just showed up and hasn't left. Now that we are feeding him, etc he definitely isn't leaving. Found out an interesting thing about Pumpkin last night. We were talking to my neighbor Paul (I was bbqing burgers and he commented that it smelled good and was there one for him) and he saw Pumpkin and he told us that he looked alot like the cat that the previous owners of our house had. Hmmm......I always wondered why the house came with a pet door but no signs of a pet. Makes sense though, I mean why would a cat pick our house out of all the others to take up residence in? My neighbors across the street have about 5 cats and you'd think the cat would go there. Somehow and for some reason he is very comfortable at our house like he's been there before. It's a shame really, that people can just abandon an animal like that. The lady that lived there before us was a single Mom for the longest time. She got together with her son's father years (like a decade or so) after that "one" night and they got married. They lived in the house for awhile but decided to sell it and take an RV across Country. Would explain why they ditched the cat. There is an animal shelter in Wilson County, they could have dropped the little guy off there, but no...all evidence points to abandonment. Yeah I know, it's just a cat, but it was somebody's pet....a beloved member of the family and he got tossed aside like a used paper cup.