Creamer van Gough [aka EWWW ] part 2

I was going to the vet to retrieve Fluff...
then I saw Creamer...
and couldn't believe my eyes...



she had lost the top of her ear on Weds...
and yesterday I thought the top of the other ear looked a little funky...



now, it was gone...
not in one big piece like the other...
but gone just the same...

she looked like she'd stuck her head in a lawn mower...

so since she also was still having diarrhea issues...
I took her with me to see the vet...

my vet was stumped...

he even brought out one of his big textbooks...
on "Diseases of the Cat"...
and he showed me what it kinda looked like...
but I agreed that it wasn't the same disease...
just "kinda looked like it"...

it was a form of skin cancer...
one of our cats on the ranch had...
it generally presents in cats...
with white/pink ears or nose...
who get lots of sunshine...

Creamer is black...
and doesn't go outside...
she doesn't even like to sun herself...



he was thrilled to discover that I had kept the ear tip I found...
and sent me home with a specimen jar to collect it for him...



here you see it floating in a jar of formalin...
I'll drop it off tomorrow before FFers...

Creamer is staying so he can try to treat the diarrhea...
and isolate her from the others...
just in case it's something contagious...

Fluff came home with a smallish E-collar...
and a partially sewn shut eye...
that I'm to put salve in 2-3 times a day...

a week of a pissed-off Fluff in an E-collar...

oh joy, oh rapture, oh bliss...

all the way home I was "told off"...
called "bad names" & generally told to go and.....

*sigh*...

never a dull moment...