Trepidation

James seems to have been having a couple of skirmishes recently, coming home limping and with various cuts and scratches. He's possibly not as hard as he thinks he is. Last week he came home with a cut that seemed to be healing but over the last couple of days was getting (and smelling) worse, so Louisa booked him an appointment at the vets...at half past nine this evening...and he was pretty anxious about being there in his cat carrier. 

Turns out the injury had developed into an abscess. The vet cleaned it all up, including shaving the side of his head, and scraping away all the pus, and he's been prescribed antibiotics and an anti-inflammatory to sort out any lingering infection  Yay! It's so much fun trying to get pills into him!