Frelons being them great big wasps (hornets?). Normally not aggressive unless provoked. Well our little outside cat called Baby, must have provoked one, probably by accident.
I have waited 4 days to be able to catch him. He lives in the barn with his mother Nipolena!
It was obvious he was ill last time I saw him as his face and front legs were swollen.
I caught him at feeding time this morning and got him into the cat box. Malc rolled over in bed and groaned when I told him... still no car and a Sunday to bother the vet!
Our kind Dutch neighbour gave up an hour of his time to run us to Laguepie to meet the vet who opened for us.
Baby has swollen kidneys, water under his skin and is quite poorly, all from a sting from a frelon. The vet has pumped him with antibiotics, wormer, various other injections and we have brought him home to see how he goes. Another sting would kill him the vet tells us.
It seems a bizarre scenario that we do all this for a cat we hardly ever get to see, we feed and it lives when it wants to in the barn. The dashed thing will not even be grateful or know of the big vet's bills paid on his behalf.. but he is our baby!
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