Well the neighbours cat came in today, another big hole in his neck, it looks like an abscess has burst, the hole he had last summer still isn't completely better so hes booked into the vet at 2.40 for a check up and possibly blood tests to check for anything nasty.
We have shut him in the conservatory and hes spent the last hour trying to find an escape route, god knows how hes going to react to being put in a carrier, then a car then the vets

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really looking forward to that!
Will ask the vet about how to go about finding him a new home, not that we've ruled out keeping him - we just can't make up our minds what to do right now!