I had a great day with my parents followed by an extremely traumatic evening. About 4:00pm or so I was upstairs with the cats and Nilla just started hissing and attacking me. I thought maybe I had another cat's scent on me, so I went in my bedroom and changed my clothes. He followed me in and started hissing and coming at me with paws swinging. Then he calmed down a little and then went right back at me.
I thought maybe he was in pain, because he is having tooth trouble. I called the vet who sort of acted like he wasn't sure I should take him in. Nilla couldn't seem to calm down, so I isolated him in a part of the house away from Callie and I left him alone to calm down. He calmed down, then he would rub against my legs like he was making up and then he'd attack me again (I should say this is a cat with only a couple good teeth and I keep his claws clipped, so even though he came at me over and over and over, I have one little scratch.
Anyway, during the third call to the vet, he attacked while I was on the phone and the people within earshot of the vet heard it. He then agreed that I needed to take him in on an emergency basis and said as soon as I could get him in something to take him in, to call and he'd meet me there. By this time I was in tears and was a total basket case. I mean who do you call to help you cage a very angry cat? Well I called my cat sitter and bless her soul she and a friend came over and we got him in his carrier.
So about 9:00pm I got him to the vet. He was much calmer there but is still very mad at me. I hope he gets over being that mad. I'm a little concerned about that. The vet gave him a pain killer but said other than his teeth - which he did show pain when they were touched - he couldn't really see anything wrong, other than he is very mad at me at the moment. So he's in the hospital, probably until Monday at least, when they can hopefully pull the bad teeth and figure out if there's anything else wrong.
It's been a terribly upsetting night and I missed Verdi's Requiem with the symphony and 7 college choirs in a mass choir. I was looking forward to it, but I had to take care of Nilla. I really hope he isn't mad at me forever.