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<\/a><\/p>\nFirst of all, I would like to announce that she seems well on her way to recovery so this information is all past-tense. \u00a0Brandee described the situation in a Facebook post well so I will let her words describe Bella’s status:<\/p>\n
I am recovering from an abscess due to a fight I had couple of weeks ago. Gotta protect my family from pirates and scourge!<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Mom and Dad trimmed my nails and agreed to remove that torturous cone from my neck so I could sleep. My stitches come out on the 30th.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Mom and Dad have been taking excellent care of me! They feed me clams, tuna and chicken! They give me my meds around the clock and they sit outside with me several times a day to protect me while I get some sun.” Love and pity paws, Isabella Annamarie Neal \u2014 with Bella Neal<\/span> and Kevin Neal<\/span>.<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Bella’s injury Sept-14 (Update Sept-30-14) —<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Here is an update on Bella’s status to close-the-loop on this situation. \u00a0In summary, she is doing well and fully recovered. \u00a0We thank everyone for their well-wishes. \u00a0Once again I would like to share Brandee’s Facebook post verbatim as she summarized everything extremely well:<\/p>\n Pussface is back from getting her stitches removed. Doc says it looks perfect and she may not have a scar at all. The salve I have been putting on it really did the trick, he said. <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n Bacitracin; I swear by it for all wounds. It’s really great for diabetics, too. You buy it over the counter at Walgreens or any pharmacy.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n Grateful for my kids (Jack and Bella)<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Below are a few supplemental photos of some of the past few weeks animal-antics! \u00a0Any animal lover knows that they have a sixth-sense that humans certainly cannot comprehend. \u00a0While it was heart breaking to see my children go through these pains, it was remarkable to witness the close bonding between Jack and Bella that was clear, although not spoken (in English at least). \u00a0When Bella hurt; \u00a0Jack knew it and was there to comfort her. \u00a0I assure you that this was not typical behavior. \u00a0Vice-versa; when Jack hurt recently, Bella was right there for him. \u00a0It was absolutely amazing. \u00a0Here are a few of the photos:<\/p>\n When I started my KevinNeal.com blog in 2009 I made a personal commitment to share my life. \u00a0The Good, The Bad and some of The Ugly. While I’ve shared many of ‘The Goods’ there must be balance so I would like to share a recent scary recent experience with our cat (aka ‘daughter’), Bella Neal. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[506,51],"class_list":["post-1830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life_and_family","tag-children","tag-kids"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false,"post-thumbnail":false,"coral-dark-medium-large-2x":false,"coral-dark-large-2x":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"admin","author_link":"https:\/\/www.kevinneal.com\/blog\/author\/admin\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"When I started my KevinNeal.com blog in 2009 I made a personal commitment to share my life. \u00a0The Good, The Bad and some of The Ugly. While I’ve shared many of ‘The Goods’ there must be balance so I would like to share a recent scary recent experience with our cat (aka ‘daughter’), Bella Neal.…","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinneal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinneal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinneal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinneal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinneal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1830"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinneal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1839,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinneal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1830\/revisions\/1839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinneal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinneal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinneal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a> <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"