Raptor Gloves & One Very Hostile Cat

"Animal Care Clinic"

192 pieces  |  LEGO: 41085 (retired)

Assembled by Kristy Williams, June 2025

Interaction Rating: 5 / 5 (interaction with the set is encouraged)

January 18, 2024

If you've met Delilah, you know she's ferocious. She'll rub against your leg and hiss at you at the same time, the Queen of Mixed Signals. She also sleeps on Sarah's face every night, so she is a cat of many personalities. In the winter of 2024, she came down with the cat equivalent of a cold. She would get caught by these adorable sneezing spells that would make her shake her head, like she could get the sneezing to stop by doing that. You'd be less afraid of her if you heard her sneeze. But if you saw her at the vet, you may never willingly enter the same room with her again. Delilah HATES the vet. The couple took her because the sneezing wasn't going away (though, of course, by the time the vet appointment rolled around, the sneezing was mostly gone). Getting her into the cat crate wasn't too hard, though she grumbled the whole time she was in it, knowing it wouldn't lead to anything she liked. At the vet's office, they tried to warn them that D was hard to handle, but the vet had to learn for herself. When Delilah fights, she has an interesting strategy. Usually, a cat wants to protect its belly and will do anything to prevent you from having a shot at their soft underside, but D isn't most cats. She will purposely roll on her back with her claws out at maximum extension, as that gives her the best opportunity to rip into you with all four paws. The vet realized pretty quickly that raptor gloves would be necessary, and they gave up on actually examining her. The vet was obligated by law to give her a rabies shot, as she was overdue for a new dose. So that became the goal: just give D a rabies shot. After five minutes of the vet chasing D around the examination room with the raptor gloves and Delilah making the most awful screeching war cries, everyone was exhausted. The vet let them know that they couldn't administer the rabies shot while she was conscious. Yep, Delilah broke the vet to the point where she was willing to break veterinary law to get her out of the office. D fought off the cold right out of her body while at the vet, and she came home cured (but has still not received her most recent rabies shot, so watch out!).

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One very suspicious Delilah in her cat crate in the vet's office. In the other frame, Hunter looking slap-happy and Sarah looking weary as they wait for the vet to meet their hellion.