To continue with where we left off last week — one or more cats urinating in places they are not supposed to — I took Pretty Boy Floyd to Dr. Val on Monday.\u00a0 She couldn’t find anything specifically wrong with him, but the ultrasound on his bladder indicated some “junky” stuff in there.\u00a0 Some male cats have bladders like that, so that doesn’t necessarily mean he’s my culprit.\u00a0 But Dr. Val’s gut feel is it’s a male kitty with the problem.\u00a0 Since we “only” have three of those, I said I’d been considering bringing all three in on Monday and I offered to bring the other two back with me.\u00a0 We set it up for the end of the day — she had a few surgeries lined up and hoped to be done then.<\/p>\n
I rounded up all the boys and brought them in.\u00a0 Everyone seems to be in good health, but she couldn’t get any urine samples to verify.\u00a0 In fact, Ajax gained back some of the weight he lost before getting his teeth cleaned.\u00a0 There was the matter of Floyd’s “junky” bladder.\u00a0 She sent me home with a specimen cup and syringe and asked me to suck up any samples I discovered to bring in for testing. So, I turned all the cats loose this week, trying to get a sample. This wouldn’t tell us which cat, but it would tell us if we had a kitty with a urinary tract infection or a kitty with a behavioral problem.\u00a0 Since the infection is easier to fix, we were left in an uncomfortable position of hoping we had a sick kitty.\u00a0 I’m also treating both Daphne and Floyd with Amoxicillin twice a day as a preventive measure.<\/p>\n
The week has been pretty quiet, but earlier this week I caught Floyd “burying” a fake sheepskin fleece cat blanket. Sure enough, it had been urinated on.\u00a0 I washed it and put it back out.\u00a0 I caught him doing the same thing this morning.\u00a0 Also, in the kitchen sink, I found a urine sample someone had left overnight.\u00a0 I sucked it up with the syringe and put it in the specimen cup.\u00a0 While Mr. L was dragging me around yard sales this morning, we stopped at the clinic to get the sample analyzed.\u00a0 The “good” news is, we have a kitty with a urinary tract infection.\u00a0 We’re pretty sure it’s one of the boys, and I’d place bets it’s Floyd.\u00a0 To be on the safe side, I’m taking all three boys in on Monday and dropping them off.\u00a0 Dr Val’s going to put them in a position to willingly give her a sample (Vee haf ways…) and test it.\u00a0 Assuming someone tests positive, she’s going to send off for more detailed analysis to find out what will be the best treatment for the problem.<\/p>\n
Other than that, it’s been a pretty uneventful week here.\u00a0 Since Floyd has jumped Rossie a time or two, I had Mr. L pick up a collar with a bell to let Rossie know he’s around, too. We’ve had a few scuffles this week, but nothing I’d call a really major altercation.\u00a0 Since nobody is getting injured in these dust-ups, and Rossie isn’t hiding as much as she used to, I’m less concerned about their dislike for each other.\u00a0 I don’t want the disagreements to happen of course, but some of it is probably normal in a household with this many cats.<\/p>\n
Lady is mostly taking her medication inside a Greenies Pill Pocket. I have to watch her, but she’s offering less resistance to me chucking it down her throat if she spits the pill out of the pocket than she was before I figured out to give her a treat (I initially tried wrapping it in cheese, but she wouldn’t touch it) right after popping it down her throat.<\/p>\n
I’ve made no significant progress with Mooch, but he does perk up when I have the Fancy Feast.\u00a0 He won’t eat the L-lysine treats I got for him, but I crumble them onto his Fancy Feast, and he gets them that way.\u00a0 I don’t know if they help or not, but I’m sure they don’t hurt.<\/p>\n
A quiet week is a good thing.\u00a0 Maybe we’ll have a few more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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