Trouble in River City
Aug. 7th, 2010 12:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jaunthieI freely admit that I'm not at my best at 5:50 a.m.. I am, in fact, barely awake at that hour, if I'm awake at all. But there I was, staggering into the bathroom yesterday morning, getting up to go to work as usual. And there was the B-cat, lounging by the toilet.
Well, okay. Not something I've seen him do much, but it was hot Thursday night. I thought he was being clever, using the base of the toilet to cool himself with.
So I come up to him to give him some scritches, and he rolls over onto his back, and he's all happy and purrful and glad to see me...
...and he starts piddling himself.
And he doesn't seem to know he's really doing it.
Big ol' alarm bells go off. I'm hardly an expert, but even I know this isn't normal kitty behavior. There go my plans for the day - and for the weekend too.
So I schedule the earliest possible appt with the vet I can get - 2 p.m., unfortunately - and quarantine B-cat (along with litter box, food, and water) to the downstairs bathroom, which is both small and easily cleanable. And we take him to the vet at the appointed time.
Unfortunately by the time we got him there, he had pretty much piddled himself dry. So he had to stay there for many hours while they waited for, um, a sample.
Which was chock-full of crystals, or so the vet tech told us. The actual vet wasn't available by the time we could pick him up, so we have many questions. But yes, he's got a bladder infection, he's been given an antibiotic shot, and crystals are bad, and we're going to have to change his food, and maybe his bladder is going to blow up.
Gah.
And while he's relatively perky today, and definitely not thrilled at being isolated, he's also still having problems using the litterbox. Which is not a good sign, I think. If he's not better by tomorrow morning, we're under instructions to bring him back right away.
Sigh.
B-cat's not even a year old yet. He's really too young to be putting us through this!
Well, okay. Not something I've seen him do much, but it was hot Thursday night. I thought he was being clever, using the base of the toilet to cool himself with.
So I come up to him to give him some scritches, and he rolls over onto his back, and he's all happy and purrful and glad to see me...
...and he starts piddling himself.
And he doesn't seem to know he's really doing it.
Big ol' alarm bells go off. I'm hardly an expert, but even I know this isn't normal kitty behavior. There go my plans for the day - and for the weekend too.
So I schedule the earliest possible appt with the vet I can get - 2 p.m., unfortunately - and quarantine B-cat (along with litter box, food, and water) to the downstairs bathroom, which is both small and easily cleanable. And we take him to the vet at the appointed time.
Unfortunately by the time we got him there, he had pretty much piddled himself dry. So he had to stay there for many hours while they waited for, um, a sample.
Which was chock-full of crystals, or so the vet tech told us. The actual vet wasn't available by the time we could pick him up, so we have many questions. But yes, he's got a bladder infection, he's been given an antibiotic shot, and crystals are bad, and we're going to have to change his food, and maybe his bladder is going to blow up.
Gah.
And while he's relatively perky today, and definitely not thrilled at being isolated, he's also still having problems using the litterbox. Which is not a good sign, I think. If he's not better by tomorrow morning, we're under instructions to bring him back right away.
Sigh.
B-cat's not even a year old yet. He's really too young to be putting us through this!
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Date: 2010-08-07 08:06 pm (UTC)It's a silly thing about cats, that they hide problems until they've gotten really bad. Sensible in the wild but not in the domestic setting...
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Date: 2010-08-07 11:39 pm (UTC)