Mary Healey wrote in
.4:



Sometimes the glaringly obvious gets overlooked when you're too close
to
it.

Totally true.

Just went through this (in a different way) with the Cat of Bitchiness
JJ. She was slightly more cranky than usual for a few days. She was
visiting the cat box a little bit more often (she's still a wee bit
obsessed with the concept of indoor cat "plumbing" though anyway, so it
was hard to tell. She's not terribly friendly, and there are only one or
two times a day when I have "permission" to Touch The Goddess. So, that
those times were shortened from one minute at a time, to 30 seconds
didn't immediately signal a major problem. The last sign was that she
stopped sleeping on the foot of my bed and spent the night in the
bathroom. I made the vet appointment feeling kind of stupid about it.
Turned out she had a really uncomfortable UTI, which we dealt with. She
was also having some ulcerations around her vaginal area (hell, if she
was a NICE cat, I still wouldn't be pulling the fat folds open to check
that are regularly....and I'm certainly not chancing that with the stray
biatch).

A couple weeks of antibiotics and ass regualr ass washing later and she
was much better, but still not quite "right" (plus now she HATED me), so
back she went. Since we had already done urine culture and bloodwork, Dr
Bonnie picked Xrays and a sonogram (didn't charge for the latter.....one
of the many reasons I ove that lady) and found a fair amount of
constipated impaction. Not full blockage, but enough to be
uncomfortable. Two days of enemas at the vet's, more ass washing and a
week of Metamucil (why do I have pets again?) and she was not only back
to her old self, but so happy about feeling better that she gave me two
free days of actual lubbin'. Lucky me!

And I've said many times, with Finn I was so used to seeing him unwell,
that if I had been able to see him with "new" eyes, I probably would
have released him a few months sooner than I did.

We can only guess at what's going on with them, no matter how intimately
we understand their behaviors. We do the best we can, and some of us
wear the "Nervous Nellie" badges at the vets and don't care who knows it
:-)

Let us know how he's doing.

Tara