Buttercup spent the day outside on Saturday after I strangled her put a collar and tag on her. The first couple of hours she spent frantically panting and pawing on the glass like, hey guys I am totally not supposed to be out here! After awhile she disappeared and in the late afternoon finally we heard her pitiful cries and found her hidden deep in the ferns and ivy underneath our fence that was partially knocked down in a wind storm earlier this spring. I peeked under there and amongst the ivy I could just see her eyes, she was like the cheshire cat. When I called her name she came creeping out right away and I transferred her to the garage for the night. Eric stuffed a bunch of towels and stuff in the cat door (since the built in lock is basically powerless against this 20 lb hulk of a meowser when she gets a running start), but come Sunday morning she had dug it all out and got in anyway. At that point I resigned to just keep a close eye on her because trying to force her to stay in the garage was likely going to do more damage than good, reinforcing an already negative association etc etc, since we ultimately do want her to go out there to use the litterbox when this is all over. I should have bought stock in Nature's Miracle.
So anyway. Eric and Seth took her to the vet this morning and indeed she does have crystals in her urine which make her hurt when she pees and could have possibly caused a UTI as well. So a $65 injection to treat the possible UTI plus prescription cat food for a month to change the pH of her pee to clear out the crystals. After all that we just hope and pray that she isn't already turned off by the litterbox - when they associate that with the painful urination that is why they start going other places. I suppose worse case scenario we will just have to get a new one and maybe just relocate it to another area of the garage. Almost $200 later in vet bills all I can say is this better work!
Our little Seth monster gets to go to the doc today too, to get his 2nd Hep B shot that they couldn't give him at his 6 month checkup since it was a few days shy of 6 months exactly from when he got the 1st one at the hospital. So that will not be fun, I thought I had strategically missed witnessing the last round of imms but no such luck today. He will be 27 weeks tomorrow and so far he has eaten rice cereal, avocado, applesauce, zucchini, prunes, carrots, and banana. We tried banana for the first time yesterday and I expected it to be a big hit but he seemed pretty unaffected by it. Maybe he just wasn't very hungry or there were too many distractions, we did have some friends over at the time. I think next on the docket will be oatmeal baby cereal and then perhaps some sweet potato. So far I think the zucchini is his favorite, he gulps it down just about as fast as you can spoon it in. Prunes are the most fun for me though because of the awesome mess it makes all over his face.
Adios Amigas.
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