Me, Backwards

Daisy actually took okay to the injection of fluids sub-cutaneously.  The vet tech was, of course, smoother at it than I was, but after a couple false starts, I was able to try it out myself.  We’ll see how I do alone on Friday!  So, we’re trying that plus food for cats with kidney disease.  Since Daisy’s so mad for “special” food, I got the wet version rather than the dry, so I can feed it to her as a “treat.”  She scarfed up the first serving, so that’s a good sign that she’ll deal well with the food.

This morning I moved one of the litter boxes into the dining room (where she’d been doing her business).  She’s been excellent about using it all day, which is such a relief.  Sure, I’d rather have both litter boxes back in the bathroom, but a litter box is a heck of a lot easier to clean up than pee-stained carpet.

For the last six weeks or so, one of my two cats was occasionally doing its business in the dining room.  It took me until late last week to pinpoint the culprit: Daisy.  Over the weekend I worked hard to clean up the carpet in the dining room and hoped that if the smell went away, she’d go back to using the litter box in the bathroom.  Alas, this wasn’t the case, and in fact it seemed that she was deliberately using the dining room in front of me.  So… time for the vet, and they were great enough to squeeze me in on Monday afternoon. (more…)