Quote Originally Posted by jenn_librarian View Post
I am so coming to Canada and stealing me some kitties, lol! They are just too darn cute!!
LOL. Someone else said that in a post, maybe you guys can carpool! heehee

Unfortunately Jimmy was not doing well this morning and gave us a scare. He has been doing so well for 2 weeks. I was even saying to my husband that I haven't seen Jimmy be so frisky and look so good in years and wondered if maybe he had this infection for a long time?!?
Last night he ate dinner and all seemed normal but this morning he wouldn't get out of bed just like 2 weeks ago. He wouldn't eat and then he used the litterbox and produced some more of that awful looking stool that lookes like intestines. It was just a little bit but I immediately called the vet's office. It is of course Sunday and their machine said that a different vet hospital was on call. I called the pager and the vet called me back. She must have been at a party because I could barely hear her over all the people in the background and I don't know how much she could hear me. Anyway, I told her the whole story and how he had been on IV fluids overnight, had xrays, an ultrasound, bloodwork and a urinalysis. She said that he has probably had a flare up and needs to get back on the metronidazole. My vet only gave me one week's worth of it and 2 weeks of the Novomoxan liquid. I asked her if I could get some metronidazole from her and she said that she would have to do all the tests all over again on Jimmy and all at emerg fee rates. During regular hours, it was over a 1,000 so I could only imagine what she was talking. It really seemed that she was trying to talk me out of bringing him in. I was so mad when I got off the phone. This is the holistic vet that I was planning to bring Jimmy to in the near future once we got over this hurdle but not anymore. She was so cold and she sounded like she couldn't care less about his condition, just the bill that it might generate. I've spoken with a ton of vets during emergency hours (just as I'm sure we all have) and for the most part, they are reasonable and somewhat caring.
Anyway, I decided to monitor him knowing that if I had to bring him in, I would. I turned the heat up so he would be nice and warm in our room and spent alot of time with him. I finally got him to eat some of the dry Gastro kibbles soaked in water and then I found a jar of baby food in the cupboard leftover from Tiger's ordeal. He ate about a tablespoon of that. He seems brighter now. I will take him in the morning if he is worse and will pick up some Metronidazole from the clinic when I go to drop off Muddy's urine sample.