Several months ago our cat, Pixley, was very sick with what I can only describe as the kitty flu. He was hot, lethargic, and wouldn't eat even the most tempting of morsels (not even when I warmed them up for him). My husband took him into the vet's office and as the doctor examined him he mentioned that he wanted to get a fecal sample. No sooner had these word come out of his mouth than Pixley wiggled off the exam table and presented him with a very nasty, loose stool on the floor (My poor baby was SICK!!!). He then proceeded to try to "bury" it on the linoleum floor. Some injected fluid and 10 days worth of medication later he was right as rain but, at the vet's office, they still kid about Pixley being their only patient who can produce a fecal sample on demand! ;>)