I thought about having to leave him at the vets. I was thinking they were open late on Tuesdays and I could drop him off tomorrow morning and then pick him up tomorrow night. I wouldn't want to leave him overnight, but.... I'm hoping locking him in the bathroom 3 1/2 hours before the appt. with the lid on the toilet up and no litterbox will do the trick.

CJ was surrendered to the shelter right around Thanksgiving, so he was in the shelter for a little more than a month. I don't know when his human died, but I do know he was home alone in the house for at least a week, with just someone visiting him for food and water. So he has been under a lot of stress, but we've been trying to make it as unstressful as possible by loving on him as much as he'll let us. I know Peanut doesn't help the situation though....

I have mixed feelings. I know UTI's are usually easily remedied with antibiotics so that would normally be my preference of choice here (rather than a behavioral issue), but in my brief experience in giving meds to CJ, I'm opting for the behavioral issues.

He has these two spots on each side of his nose. The vet gave me some cream to put on them in case they are ringworm (but that's another issue) and boy does he hate it when I try and put this stuff on! He fights like I'm really trying to hurt him. I think these spots are sensitive so that doesn't help any. Aaaannnndddd.....he's a drooler. Even though this cream doesn't go in his mouth, I guess it's close enough because he always has drool running down after I put it on - poor little Crackers.....

Anyway, thanks again to everybody for all the suggestions. Guess we'll just have to wait until the vet sees him.....