Hi, I thought I'd let you all know how things went today. Sky is a very healthy boy and weighs 13lbs. 2oz. My vet loves him and while we were in the waiting room he even let two very small children pet him. Everyone loves Sky.
Starr's urinalysis was normal so I'm very glad that he doesn't have another UTI. He now weighs 10lbs. 5oz.My vet was estatic about this and wants him to try to maintain this weight. I personaly think that he's a little bit too chubby because he's such a small cat to begin with but I'd rather see him like this than being skin and bones like he was before.
Ziggy Stardust was a very scared little girl but all in all she did very well. Her exam went well except that there may be something wrong with her blue eye.I noticed back in April that the pupil in her blue eye was slightly larger than her brown/bronze eye. My vet didn't think that it looked too bad but she wanted to do an occular pressure test on it. She numbed her eye and put this intstrument against her eye which measures the pressure. She did it several times and her pressure is slightly above normal.
She also looked at her retina with another instrument and she saw something that didn't look right. I forgot exactly what she called it. Starting tonight I have to give her one eye drop in this eye. The medicine is called xalatan and it's very expensive. It's a very small bottle and it cost $100.
I really like my new vet and she gave me a disount today of $63.15. She only charged me for 2 recheck office visits at $37 and she saw 3 cats. The first office visit is supposed to be $58. Since I still have a cat that likes to pee in my entry way near my front door, my vet suggested that I buy some cat attract and also put a litterbox there for now. Then I'll gradually move it to where I want it to remain or remove it later if I want to. I'll be moving it down the hallway until it's in front of my hall closet which is at the end of the hallway. Then I'll probably just leave it there.
I decided to buy 3 more medium sized litterboxes that have the clip on frames so that the litter will hopefully stay in the litterbox. I put one as close to my front door as I could while still being able to open it. I put one in my living room between my 2 bar stools and this is also very close to another area that's been peed on. I put the 3rd new litterbox in the hall bathroom which is my roommates bathroom. It's hidden away and one of the cats has been peeing on the rugs in there so I'm sure my roommate would rather have them pee in the box than on her rugs. She's out of town but I left her message on her voice mail about everything that I've done. She's a very tolerant roommate.
One of my other litterboxes was also hardly being used and it had a lid on it so I removed the lid and I put some cat attract on top of the old litter. I did this for all of the new litterboxes too. I sure hope that this will finally help to calm things down around here. Now I have 8 litterboxes for 6 cats. I sure hope that this will be enough for them.
Please keep Ziggy in your thoughts and prayers. I sure hope that her eye pressure can be corrected easily and permanently. Thanks for reading this.
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My vet wants to call an eye specialist tomorrow to ask his/her opinion about her eye. She doesn't want me to continue with the eye drops right now unless the eye specialist tells her otherwise. She'll let me know by e-mail or by calling me as soon as she knows anything tomorrow. I sure hope that Ziggy won't have to go see an eye specialist. She gets so nervous in the car that she pants all the way home.
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