Cat Update
Woman in the Middle | October 7, 2014Please don’t read this if you do not wish to read about my cat’s pooping issues. Really. Just click away right now.
Blackie survived the week at the vet while we were on vacation. They confirmed that he would rather not eat than eat the low bulk food he is supposed to eat. Glad it wasn’t just my presentation. I kept thinking the sprig of parsley would make it look so nice in his bowl…along with the candles and fresh flowers…but it didn’t work. (That was a joke…although Blackie might like the parsley…)
So now I do not have to feel guilty because I am giving him 2/3s of the food he is supposed to be eating and 1/3 of the food he isn’t supposed to be eating. Meanwhile, he must be happy he is home because he is pooping. A week ago Saturday we were gone all day to the wedding I told you about. The quiet house all to himself along with lots of food left out must have relaxed and inspired Blackie. He left a lovely large present on top of his cat litter for us to see when we got home.
Since then he has continued his normal routine – poop just enough to keep from going to the vet, but not enough to allow the family to relax.
I am sorry I have to be so obsessed with my cat’s poop, but the alternative is an unhappy cat, an x-ray, an enema, and a large vet bill. For all kinds of reasons both Blackie and I would like to avoid that!
It’s amazing what we are reduced to when our cats have issues. I spent the past several years with Scooter who pooped too slow and Sam who pooped too often. Our lives were consumed with conversations about cat poop. I completely understand your concern.
Good luck!
Only another cat person would understand how pooping issues can take over the conversation!
Jake goes to the vet when we go on vacation because he needs shots and the sitter can’t find him. They have to give him meds so he eats to balance the insulin. The only poop issue I have is when he claims he can’t get his equipment in the box properly (because of size, you know he’s a guy) and poops over the edge.
Blackie always gets the poop in the box, but, in spite of the fact that we bought him and under the bed box to use as a litter box, his pee often misses the mark, so to speak. I figured out that, as he does his thing, his bottom rises higher and higher until the pee is sailing merrily out of the box. Thank goodness the box is in the garage!
I guess animals are like children you can’t make them eat what they don’t want to eat no matte how hard you try. Also good he is pooping
My cat used to scoot her bottom all over our carpet when she couldn’t clean it well enough herself. My ex used to laugh and laugh!