Baby Cats and Baby Peoples
Two updates.
Nero is coming along. He hates us, but he may sort of be getting better. I don’t think he’s going to die. Today was spent following along behind him stopping him from popping a squat all over the house. He dribbles pee when he does that and oh lordy, we need a serious carpet shampoo right now. If you were thinking about coming to my house in the near future, don’t. We have three litter boxes, two makeshift cardboard box/litter thing topped with an old rug (one downstairs, one upstairs), and towels wadded in his little bed. Everything that looks like a container is a good place to pee and everything soft is even better. So, rugs, carpets, laundry, towels, pet beds, laundry hampers, and laundry baskets have been dribbled on here. He’s on antiobiotics twice a day. This involves prying open his mouth as he wriggles out of your arms to pour a dropper-full of refridgerated medicine.
Last night, after his day of rectal thermometers, caging, pain, etc. we still had to give medicine, wash a foot smooshed in his brother’s poop and watered in pee, wash his tail two seconds later for pee, feel up his belly to make sure his bladder isn’t hard, and clean his ass for more smooshed Ivan poop.
Update: He HATES us.
In other news, my sister-in-law is still not pregnant. She’s two weeks late, full of symptoms, and her bloodwork is still negative. Her earlier testing-bloodwork is mostly inconclusive. Doctors cite PCOS first and a myriad of issues second. She has no concrete reason why she hasn’t gotten pregnant. Her fertility specialist has sent her back to her regular OB.
I can only imagine the mind-fuck she and her husband are dealing with as they are batted back and forth, with no answers.
Posted by Melissa on May 10th, 2006 under Melancholia, That One Time I Thought About Conceiving3 Responses to “Baby Cats and Baby Peoples”
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May 11th, 2006 at 11:41 am
You could try enzyme cleaner on the carpet, but my diabetic cat died (he had pee problems) I ended up ripping the carpet out entirely and replacing it with laminate. Just wipe-and-go.
May 11th, 2006 at 11:50 am
I’m so sorry about your cat. They wedge themselves into your heart, no?
Hm, an endzyme cleaner may work. I’ve been wiping and moving on, the carpet isn’t pristine anyway since we have kids. We have hardwood underneath our carpet, but previous owners pounded a thousand nails into it to stop squeaks. The tempation to just have the hardwood is intense, but the work, my god.
May 12th, 2006 at 1:03 pm
So glad the kitty is well enough to hate you and struggle with you. My cat is alive by virtue of droppersful of various pharmaceuticals daily, and I feared for him most when he was too weak to scratch me.
Meanwhile, we own both a carpet shampooer and a little hand-held steam cleaner for on-the-spot dramatic evidence removal. This is the kind of stuff you accumulate when you are owned by adorable animals who get sick.