Entry: Gettin back to normal! Wednesday, June 03, 2009



Hi everyone!  I'm feeling much better and things are getting back to normal.  I'm starting to knock things over again and hopefully I'll be breaking things soon.

See my bracelets?  I'm sure glad I didn't make fun of Spot's poodle cut a couple months ago!

Apparently the new normal however, includes my mom squeezing my bladder every 5 minutes and encouraging me to drink water all day long.  Of course it would probably help if she actually knew where my bladder is. 

That and the cat litter/litter boxes.  William's post made me think to post about the litter situation.  We switched off the wheat litter back to clay for Spot's asthma.  Then one of the vets told Mom he should have pellet litter which is dust free.  So Mom got recycled paper pellets, and then pine pellets.  Except that she can't really tell when it's been peeped on, and it doesn't clump, making it impossible to scoop.  Then there's the corncob litter.  It's really lightweight and it clumps well. But it smells.  Not badly, but it smells.  Currently we have 5 litter boxes for 3 cats.  Two of them are dishpans, which are a little smaller, but deeper, which makes them pretty good at resting the kickout.  We kind of like them too, but I think Mom's gone a little over the edge...
   6 comments

Everycat
June 17, 2009   08:28 PM PDT
 
Oh Puff you have been through it fella! Glad you are doing better now though. I have to drink loads as I am prone to crystals and UTIs. I have a Royal Canin Food called Urinary HD (High Dilution) It makes me drink GALLONS! So I now drink and pee like a horse despite still being a cat!

Take care and stay well.

Whicky Wuudler
Derby
June 7, 2009   09:51 PM PDT
 
Glad you are feeling better.
Charlemagne and Tamar
June 7, 2009   12:41 AM PDT
 
Puff,

We're really glad that you're feeling better. The bracelets don't look too bad - just tell everyone that you requested that look! Us kitties must stay in control of things, right?

Tamar and Charlemagne
DaisyMae Maus
June 6, 2009   10:24 PM PDT
 
DOOD! I'm so glad that I'm checkin' in at your bloggie! I didn't know that you were sick! Golly. Your visit to the v-e-t DOES sound absolutely like Hell on Earth. We're you able to break anything while you were there? Even a rectal thermometer would be something to add to your destruct-o-meter. Feel better, okay? We're not up to four litter boxes for five cats, so you're not too "odd" with your five-for-three ... Keep drinkin' water! Mom once used soccer player water bottles with the tube thingy at the top to shoot water into Lacey Bunns' and Peaches' mouths when they wouldn't drink enough. It sounds pretty awful to me ... Perhaps you'd find ice water more palatable? Talk to you later, dood!
DMM
William
June 4, 2009   12:14 AM PDT
 
Lookin' good, Puff! Oh, and you know what? My mom went and changed our brand of litter tonight, just when I thought things were safe! We've used Swheat Scoop for ages but for some reason I started to attract the stuff like crazy and it sticks deep in my fur. Then I groom it off, not a good thing. So now we're trying Dr. Elsey's teeny tiny clay litter, and so far no dust or litter cling. Not too bad on the paws, either. But we'll see.

In the old days we used to use Feline Pine, but Mom had this elaborate ritual of sifting the whole box to get the disintegrated peed on parts out and somehow she couldn't see doing that a zillion times a day for the five of us.
Shilgiah the Cat
June 3, 2009   05:09 PM PDT
 
I'm so glad you are feeling better enough to be sarcastic about the mom's obsession with kitty litter and bladders. Can't wait till the full fledged Puffinator is back teaching your little bro and the blogosphere how to destroy stuff the humans must really put out for that purpose.

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