There was a Friday, there were cats, there were mimosas

[lydy]

But today is Monday.

Friday, now, I had to go to the compounding pharmacy to pick up Arwen's medication. She is hyperthyroid, and truly, massively hates the pills that control that, so I have to get her a chicken suspension. (She doesn't like the fish suspension. I do not know why.) The grocery store is quite close to the pharmacy, so I stopped there for the orange juice that I needed for my mimosas. And there I was, in a grocery store, hungry and very tired, after a truly horrific work shift... I'm lucky I got out with so little.

There were rotisserie chickens. I do not know why they were available so early in the morning, but it seemed like quite the thing, so I got one. Also garlic bread, avocados, and a bunch of other things. But the chicken is the thing that's most interesting.

The chicken itself was good for three or four meals, I'm not sure which. Certainly a good number for the price. But I poured the drippings into a container (which then set up like jello), and I've been using that to enhance the food that I'm offering Naomi. Naomi really likes chicken jello. She's not so keen on the eating, still, and changes what all she'll eat on a frequent basis, but she likes the chicken jello.

This evening, I took the chicken carcass and turned it into broth. Which I then reduced into a concentrate. We'll see if she likes that, but we're almost out of chicken jello. Possibly, I will need to buy another rotisserie chicken. (Woe is me, don't throw me in that there briar patch.)

I do wonder why it is that she feels the need to piss outside the litter box. How is this connected to her kidney disease? Oh, well. She still seems to be pretty much herself, but a bit skinny. I wish I could get her to eat kidney food, but I'll take any food, just for the nonce.

Lady has an appointment with the vet to be spayed this Friday. She doesn't know this, but then, she's a cat. It would be hard to explain. She let me pet her belly this evening, and seemed extravagantly pleased with the whole thing. She has gone more than a month without accidentally attacking anyone. I'm so pleased with her. She also has this funny game she plays with David. There's an office chair in the media room which she has claimed has her chair, and she's there most of the time. It's David's preferred place to sit, also. If Lady is not currently in the chair, and she hears David coming into the room, she will leap into the chair to prevent him from sitting in it. It's very funny. She looks so smug. Then David picks her up, and moves her, so that he can sit in his chair, and she looks a bit affronted.

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[rushthatspeaks.livejournal.com]

I also have a cat with health issues that caused outside-the-litterbox doings. It turned out that he was having abdominal pain when he needed to go that meant that he really, really, really did not want to lift his hind legs to step into the litterbox, even though it was only a couple of inches. We sawed down the litterbox entrance so that it was at floor level and put the whole thing on a kennel tray, and hey presto. I won't say we've had no trouble since, because our cat has a complicated combination of ailments that mean he's just actually sometimes incontinent, but it reduced the problems by more than half.

[lydy.livejournal.com]

Interesting. For the most part, Naomi is still pretty spry. She jumps up onto her shelf (about three or four feet off the ground) to be fed, if she's of a mind to eat. She gets onto the waterbeds quite easily, and bounds up and down stairs when so inclined. It is possible that she has problems once her bladder is full, though.

[rushthatspeaks.livejournal.com]

Our guy was, and is, still pretty spry too-- can get to the tops of bookcases and stuff like that. So it took us a while to figure out, and then the vet told us that it's possible that using the muscles that enable him to go to the litterbox is what sets off the pain.