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Espy Update - home and happy
Suddenly, without warning, dgk exclaimed (8/3/2009 8:25 AM):
On Fri, 31 Jul 2009 11:36:18 -0400, "cybercat" wrote: "dgk" wrote Espy was VERY happy to be home and immediately wanted to go into the backyard, so the brood spent a few hours outside until dinner time. He's really completely back to normal except just a bit more affectionate than before. Either he appreciates his fine medical care or is afraid that I'm going to subject him to some more. No, he missed you! My little Gracie is sooo sweet when I come home from a few days away, would be doubly so if she were at the vet! I'm supposed to do a follow up urine culture and maybe liver profile so I think he is going to get some more attention. I can't figure out how I'm going to get him to pee in a cup. haha! You don't have to, the vet will extract the urine. I maybe got lucky. I was by the litterbox and Espy went in and squatted I grabbed an (hopefully) empty Fancy Feast container and put it under his butt just as he started peeing. I put it in the refrig and dropped it off at the vet next morning. Now all I have to do is hope that it wasn't too contaminated by the remains of Fancy Feast. Same goes for the urinalysis. If I get really strange results then I can ignore them and I'm just out the cash. Results should be in today. Unfortunately, it'll be too old to tell much from. Cat urine starts creating crystals within an hour, even refrigerated. They'll be able to tell about white or red blood cells, but won't be able to make a determination about the crystals. Which sucks, because Meep always pees in the wee hours of the morning (pun intended) she she always has to get the cysto needle. jmc |
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Espy Update - home and happy
On Mon, 03 Aug 2009 16:31:47 -0400, jmc
wrote: Suddenly, without warning, dgk exclaimed (8/3/2009 8:25 AM): On Fri, 31 Jul 2009 11:36:18 -0400, "cybercat" wrote: "dgk" wrote Espy was VERY happy to be home and immediately wanted to go into the backyard, so the brood spent a few hours outside until dinner time. He's really completely back to normal except just a bit more affectionate than before. Either he appreciates his fine medical care or is afraid that I'm going to subject him to some more. No, he missed you! My little Gracie is sooo sweet when I come home from a few days away, would be doubly so if she were at the vet! I'm supposed to do a follow up urine culture and maybe liver profile so I think he is going to get some more attention. I can't figure out how I'm going to get him to pee in a cup. haha! You don't have to, the vet will extract the urine. I maybe got lucky. I was by the litterbox and Espy went in and squatted I grabbed an (hopefully) empty Fancy Feast container and put it under his butt just as he started peeing. I put it in the refrig and dropped it off at the vet next morning. Now all I have to do is hope that it wasn't too contaminated by the remains of Fancy Feast. Same goes for the urinalysis. If I get really strange results then I can ignore them and I'm just out the cash. Results should be in today. Unfortunately, it'll be too old to tell much from. Cat urine starts creating crystals within an hour, even refrigerated. They'll be able to tell about white or red blood cells, but won't be able to make a determination about the crystals. Which sucks, because Meep always pees in the wee hours of the morning (pun intended) she she always has to get the cysto needle. jmc Results from the urinalysis are in and there was nothing significant. no Fancy Feast seen either. Big victory thus far. The culture isn't back yet and I'm concerned over that - negative cultures should be done in 48 hours or so. |
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