Posted by jodie on February 20, 2003, at 2:47:40
In reply to Cranky, crabby, crappy -- Part 2, posted by bozeman on February 19, 2003, at 23:22:30
I forgot to wish your kitty good luck on my last post. I had my mind on many things, my fiancee being one of them. He has been saying that I'm addicted to this site, and thinks I'm stupid for posting here. We had just finished arguing about it. He has been checking in here, reading my posts and getting mad because I am telling "strangers" (his word) my personal problems. He also mentions the horror stories he's heard about people meeting someone else on the internet, on sites like this, and eventually dating them. I told him I find much relief and support here. He still doesn't understand.
Anyway, enough about me. Sorry your Kitty is so sick. Sounds like he (and you) have been through a tough time. I understand, I have 2 cats & 2 dogs. Both cats were rescued from the streets, and the dogs, we rescued from the animal shelter. We went to get Samantha, our female cat spayed, but found out she had a bad case of cystitis (bladder infection), I guess her bladder was really inflammed. We felt so bad, because she was yowling (that really loud annoying meow when cats are in heat)a lot, keeping us awake. We thought it was from being in heat, but it was from pain. We felt so horrible. She was urinating on the carpet and on clothes throughout the house. There was a tiny bit of blood in her urine. Again, we thought it was all part of her being in heat. I have had all male cats in the past. On the day of her surgery to be spayed, they called us and said they couldn't perform the procedure, because of her urinating blood. After all the tests, and antibiotic, we spent around $140.00. She started to get better, we rescheduled for the spay. She finished her antibiotics, then problems again. We had to call the vet, and get a different antibiotic, and had to do another reschedule.
Sjynja (pronounced Sinja) is a 3 year old shar pei husky mix, she looks like a husky with a big snout & wrinkles (so cute). She has chronic ear infections. We are considering surgery really soon. Right now she has been on Otomax antibiotic almost once a month. Then our other dog, also a shar pei mix, had kennel cough when we first got him. That took forever to go away. Our other cat, a male named mike, is getting overweight. He is a big kitty all around but, he's now going on a diet. We had to take him to the vet for stubborn hairballs. We love our pets, and would do anything they needed. Sometimes 4 of them can get hard to keep up with though. They are our babies. Can you believe, they actually let us share the bed with them (ok, its our bed, but you would never know.)
About our Kitty with the cystitis, our vet told us to put her on the expensive canned cat food. We bought a bunch She will not eat it, we tried all different ones, and different flavors. We even tried to mix it with her favorite food, still no luck. Her infection is gone though, at least for now. We are keeping our fingers crossed.
I hope your kitty will be just fine, give him kitty kisses. Mine cats love a good neck massage!!!!
As for sleep, I have slept pretty well in the past few days. Sure its 3:40 a.m. right now, but I slept most of the day. I'm going to have to find a night job now.
Sorry to hear you are having a hard time with your boyfriend. I do understand though. But, I'm not easy to get along with either. I think my fiancee and I are too much alike.
You're welcome for the response, like I said sorry I used your thread as a message to my fiancee. I was mad at him at the time, and I am impulsive.
Hugs to you too!!!!
Jodie
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