Everybody poops! Or, do they?
This entry is for all my baby-makin friends out West who now only talk about poo and the babies that make it.
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Tio Pepe was a bit distressed Sunday night. He was straining to go #2, and was puking up whenever he ate food or drank water. Memories of his near fatal urinary track crystals in '03 and the clear discomfort he was in led me to take him to the emergency vet at 1 a.m. that night. (It was perfect timing for a visit from Brother Buttwipe!)
Tio Poopy is a beautiful boy kitty with the softest fur in the world. He has good genes, but he is also a meticulous groomer. This combined with a little summer dehydration caused him to have giant rock hard hairball poos stuck in him so that he couldn't go. Some fun quotes from the evening, "he couldn't have passed that on his own." Just what did they do in that back room?!? Was it an emergency, I wondered out loud? "I wouldn't have wanted that in there." I got to see the x-rays and everything. GIANT POOS ON FILM! $205 worth of Poo to be exact.
I've been giving him some medicine for a few days, and now finally this afternoon, he has had his first poo since they wrenched one out of him on Sunday night. Yay!
Go Tio Poopy, Go!
I haven't had time to figure out how to get my photos from my camera to my computer, since that whole interdevice communication thing broke down, but here's an oldy but goody of Tio in the dryer at my old Bothell apartment.
Comments
Wow... $205 worth of giant hairball poos, huh? That's some poo.
I've actually never had Bobbin's poo appraised. If smellier is better though, hers are near priceless when she's sick.
Posted by: heather | September 25, 2006 2:27 AM