Cat-astrophe

Aside from the usual horsey feeding, goat feeding, and checking on the garden to see if *crosses fingers* anything is actually starting to sprout in there. Unfortunately it has been cold the last few days and rather on the rainy side with a bit of snow mixed in. Thankfully, thus far, we haven't had any snain - snow + rain = snain. And then it happened. Our Cat-astrophe. Accio, the nasty housecat, decided he needed to pee on one of the newspapers on the table. Upon finding it we discovered that instead of pee, it was actually blood. Not pee mixed with blood. Not pee with a pink tint. But actually real, red, blood. We booked him in for an emergency vet visit and went in at 2:30pm to see the vet. They palpated his bladder hoping to get something, and took his temp then put out a litter box with a product called "no-absorb" in it, which is a litter that is made out of plastic pellets so the urine just falls through it for collection. Miraculously Accio went in the litter box in a matter of minutes so we finally got a sample out of him. The vet did a urinalysis and it came back as negative for any crystals in his urine. The vet was a little concerned that instead of blood mixed with pee he ended up urinating only blood and quite a bit of it.

After the urinalysis we had the vet do an x-ray to see if he had any stones scraping his urinary tract and came up with nothing on the x-ray. The vet came back and mentioned that Accio could have something they call "Chronic Urinary Inflammation" which is something the vet community has no idea what causes it but that it does happen and its not particularly life threatening, but needs to be treated to avoid other complications like a secondary infection. Accio may also have a Urinary Tract Infection to go along with this. She gave him an antibiotic and some anti-inflammatories and we've come home with him but she did say we may have to entertain the idea that Accio could have a mass, so in 10 days we're to take a urine sample and bring it in and then based upon the lack of blood or the presence of blood we'll have to make the decision to have him ultrasounded.

For now the beastly cat is living in solitary confinement in my room. As I type right now he is knocking things off shelves and occasionally lounging on the bed in his normal lounging fashion.

Aside from all the cat drama, tomorrow we are going to the other vets office to take the puppies in for their first shots, vet checks, and some talk about deworming.