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lighter:
Oh Hops she looks like she's on a great adventure..... heading into her day...... busy and on the job, really: )

Maybe a little red cape for her service visits?

Lighter

sKePTiKal:
Oh, the power of animals to heal those places it's hard to reach... this is why I'm so obsessed with trying to get mio-mio back to normal.

It's pretty clear to me, now - she is just having problems "going" and controlling it. The embarrassment is why she's hiding from me. When I go visit her - she wants to suck up all the lovins I want to give her. And she LOOKS like there is just nothing wrong with her. Canned fish and oil on her kibble is helping to soften the poops (and I have cod liver oil on the way to simplify that new routine) but the reason she moved her hiding place, is she peed her bed. Which was right next to the litter box. 2 ft away. So had workers here all day yesterday and because she'd always been a puter kitty, closed her in the office. It has a big window with a wide ledge she can sit on and a door that gets sun in the afternoon.

I'll bet this is the result of her stealing & eating toilet paper. LOL.

Hopalong:
I'm really sorry your kitty's still having trouble, Amber. SO frustrating for you and for her.
Vet no help? No UTI, no nothin' diagnosable? Could it be just a reaction to moving/uprooting?
Are her kidneys okay?  :(  Speaking of pix, maybe if we had one of her, we could send her
healing energies? Who knows?

Lighter, I love the little red cape idea for pooch. She's not reliable enough to BE a service dog,
but who says she couldn't wear the costume? Hmmm. Got me thinking for Halloween....Florence
Doginggale...

Her funny body is extra-long. I sometimes call her the extruded dog. She's part corgi, so got
that face and torso, but fortunately part beagle too, so she got real legs and a real tail. The rest is Traveling Salesdog. (My mother always had corgis, knowing deep withiN that she was royalty of
course, and those adorable things had to run around on stumps all day....sweet dogs though.)

What I loved about the glamour shot was that the photographer, a young woman with serious
equipment, lay down on the bricks downtown to get that angle. Gave this short little dog such
gravitas. I thought it was a brilliant move. I also love that the old bank where I used to go with
my Dad as a tot (soaring ceilings, all the marble) and where I have my safe deposit box now,
is in the background. And a cafe I'm often at with her and friends is just beyond.

It's my happy place and she's my happy pooch. Last night I was at a cafe there with friends and
a man at the next table was just in love with her. "Accidentally" dropped a big swatch of salmon
skin. (This is why she loooooves going downtown...) Enough said or y'all will start thinking I'm
obsessed.

Busted.

Hops

sKePTiKal:
If you're gonna be busted for something, it might as well be doting on your pet, right? I think it's good for us to exercise that emotional muscle; keeps it flexible and functional. ;)

So often, I read the memorials from crusty, gruff old guys for their dogs - and even they are totally heartbroken. Shamelessly blubbering like little girls. In public even. With not even a second thought for their reputations as "tough guys".

The vet couldn't get - and I didn't think to take a urine sample during our visit. He did give her a 7 day antibiotic shot that helped. He couldn't find a thing wrong with her physically or in the blood work, but he suspected a UTI. She has always been a skitzy fraidy cat - preferring to hide under my bed or in my bathroom if we had company. Even from Holly - who is a cat whisperer. It took her 5-6 years to let Mike pet her.

So it's POSSIBLE that she's gotten better from the infection but because she's smart enough to know that she had potty issues - and is now self-conscious about it - she is a little neurotic about the whole episode. (Animals are like their humans, right??? LOL) I've cleaned her box, right down to scrubbing it in case there were any germs and have always kept it scooped out. I'm beginning to think I need to try some plain old clay cat litter - instead of the tiny clumping stuff. There's an urban legend that when they clean their feet, after being in the box - they ingest the little granules and it does it's thing in their digestive system. The vets say no; that's not possible - as do the litter companies - but I'm running out of ideas here. LOL. The only other thing I can think of is that's had a kitty stroke of sorts and has simply lost complete control over what comes out when... but then, that's not quite right either.

It's a hilarious picture: but she runs through the house like her tail's on fire and shoots out "kitty snacks" while she's running... which is why I thought maybe some gentle stool softener would help. In case she's expecting it to hurt. I had to order cod liver oil, I didn't have any in my kit - so it should be here soon. In the meantime, I use an eyedropper to add a little olive oil to her kibble, and give her half a can of good oily fish cat food a day too. She seems to prefer salmon but will eat shrimp.

A friend passed on his vet's tip for for UTIs... just crushing a little Vitamin C into the water bowl. Guess who overdid on the second day? LOL... getting the dose right for an 8 lb cat by guess & by golly wasn't cutting it - so I found a homeopathic remedy at chewy.com - no color, taste or smell and I saw it had uva ursi in it so I've been trying that for a week. Last night, she got plain tap water for a break.

For whatever reason she seems to be "claiming" the downstairs as her space since I've gotten a lot of boxes gone and floor space back. It's not that she can't come up the steps - she's being hardheaded and doesn't want to. And I've caved and made her comfortable down there.

No; I'm not obsessed... LOL. The hardest part has been learning to just leave her be to rest and let her "hide" - it's her instinct when she's not feeling great - but only in a few places that it's not difficult to get her out of, when I have to confine her for work going on around here. She's lasted this long without stopping eating - so she must be drinking/peeing somewhere - and she's not lethargic; just not hanging out in the upstairs main living space.

lighter:
:::SIGH::::..

So I wake up this morning to the Pug restless, and unsettled.  I think.... maybe she has two legs through one harness leg hole?

  I take it off..... she's still headbutting me and my pillow...... doing something odd with her hindquarters.  This is after she was shaved, and bathed yesterday..... and then we went on a nature walk down by the river.

I take a closer look at a spot I THINK is darker than the rest....and...... there's a huge tick near her neck, over her front leg..... OMG!

  I touch it and the legs start moving.

::skin crawling::

  I'm not the type to let things like that sit. 
I get a match.
I light it. 
I get the not still hot tip to the tick....Pug moves anyway, and I fail.

::dropping head::

Then I have a thought... GLUE GUN!  The really HOT kind.  I won't have to worry about lack of heat in this equation, no sir.
 
I load Pug's little pink Kong with almond butter.... a lot.... which was the smartest thing I've done today, then plug in the glue gun.

What could go wrong, right?

So, as I'm frustrated over the no longer moving bc it's glued into PUG fur TICK, and
 :shock:
I find 2 more smaller ticks, which makes me mentally wring my hands..... I can't get a very large tick out of pug skin.

::skin crawling::



Well, there's three non wiggling ticks on a paper plate.......I must of figured it out....
 it's a blurr, frankly.

The pug is napping off her trauma. 

I'll tick check her undercarriage once she's finished. 

::sigh::

Amber I'm hoping you get your kitty feeling better.  Maybe the water in your new area is bothering her?  Maybe purified water will help? 

Lighter

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