revid | So that was fun...NOT

So I get home today and notice what appears to be a few drops of cat urine on a leather couch...hmmm, not good. Then I notice my 11 year old orange tabby Pumpkin, keeps going to the litter box every 10 minutes and sits there for a minute, then leaves...with no urine output. I ping

_somniac_ and she tells me what I sort of already knew...

not good, especially for a male kitty.

So I dilly-dally for a little bit more, but realize nothing is changing, even though he looks OK and is acting pretty normal (i.e. annoying me while I'm on the computer.)

I bring him to the Pet ER and they do blood and urine testing and an ultrasound and find...not much. He did have a fever, so she suspects a urinary tract infection. So she puts him on an antibiotic (amoxicillin/clavulanate -- the human brand name is Augmentin) and gives him kitty narcs (buprenex). He's home now looking rather...subdued, but OK. I'm still traumatized, however. Not to mention $400 poorer.

Of course, he once again lives up to his nickname: PITA-cat. (That's Pain In The Ass). I'm leaving tomorrow evening for Ohio to go see Alkaline Trio in Chicago with

koneko41 and

booshgal33. Fortunately one of my friends will come in every day to check on him and give him his meds.