Libby and Lucy
Member Since 2009
I had a day off, so what better way to spend it than at the vet? Lucy has been peeing on my bed. She did it 4 times in the last week. I’m 95% sure it’s behavioral, because she is tired of Jazzy being here. I wanted to get rid of that 5% of doubt, so off to the vet we go for a urinalysis. Easy, right? Ha!!!
One delightful thing about Lucy is that she gets stressed in the carrier. So stressed that she urinates the second we get outside. She pooped too, so they couldn’t even use that urine as an unsterile sample. I had to leave her at the vet all day so they could keep trying to do the cysto. They tried twice, then called and said they would try again at 5:30. That’s seven hours after I left her, surely she would have some urine by then, right? Oh no, that would be too easy. Sometime between 3:30 and 5:00, she peed in her cage. They had put NoSorb in the litter box, but leave it to Lucy to find a way to get the urine absorbed before they could get it. Yep, she laid in the box and soaked up the pee with her fur. :roll: So no urinalysis today. I’m going to try to get an unsterile sample in the morning, thinking that it’s better than nothing. I’ll just put her in the carrier, walk out to the car, then come back in and syringe the urine out of the carrier. Should work. ;-) And if we do manage to make it to the car without her peeing, I’ll drive the 4 blocks to the vet’s office and rush her in for the cysto. I know the sample really needs to be sterile and obtained via cysto, but she does this every time she gets in the carrier, so odds are that we would have the same thing happen tomorrow. Vet did get a good look at her bladder on the ultrasound and said it looked fine, just was very small.
Since she was there anyway, I went ahead and had her annual bloodwork done. All is well, a couple of things were a little out of range but the vet wasn’t concerned about any of them. I’ll have to dig out last year’s results to compare.
The one big thing the vet said is that Lucy needs to lose weight. She has actually lost since last year, but she is still 15.5 pounds and probably should be 10-11. Now, I will preface this by saying that I always tell people how much I love my vet. She doesn’t even sell prescription foods (will write a script if you really need it) and pushes EVO as the preferred diet most of the time. So what did she do today? She wrote a prescription for R/D or W/D for weight loss!!! Ummmm, do I want to feed my diet controlled diabetic food that ranges from 25-37% carbs? No, I don’t think so. I did notice on Janet & Binky’s chart a Royal Canin calorie control that is 8% carb, so I might check into that instead. Ingredients don’t look great quality, but then again neither is the Fancy Feast she is eating now. Has anyone tried that food?
Another day in the life of my diva girl. Please can I have a clean bed tonight?
One delightful thing about Lucy is that she gets stressed in the carrier. So stressed that she urinates the second we get outside. She pooped too, so they couldn’t even use that urine as an unsterile sample. I had to leave her at the vet all day so they could keep trying to do the cysto. They tried twice, then called and said they would try again at 5:30. That’s seven hours after I left her, surely she would have some urine by then, right? Oh no, that would be too easy. Sometime between 3:30 and 5:00, she peed in her cage. They had put NoSorb in the litter box, but leave it to Lucy to find a way to get the urine absorbed before they could get it. Yep, she laid in the box and soaked up the pee with her fur. :roll: So no urinalysis today. I’m going to try to get an unsterile sample in the morning, thinking that it’s better than nothing. I’ll just put her in the carrier, walk out to the car, then come back in and syringe the urine out of the carrier. Should work. ;-) And if we do manage to make it to the car without her peeing, I’ll drive the 4 blocks to the vet’s office and rush her in for the cysto. I know the sample really needs to be sterile and obtained via cysto, but she does this every time she gets in the carrier, so odds are that we would have the same thing happen tomorrow. Vet did get a good look at her bladder on the ultrasound and said it looked fine, just was very small.
Since she was there anyway, I went ahead and had her annual bloodwork done. All is well, a couple of things were a little out of range but the vet wasn’t concerned about any of them. I’ll have to dig out last year’s results to compare.
The one big thing the vet said is that Lucy needs to lose weight. She has actually lost since last year, but she is still 15.5 pounds and probably should be 10-11. Now, I will preface this by saying that I always tell people how much I love my vet. She doesn’t even sell prescription foods (will write a script if you really need it) and pushes EVO as the preferred diet most of the time. So what did she do today? She wrote a prescription for R/D or W/D for weight loss!!! Ummmm, do I want to feed my diet controlled diabetic food that ranges from 25-37% carbs? No, I don’t think so. I did notice on Janet & Binky’s chart a Royal Canin calorie control that is 8% carb, so I might check into that instead. Ingredients don’t look great quality, but then again neither is the Fancy Feast she is eating now. Has anyone tried that food?
Another day in the life of my diva girl. Please can I have a clean bed tonight?
