Mindy & Max
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So...Max, my diabetic kitty, is still doing just fine with his sugars, and totally OTJ. I checked him last night and he was at a beautiful 84, about 3 hours after wolfing down his dinner. 
BUT...someone in our house has been bleeding. I think it's coming from the mouth as it is watery. We've found it in the bathtub on multiple occasions in the last week. I've checked both cats' mouths, and neither one of them fought me more than they usually would (no hissing, no biting, no swatting), and I couldn't see anything amiss. We've now found a few blood spots (again, watery) on the carpet in the bedrooms (we have laminate everywhere else in the house, and with the dog tracking in snow regularly, we've been mopping a lot...so no surprise to not see blood anywhere else, really).
Now my instincts are saying the blood is coming from Max, but I don't know why. And yesterday DH and I actually caught Max squatting like he was peeing on the landing of the basement steps (there is carpet there as well and is not a highly-trafficked spot). There WAS a wet spot there, but it was not bloody.
Truman, on the other hand, has herpiviral conjunctivitis (sp?). We have some lysine gel that I give him when this flares up, which it has been over the last week or so. We only notice he's having a flare because he starts 'winking' at us--the infected eye blinks almost twice as often as the other one. And when he was diagnosed, the vet said it would flare anytime he was sick or had an injury (the diagnosis came shortly after Max scratched the edge of his eye, about a year and a half ago...and no flares since then).
Neither cat has a visible injury. Both are acting normal (other than Truman being 'winky'). One of them has had some mild mushy poo a few times over the last week, but the boxes are in the basement and we don't see who is using them at any given time. Both cats are eating normally. Both seem happy, tho they have been fighting a bit more than usual.
My dilemma: Which cat do I take to the vet? I can't take off a whole day from work (I work 40 minutes from home, and the vet is near home) to take them both in, and I can't take them both at the same time. Truman has to be given Benedryl before going and he still freaks out, which freaks Max out, and then they both end up being un-examinable because they're growling and biting. Any suggestions?
BUT...someone in our house has been bleeding. I think it's coming from the mouth as it is watery. We've found it in the bathtub on multiple occasions in the last week. I've checked both cats' mouths, and neither one of them fought me more than they usually would (no hissing, no biting, no swatting), and I couldn't see anything amiss. We've now found a few blood spots (again, watery) on the carpet in the bedrooms (we have laminate everywhere else in the house, and with the dog tracking in snow regularly, we've been mopping a lot...so no surprise to not see blood anywhere else, really).
Now my instincts are saying the blood is coming from Max, but I don't know why. And yesterday DH and I actually caught Max squatting like he was peeing on the landing of the basement steps (there is carpet there as well and is not a highly-trafficked spot). There WAS a wet spot there, but it was not bloody.
Truman, on the other hand, has herpiviral conjunctivitis (sp?). We have some lysine gel that I give him when this flares up, which it has been over the last week or so. We only notice he's having a flare because he starts 'winking' at us--the infected eye blinks almost twice as often as the other one. And when he was diagnosed, the vet said it would flare anytime he was sick or had an injury (the diagnosis came shortly after Max scratched the edge of his eye, about a year and a half ago...and no flares since then).
Neither cat has a visible injury. Both are acting normal (other than Truman being 'winky'). One of them has had some mild mushy poo a few times over the last week, but the boxes are in the basement and we don't see who is using them at any given time. Both cats are eating normally. Both seem happy, tho they have been fighting a bit more than usual.
My dilemma: Which cat do I take to the vet? I can't take off a whole day from work (I work 40 minutes from home, and the vet is near home) to take them both in, and I can't take them both at the same time. Truman has to be given Benedryl before going and he still freaks out, which freaks Max out, and then they both end up being un-examinable because they're growling and biting. Any suggestions?
