Cat Tales...
Monday night, my house was hazurai central. I tried to get to sleep, with three cats on the bed...Merlin, Freyja and Usna. I've declared the bed Switzerland, but that night it was more of a DMZ.
About 10pm, I suddenly wondered where Odhinn was. He couldn't be found. I looked everywhere. I even crawled on the floor, looked in the basement, and checked around outside. Nowhere. I pulled out the tasty treats that he ALWAYS comes running for. Nothing. WTF?
I started to panic.
Then, about 45 min later, he suddenly appears, huddled in the hallway. He seemed to be in pain and didn't want to be touched. As far as I knew, he'd only eaten what the others had eaten, and no one else was having problems. But he was moving all hunched over. Then I saw him licking his butt. Well, there was a HUGE mass of crap plastered over it. He couldn't clean it, and he wouldn't let me touch it. I tried to put a warm washcloth on it to soften it up. But that was not going to happen.
So, yes, my cat somehow managed to cement his ass shut. I know he's a long hair, and they occasionally get danglies. Hell, I've cleaned up a number of them (after all, Mischief and Freyja were/are both Maine Coons). But this was beyond anything I've seen before. Really. And I know it wasn't there that morning, because I'd brushed and groomed him. So he managed to do it sometime that afternoon/evening.
Also, since he seemed to be in pain as well, I wasn't sure it was the ONLY thing going on. I thught about taking Odhinn in to the Emergency vet, but that was going to cost about a million dollars, and honestly, it didn't seem life threatening. So in the morning (after no sleep), I made an appointment to take him in to my vet to be checked out.
All that was wrong with him was that he'd cemented his ass shut with crap. The ultimate dingleberry. No one can quite figure out how. But when they cleaned and shaved him (oh, the piteous cries!), they discovered that the reason he was in pain was that he was also constipated from the cemented ass.
Poor baby. I felt bad for his pain; but I had to laugh. Really hard.
About 10pm, I suddenly wondered where Odhinn was. He couldn't be found. I looked everywhere. I even crawled on the floor, looked in the basement, and checked around outside. Nowhere. I pulled out the tasty treats that he ALWAYS comes running for. Nothing. WTF?
I started to panic.
Then, about 45 min later, he suddenly appears, huddled in the hallway. He seemed to be in pain and didn't want to be touched. As far as I knew, he'd only eaten what the others had eaten, and no one else was having problems. But he was moving all hunched over. Then I saw him licking his butt. Well, there was a HUGE mass of crap plastered over it. He couldn't clean it, and he wouldn't let me touch it. I tried to put a warm washcloth on it to soften it up. But that was not going to happen.
So, yes, my cat somehow managed to cement his ass shut. I know he's a long hair, and they occasionally get danglies. Hell, I've cleaned up a number of them (after all, Mischief and Freyja were/are both Maine Coons). But this was beyond anything I've seen before. Really. And I know it wasn't there that morning, because I'd brushed and groomed him. So he managed to do it sometime that afternoon/evening.
Also, since he seemed to be in pain as well, I wasn't sure it was the ONLY thing going on. I thught about taking Odhinn in to the Emergency vet, but that was going to cost about a million dollars, and honestly, it didn't seem life threatening. So in the morning (after no sleep), I made an appointment to take him in to my vet to be checked out.
All that was wrong with him was that he'd cemented his ass shut with crap. The ultimate dingleberry. No one can quite figure out how. But when they cleaned and shaved him (oh, the piteous cries!), they discovered that the reason he was in pain was that he was also constipated from the cemented ass.
Poor baby. I felt bad for his pain; but I had to laugh. Really hard.