What A Dirty Job!

Talk about a dirty job.  I had one this morning.

I haven't even had my first cup of coffee.  There was a lot of commotion in the living room area and I was not even awake just yet.  I thought that Mikey was trying to go poop in the litter box. Boy was I surprised when I did get up about 10 minutes later!

There was this awful smell looming in the air of the house.  I tried to see if they had used the litter boxes and there was some in one but not that bad of a smell.

Charlie

Though Charlie makes an awful smell and we KNOW when he has pooped in the litter box.  That smell comes out before he is even done with his dirty job.  His poop is distinctive and makes your eyes water. Nope it was that.










I hear Mikey screaming and yelling and I try to find out where he is because it sure did sound like he was in a mess of trouble.  He was under the kitchen sink and trying to get out of it but got his leg stuck. Before I got to where he was I saw the trouble and I didn't want to see that kind of trouble before I had my first cup of coffee.

Duke 4 4 2015 Easter 2015

Good thing is was not on our Asian rug,  Some was but it was more solid than the other stuff by the back door, in front of Duke's Food bowl and trailing into the kitchen.  He had pooped in the Klaw Kontrol Bag.

He was under the kitchen sink and trying to get out of it but got his leg stuck.  (We don't have wooded doors in our kitchen.  We have curtains instead.) I cleaned up the floor, but the more that I cleaned up, the more I saw him leave it behind him.  I knew he had tried to go poop in the litter box, we have four of them, but that red cat sak just was in the way.


I knew what I had to do and I also knew that it was not going to be fun, for Mikey or for me, but it had to be done.  I had to do this alone, but it would have been great if I had some help.  That never happens because I am the only one home with all the cats and dogs all day long.  My husband leaves for work just before 5 in the morning and doesn't usually get home until after 3 in the afternoon.  Sometimes it is more like 4 or 5 in the afternoon depending on if he has errands to do.  So I fill the kitchen sink up with warm water and some Dawn dish washing liquid.  I have to clean up around the sink area as it is rare that I do not have anything on or around my kitchen sink.  I do occasionally but since we live here and I am here all day and have all these things to do and write, it gets to be a catch all.  You can see why in the picture.

So I get the sink half full and go and feed Sunshine,
who is on the front porch and Frederick whom is waiting to be fed on the back porch.  Oh it is hard getting back inside from the back porch because they are french doors and a sliding screen door on the outside.  Mikey is fast enough to come greet me, actually almost run over me to get back outside.  He slipped out the other day but I caught him with the handles that are on the top of the Klaw Kontrol Bag.  No way was I going to lose him before I get that sore to heal up some.

Sunshine April 6, 2015

Frederick April 5, 2015

Bath time!  I put his back end in the water and of course he fights with me.  It is so easy with that cat sak on and I wash his backside off.  He must have a cut or sore or did something to his tail because every time that I touch it or lift it he yells.  I don't have the time or a way to see what is down there because I needed another person to hold him up.  That was not happening.  So I wash with a washcloth and think that all the poop is out of and off of him.  I put him in the other side of the sink to spray him off and find that I didn't get it all and he is pitching a fit.  He has pooped on one side of it and on the same side that his sore is on!  There is a turd in there and I had to get it out without getting him out of it.  So I tried to turn the cat sak inside out, it was not easy and I didn't get it all out, but I did get the turd out.  I sprayed it really good.  Well as good as I could get being as I am only one person doing it and need 3 or four hands which I don't have.  The water was coming out clean.  I dried him off the best that I could  and put him back in the large crate until he dried off, which will be a few hours.  I did feed him and he is set for the day for now anyway.

I must tell you that since I brought him in Thursday, he has not had a bowel movement and he was on anti-biotics. He stool was a little loose and I think that was his problem  If it had been hard I think the stool would have pushed itself out through the back end of the cat sak.

This is just the very beginning of my day and wonder what the rest of this Monday is going to bring.

Well, now I can go sit down and have my cup of coffee.

© Debra K. Allen a.k.a Lady Guinevere

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