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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Attention On Mikey

This is Mikey, My Outdoor Cat

Mikey is my totally outdoor cat.  He does not like to come in at all.  Oh he will sneak in but he makes a very fast beeline to the other door which is about 12 feet from the other door.

Don't get me wrong because he is not a stray or feral by any means.  He was born outside and that is where he chose to live all his life.  He is 8 years old now.  He only ventures out of the yard to my neighbors across the street.  He likes to chase mice out from under my neighbor's sheds. Otherwise he stays near the house.

Well we have had a go around and a time of it the last couple of days.  See Mikey doesn't get sick, he never gets fleas and he is the most healthy cat that I have ever had.  I don't know why his system is different than any of the many other cats that I have had, but I like it.  He hasn't been to a vet since he got fixed in 2008.  No need.  This time he was close to being taken to the vet though.




On Thursday I noticed that he licked a spot on his back close to his right haunch (thigh).  I looked at it and it was just a poke, small and I thought it was from another cat when they fight, but I do not think that was the case.

It was bad enough for me to do anything with. The next morning he had licked at it so much that the sore was a small hole and it started to bleed.  Well I had to bring him in to get that fixed up.  He wasn't too cooperative with that deal.  He cried all night.  I couldn't get him to stay still enough and stop licking it.

The next morning he had it the size of a quarter.  I tried to tie something around him so that the Triple Antibiotic ointment that I put on his sore would stay there.  No such luck.  It was grating on my patience.  We did go to a vet and got that collar, but he broke that within an hour.

Then I finally got him and cleaned him up and put more ointment on him and added a bit of Vicks so that he would not lick it.  Oh my goodness that cat is stubborn!  He got that tie off within 5 minutes!  Mind you by the time that I got a hold of him this time his sore was a gaping hole.  I was at my wits end.

This is Duke when he was much younger
and had his black mussel

Mind you that morning I tripped over my dog Duke and was very sore. As I came down I was grabbing for something to break my fall.  We have half doors and I hit the one side of the left door and caught it on my neck and shoulder.  I managed to get up,  I do not like falling because I have had three DVT's an in the same leg that I fell on and bruised my knee.  That was scaring the beegeebee's out of me and I watched my leg all day for any signs of the red veins going up my leg.  Thankfully that did not happen.

Duke is now in some pain and we had to give him his pain meds last evening and this morning.

Finally something came to mind to use on Mikey that I forgotten that I had.  I got these to put the cats in if I had ever had to give them a bath.  It  is called a Klaw Control Grooming Bag It did not come to mind to use it on Mikey so that he would not lick his sore and it could heal up.  Now putting it on Mikey was a challenge in itself.  It took us two times before we got it on him.  Oh he was not a happy camper when we finally did.  He acted like we killed him or something.  He would not move or anything.  I thought that I hurt him in some way.  So he slept in that all night and he did not like it.  This morning though when I got up, he was able to eat his tiny bit of canned food with meds in it.  That was a good sign.  Then I did let him out of the crate to walk around.  I knew that he could walk around because when I held him last night he moved his toes and he stretched in my arms.  Silly for making me think that I hurt him when I did not.  He did walk around and he drank water, which he had not wanted to do the last couple of days and he actually ate the kibble.  I opened the back door and let him get fresh air through the screen door and he did potty and he is making a whole lot better progress.  I am happy that he will heal.  She still isn't happy because he wants back outside.  Once he heals in the next couple of days he will go back outside and everyone will be happy campers!

Mikey, Mikey, Mikey in his younger days.

© Debra K. Allen a.k.a Lady Guinevere

I researched and wrote this article. Please do not copy and paste any part of this article, picture included for your own use. I will find you and report you for stealing.  It is my right to change any information therein at any time and/or change the location of my article.