49 days ago · Life · hide · Fediverse post

Did you know, if you have a lot of cats who share litter boxes, and you need to bring in a sample from the litter box for the vet, and you’d really like that sample to be from The Specific Cat in Question, you can FEED YOUR CATS CRAYON SHAVINGS so that you can tell whose litter box sample is whose?? What a world. What a world. In related news, I have spent time today whittling curls of four different, brightly-colored crayons into bowls, and mixing the shavings with highly-enticing CANNED FOOD, because I need a sample from ANOTHER possibly-ill cat. To review. We have FOUR cats. Two are ORANGE and OLD. The other two are BLACK and YOUNG. One of the two young black cats is being treated for what is probably FIP (Feline Infectious Peritonitis, which until recently was 100% fatal, but now there is a Very Expensive Prescription that usually cures it). He SEEMS to be recovering beautifully, but his kidney-size and his bloodwork tell a different story, and the vet has warned us that the…

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