Sabby has been hospitalized. The vet (I finally got the vet my old vet recommended) felt some hard stool just beyond the rectum. He's going to be treated to several enemas today and it that doesn't do the trick they're going to manually extract. He's also going to get another fructosamine while he's in there and he's going to get his annual physical exams and testing. Dr. Carlson asked me to call him this afternoon to see how it's coming along. Maybe he can come home tonight. Dr. Carlson recommended putting 1/4 teaspoon of Metamucil in his food every day instead of the canned pumpkin.
I said I'd let you know how much weight he lost at his six-month checkup. Well, since he went today, I'll tell you now. He's lost three pounds since he started eating Wellness canned exclusively. He's now 16 pounds, 2 ounces down from 19 pounds even. And that's with all the poo still in him.
While I was at the vet, a woman with a two-week-old kitten came in. She found the kitten with its (dead) littermates when he was only 4 or 5 days old. She's been nursing him ever since. We talked about cat food, litter, and declawing. I recommended Wellness canned (though I don't think I sold her on it), S'wheat Scoop and World's Best Cat Litter, and convinced her not to declaw her cats. Besides the fact that Sabby's in the hospital, I feel pretty good.