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Great! Just ordered!

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Too much! it would be great to see a video of these two playing.

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Thinking on the best way to terrorize the technicians.

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This is the surgeon's dog, Bella. She weights about 3 pounds.

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Ambercat after seeing his first dog -- Bella -- up close.

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Ambercat was much less depressed when I went in this morning. The good news is he's coming home tomorrow morning. The bad news is he has to wear the collar for 10-14 days, and the catheter has to stay in that long too. So he's going to be confined to 1 room because he's going to be dripping from the catheter, and I don't want him rough housing while he's mending. It's going to be a tough 2 weeks.

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And, at this point, the vet doesn't seem too concerned about the internal leak, so hopefully I'll get an update on that later today when I visit him.

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The vet texted me this right before they closed and tucked Ambercat in for the night. This is apparently after his "bath" they give him daily to clean off the mess from the catheter, and he has his collar on for the night. Not too happy here! Vet said he's doing fine. Bringing him some of his food tomorrow along with another toy and a blanket they all sleep on.

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He just said that that particular food -- the Blue Buffalo dry grain-free, is the most associated of any dry food with this problem. He didn't elaborate if it was just in his practice and experience, or if this has been substantiated by a bigger study. The irony is that I bought this 2 months ago because the Taste of the Wild dry grain free was giving Storm some urinary problems. None of the other cats have had problems with the Blue Buffalo. And, all my cats have had UTI's at one point or another over the years. This is the first full-blown blockage I've had.

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And this was the day before his blockage.

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I went to visit him this morning. He's doing fine. He was depressed when I walked in, but cheered right up when he saw me, so he knows he's not abandoned. I had to leave after about 15 minutes because he was quickly "spooling up", even on the narcotics they have him on. He should be home in a few days. They're just waiting for his kidney levels to come back down.

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To clarify, his bladder is fine. No issues except for the blockage. But, he has a pinhole leak in this urethra in a point that's inaccessible, which was apparently caused by the blockage, and allowed some urine to get into his abdominal cavity, which is why they opened him up. The strategy now is to leave a catheter in just past the point where the pinhole is, so that hopefully the hole will heal closed. He was fine last night -- this pic was taken at about 8PM. He was asleep by the stove, and woke up at 11 PM and just started going to the litter box continuously. There was absolutely nothing at all about his behavior to suggest anything was out of the ordinary.

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I can't believe how quiet it is without him literally bouncing off the walls. I'll post an update tomorrow when I go there to visit him. I called in sick tonite, no way I could go in, and leave the others alone.

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Well, this is bad. After they catheterized him and drained his bladder, they did an xray and ultrasound, which showed he had fluid in his abdomen. They feared his bladder might've been perforated, so they had to open him up. They found the source of the leak is a pinhole on his urethra, which is not accessible. So, he has to stay catheterized and hospitalized until the pinhole hopefully mends. They did drain his bladder successfully. They're pretty sure that the cause was probably the Blue Buffalo Wilderness Grain Free food I switched to a month ago, so please avoid this stuff.

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Ambercat is being hospitalized for several days at the vet. He was fine last night, then suddenly started making repeated trips to the litter box without success. This morning he was very distressed. He has a complete urinary blockage and I took him in this morning.

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This is what's known as Velociraptor Mode.

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After 1.5 years, he suddenly noticed the ceiling fan yesterday. I can just see this is another possible disaster waiting to happen.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5kBn__MfKM

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That's a big rabbit!

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Big girl. Maine Coon?

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Oops, my mistake. I thought Scrappy mistook her for another Bella who used to be on here, who looked very similar. I just realized YOUR cat was named Bella!