tele_mark says:
Well, he's back at the vet again today. Monday, right after he finished his month long treatment for the last episode, I couldn't find one of these anywhere and suspected the worse. He started eating one after recovering from the first episode, so started hiding them after I found one 1/4 eaten. I let up my guard and forgot to hide it this time. Couldn't find anything, so assumed he ate the entire sponge. That night I came home and found a little bit thrown up.
The same symptoms came back, vomiting and runny stools.I suspect now that this may have been the cause of the first two incidents.l He had an x-ray this morning and it showed an obstruction in his big intestine, which is good, because when stuff get there it generally goes out. But he's at the vet for a barium study to make sure there's nothing obstructing his small intestine. If there is, he'll need surgery. I have more gray hairs today....
tele_mark says:
Definitely still feral, just harder to see. I still can't pick him up without surprising him, which is hard, and then he kicks and squirms, but doesn't panic any more.
pmgr111 says:
Where I last lived I kept a carrier assembled under the dining room table. One of my cats used to sleep in the carrier regularly. I believed at the time that it was her escape place from the other cat in the house.
tele_mark says:
I found him like this, just chilling in the cat carrier. I walked right up to him, reached in and petted him. No panic, didn't come flying out, just sat there like a real tame cat.