keep moving

I realized yesterday that I had a number of beads in my stash with colors similar to Shula's. Wound up getting some supplemental beads and making a ring with those colored beads in it as a kind of remembrance so I could do it without feeling mawkish.

( Knowing him, he'd try to paw this thing off my finger and swat it around the kitchen until it wound up under the stove. )

Well, he's still hissing when he gets out of the litterbox, but only a little, and he's using it properly and not working himself into operating in reverse, so I'm declaring victory. The Purina One Urinary Care food is off the list permanently.

I think I need to talk to the vet again. Shula keeps having problems when it's time to take a dump. I've been giving him Laxatone regularly, and I've been adding pumpkin to his food, and he still only tries to go every other day- and works himself into a state where he briefly operates in reverse first before spending the next twenty to thirty minutes crouching anywhere other than his litterbox. I'm assuming the litterbox avoidance is due to him associating the attempts and the location with pain, as I'm told that happens with cats, but the rest....

He's had trouble before. He's had to stand on his hind legs to go as long as I've known him. If he's got an internal defect I need to accommodate to make this easier for him, that's fine. I'll deal with that. I just need to know what I need to do for him.

(At the moment he's purring happily in my lap, having made horrific messes in the kitchen earlier when I was trying to get some Saturday morning sleep. Ah well. He's a good boy and I love him. I just want this to be easier for him.)