deird_lj

I have a sick cat, and a disgusting kitchen.

...these two things are not unrelated.

Elf has something wrong with his urinary tract (something which, from my description of it over the phone to the RSPCA, was enough to make them say "Get him to the emergency animal centre NOW!").

I discovered this because he started peeing indiscriminately over all my stuff, including my denim jacket, my pyjamas, my clean washing, and my bag. The bag being white, I also discovered that his pee had stained the bag pink - hence the emergency centre.
And the E.A.C. doesn't come cheap. I just spent a large portion of my savings on getting my cat some painkillers and muscle relaxants.

...which kicked in on our way home, on my passenger seat. Did you know that, if you give a cat fluid injections to hydrate him, and then inject him with other stuff to help him pee a lot, he won't care if he's sitting on a very nice car seat when it all starts having an effect?

Anyway, the stuff he was given also caused him to throw up a lot.

I also need to take him to the RSPCA in a day or so, to have them check a urine sample. This means that, first, I need to get him well-hydrated. The E.A.C. has given me lots of tips on how to do this.

...so.
I have confined my cat to the laundry and kitchen (ie - all the bits of my house without carpet) in the hopes that whatever mess occurs will at least be easy to clean up.

Elf is not happy about this. He is very bored.

My kitchen currently has:
- wee all over the litter box, the floor, and anything even vaguely fabric-ish
- vomit all over the floor, wherever he happened to feel queasy again
- a plate of bikkies, softened with water in the hopes that he'll get fluid into him through those
- a plate of bikkies, softened with milk - same reason
- a bowl of water
- a shallow bowl of milk
- a shallow bowl of tuna brine (this, and all the above scattered round my floor so that hopefully he'll get hydrated... he's currently ignoring all of them)
- kitty litter. All over my floor. Where Elf has scattered it out of sheer boredom...

...I miss him sleeping on my feet.

And I miss my tidy kitchen.