Two rushes to the vet here lately: the first was for Calico, who was frantically scratching and licking at herself. The vet found a single dead flea on her (she and the others had just been given their flea-preventative meds) and determined that she's allergic to flea bites. We never saw any fleas or flea evidence, but we sprayed the house and washed all the bedding, rugs, and cushions anyway. Hoo-boy was that ever fun - not! Anyway, Calico had a course of antihistamines, and antibiotics for an infection the vet found, and she is better now. She goes back for a follow-up next week.
The second vet trip was yesterday, for OrangeGuy. I actually had to take him twice. For no apparent reason he suddenly had a complete freak-out hissy-fit the other night. He yowled and hissed and growled at us and his siblings and used the kind of alley cat language not suitable for polite company, and tried to hide under the furniture. He has never done anything like this before. We calmed him down, and I took him to the clinic first thing yesterday morning. The vet examined him and didn't find anything physically wrong. She said that something may have spooked him and that adrenaline rushes in cats last a lot longer than they do in humans - up to 24 hours. That was an interesting bit of trivia I hadn't known.
I took OrangeGuy home. Then he peed on the carpet, which he had also never done before. The vet managed to schedule him back in for the afternoon, so back we went. She examined him again, and said he likely has inflammation in his bladder, and prescribed an anti-inflammatory medication. We'll have to give him that for a few more days. He does seem to be doing okay now; no more freakouts. I must say I'm really relieved that it was nothing worse for both kitties!
Larimar
