Sometimes when I sit down to write the blog, I leaf through the photos from the week to remind myself of what happened. A thoughtful review of this week's photos indicates that we basically played with kittens non-stop. Not a bad way to spend a week, when you get down to it. We had been keeping the kittens downstairs in our office, but this weekend we decided that arrangement was too inconvenient and that they were sufficiently oriented to their new living situation that they could have the run of the house. Poor Daphne is still not totally on board with this new development, particularly since Donut likes to take a swipe at her with his paw, or bite her tail when it twitches in his vicinity. But, she is coming around and is definitely not unduly stressed. Our plan of getting two young cats seems to have paid off in that they mostly play with each other and leave her alone. Mostly.
Today marks the end of our third week of Cayston, and with Lemon back to baseline we're going to stop treatment now and see how he does. Given that it's only October I'm sure we'll have many weeks in the not-so-distant future to do three treatments a day, so if we can take a break from that grind for a few weeks now I'd just as soon do it. We've been continuing to hammer away at nutrition, and he's finally back up over 38lb, ie, we're once again where we were in June. With any luck maybe we'll get up to 39lb before the next cold hits.
We did have one "interesting" issue this week, which is that starting in the latter half of the week, we started noticing the occasional appearance of puddles around the house. They were too big to be kitten-related, and at first we thought they might be related to our new refrigerator with its tempting water dispenser and the imprudent use of open-topped cups, but they kept showing up in places where there were no cups, and far from the refrigerator. We observed, gathered clues, interviewed witnesses and suspects. All of which led to one conclusion: Lemon had been intentionally peeing at random locations around the house. Seriously? What is this? I was on board to do diapers and potty training and accidents. But intentionally peeing around the house? In his brother's bed? Nope. He seems like pretty much his usual self otherwise, and most of the time still uses the bathroom like a regular person. So what the heck? At the moment our only strategy is to positively reinforce the potty and hope that this behavior goes back to from whence it came, but any suggestions would be welcome!
