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Protecting my eyes ARRRR!!!
Omg, poor thing. He wasn't eating his prescription food, and giving him his pills was a nightmare. The vet I took him to the other night has a pet supply store in it, mostly foods. So I figured that they would be the experts in feeding issues. The woman was able to look up his charts and get all his info. She said that the food the vet gave him tastes like crap, and they just started getting in a more palatable brand the other day. She said I can return the other stuff even though it's open, and get my money back minus a 25% restocking fee, so I was happy about that. I'm not sure if he's eaten the new food yet, but he did sniff at it when I opened it, and looked slightly more interested in it than he did in the other food.
Basically she told me that the food he's on now can harm the other cats (it makes the urine very acidic, to dissolve the stone), so I really do need to isolate him. She said she had to do the same thing for one of her cats for 4 weeks (Max will be a few months, probably - 6 weeks at the least), and it's awful and it sucks, but it's necessary to make them healthy again.
I'm going to try to let him out for a few hours a day. I'll put his and the other cats' food away (it makes it harder because they're used to being free-fed, they don't have meal times), and he can hang with the group for a while.
She also told me about a nifty thing for giving pills, it's syringe-like, and it enables you to get the pill far back in the throat, so that they can swallow it without having to taste it. She didn't have one in, but I picked one up at another store, and it made pill time SO much less traumatic tonight.
Thanks for asking. You guys are probably getting tired of my cat drama.
Not tired at all. So glad she sounds like she really helped. Max and you.