Poor Mr. Pants!!

Well, as some of you may know, I had to take my kitty to the vet yesterday, because he was drinking a ridiculous amount of water. And when a cat does this, they either have kidney problems, or diabetes. I was hoping it wouldn't be diabetes, but, seeing as my cat was 19lbs at the start of this summer, I had my worries! He's now down to 17lbs, and the vet called this morning. Diabetes. I guess the vet starts giving insulin when a cat is at 250 on the blood scale. Mr. Pants is at 495! So, this afternoon Evie and I will be going in to learn how to give him his insulin shots. He'll need them twice a day. And he gets to go on some new high-protein food.

The vet also wants us to get a urine sample. Apparently the way to do this is by the vet giving us a handful of black rock-like things that we put into the otherwise empty litter box. The black stuff doesn't absorb water, so when he pees, we can dump it into the cup, and take it in. Mr. Pants hasn't peed in over 12hrs now! Can't say I blame him though, he probably doesn't want to go in the nearly empty box, and I'm sure he's still freaked out and annoyed that we took him to the vet in the first place. Though, the vet said that if he hasn't gone by our appointment this evening, that she can just get the sample herself, via needle. That'll work for me, though Mr. Pants will probably just be more pissed off! No pun intended...haha.

So that's the latest....and here's a fun pic of him for those of you that haven't met him in person. :)