I’m thankful that…
… our emergency vet could see us today, at 7pm, when I saw that Serval had blood in his pee.
… the wait was only about 30 minutes to be seen, and then they only had him in the back (running some test) for about 90 minutes after that. I brought my book and read almost 100 pages of it. We were home a little before 10pm.
… we have the $1,000 for the visit, tests/procedures, medication and it won’t negatively affect us ahead of the holiday season.
… that Serval is not in immediate danger, and will probably be okay.
… that we can afford the special “urinary tract health” food he’s going to need… for the rest of his life.
We’ll see how thankful I am tomorrow, when I’m trying to get him to take 1.5ml of antibiotics from a syringe. 😬
YIKES. I’m very glad Serval is okay, but yikes to the rest of this. I’ve been so stressed about Charlotte (we finally take her to the vet tomorrow) but this post is making me glad that we waited for our pet insurance to kick in.
Good luck with the antibiotics. Do you have to give it to him with a syringe? I’m going to link to these creamy treats that all cats seem to LOVE, if there’s any way this would make the process easier:
https://inabafoods.com/cats/churu/
We get them at the pet store, but they’re also available on amazon.
Glad Serval got overall good news. Best wishes for fast adjustments on everyone’s part re the syringe future! Glad you had book to read and made good progress.
Oh nooooo. Poor sweet kitty. That sounds really stressful. I’m glad that you have found so many positives in an upsetting experience.