Eric is drinking the tree water!

[kittielittie]

so Ericcyboy who aged me by ten years recently with his acute renal failure is causing me more blooming grief!

He had a urethral spasm and apparently needs to have less stress in his life. He has and always has had the life of Riley and is now on a diet that gram for gram is more expensive than liquid gold.

i bought the water fountain (treated with the same level of disdain as the robot hoover). he has had ALL the best drugs until the vet said he's just taking the piss now and he does not need morphine and gabapentin for the shits and giggles any more.

he has baffled the vets with his rapid recovery and i do credit my entry level veterinary nursing crash course in part for his Lazarus like current status.

however, despite all the efforts i am putting in to look after his urethra, kidneys and overall well being at great expense and perplexing me daily on how much more chilled the little bugger can possibly be, he is drinking the christmas tree water. he is lapping it up like it's Bollinger about to go on the ration. he gets annoyed if i try and move him to better water supplies. and generally treats me with 98% contempt with occasional 2% tolerance.

will christmas tree water finish him
off or is it like pregnant women and he's seeking something that is missing from his glorious diet and could do him good?

hopeful photo of the 2% tolerance attached

i have 3…two of them will drink any water apart from the freshly changed (twice daily) water in their bowl. Particularly seem to love the skankiest greened standing water they can find in the garden.
id take this as a sign Eric has recovered!

Oh Eric 😍

@BamberGirl true! maybe he is telling me to stop bloody fussing woman! i mean i absolutely never googled how to give a cat CPR and have resigned myself to at least 15 years of hideous insurance premiums and his disgust at his 'worthy' but ultimately dull diet.

honestly, his brother Ernie who is the cat equivalent of SAS Heroes, eats anything and everything yet is as lean as a supermodel causes me no worries at all.

My older boy that managed to get triaditis and other stuff known by the vet as "weird Ollie things" would go to paddle (and drink) in my neighbours water feature

She knocked on when it broke to apologise "he might be thirsty, tell him another one is coming today"

He also nearly got taken into rescue when someone reported a scraggy cat sauntering across the zebra crossing. Thankfully local cat woman heard the word sauntering, rang me and said "is your Ollie out for a walk? I don't know any other cat that you would describe as sauntering..."

He cost me a fortune in food, I don't want to talk about the vets bills Tesco paid out at least 5 grand and was the bestest cat

I love the way you write, it has had my laughing.

But my cat drinks the Christmas tree water, I don't think it'll harm them at all! They just like the stuff they know they shouldn't be doing. I'm sure of it!

No idea about fir sap and cats but you do realise this means you will need a permanent Christmas tree 52 weeks of the year 😬

Aww lovely Ollie. Penelope is now starting to eat me out of house and home. And is rivalling my two old girls for their vets bills!

One of our cats drank Christmas tree water and he lived to 14.

My cat occasionally drinks water from the toilet. It doesn’t seem to have done him any harm.

Ah my poor boy Eric died a year ago today. Lovely to see his namesake.
Eric would drink from a dirty puddle given half a chance. He got to a decent age.
His successor Ernie is a happy boy and sometimes uses his water bowl to deposit a frog. Catseh!

@kittielittie I can’t offer any advice but just wanted to let you know I’ve been reading out your post to my DH and we’ve both been chortling - hope Eric feels better soon x

I also have a water fountain…. Saw my Bozzie drinking collected rain water out of the chiminea yesterday 😩

He’s a lovely weirdo boy OP.

The ginger one loves to lick water off the bathroom floor after I’ve had a shower.

I just do as I’m told and make sure there’s plenty of drippage. I find things generally work better that way.

i am duly keeping the tree water topped up to meet his Lordships requirements.
He is indeed a right little character aka weirdo!

Tree water drinking update!

Eric suddenly looked unwell and stopped passing urine. Emergency dash to the vets and he's possibly going into urinary spasm again 🥺

however, i did mention tree water drinking to the vet who said that was the least of his worries and if i try and divert him from drinking the tree water i could elevate his stress levels and cause more issues with the little bugger not weeing.

he's had some cracking drugs and is currently off his tits again.

More tree water drinking updates as they occur....

Awwww poor Eric, hope he feels better soon!

Eric has been admitted to hospital for the weekend for iv fluids and catheterising. more cracking drugs including methadone 😳 and the cone of shame.

Poor toot 🥺