I asked Joe and he says "Aw, sure" so I'll be sending him some kitty-pix later on today. Stay tuned!

Here's the latest installment of the Litter-ary Digest:
So I took Rupert Rex the Little Prince to the vet on Friday, and the vet tested him -- not his stool -- for Giardia (took a swab from inside Roo's rectum). Roo did NOT look at all happy about it. He was a bit bug-eyed, in fact. Anyway, the test was negative for the big G and for a couple of similar diseases, the names of which escape me at the moment. Yay!!

When it came time to discuss some of the dietary suggestions made here, my vet vetoed them all. Based on the symptoms (color of stool, mucus in stool, lack of internal gurgling), he concludes that the problem is occurring in the large intestine. The chicken-and-rice and egg ideas work for small-intestine problems, he says, but for large-intestine issues one needs to increase the fiber content of the cat's food. So it's all dry food and Bene-fiber for Roo all weekend, and then a call to the vet on Monday to update him on any progress.

And I did see the beginnings of progress this morning: slightly darker color, more tubular and less puddly. I'm hopeful that we're finally getting on the right track.

The bad news is that Roo is too young to be given any prescription medications to slow down the large-intestine digestion process, such as Imodium. The vet says that dosages of such meds are not available for cats smaller than 5 pounds, and Roo weighs in at 3.1 pounds. So we have a Catch-22 situation where we have to regulate his digestion so that he can grow so that we can give him meds to regulate his digestion... so that he can grow!