You'll get the meaning of the title when you listen to the episode. I'm celebrating day 422 of alcohol retirement and I discuss our eldest cat, Tashi, and his "movement" issues when it comes to trying to release his bowels.

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This is episode 42 of Call Me Donovan, recorded Monday, July 22nd, 2024.

And welcome to another episode of Call Me Donovan. I am, of course, Donovan.

And today is day 422 of alcohol retirement, which, when I looked at the calendar,

I thought it was funny because today is the 22nd of July and 422 days of alcohol retirement.

I don't know. Made me chuckle. You may not think it's funny, and that's okay.

Probably will try to make this one a short one.

My wife and daughter have taken our eldest cat. I'm pretty sure I've spoken about him in a previous episode or two.

His name is Tashi, and he's approximately 15 years old.

And he's been having some issues of late. This will be his second time going to the vet.

The very first time, honestly, that he went to the vet was earlier this year.

We were talking about it earlier, and I believe it was sometime in February.

His cheek, I think it was his left cheek, started swelling up.

So they took him and not sure what it was. They cut out maybe an abscess or something.

Anyway, he healed up fine from that. No issues whatsoever.

But we've noticed over the last few months that the poor boy has had an issue, well, taking a shit, basically.

And it really came to a head, so to speak, over the last five or so days to where he would just literally try to pop a squat.

And I mean, the boy, the old dude was giving it the old college try and he'd scrunch up and nothing had come out.

And he got to the point where he, at first, before all of this really started happening, and I may have mentioned this before,

he normally would stay upstairs with my daughter. And the litter box was upstairs in the bathroom upstairs.

Well, he got to where he no longer wanted to go upstairs, and all of a sudden he started camping out in a small little vacant area in my closet.

And he did that for about two or three weeks. So we put a towel down and he could hang out there and sleep there.

And then one day, one afternoon, we couldn't find him and come to find out he had relocated to a smaller little cubby hole in my wife's closet.

So that that's been his hangout for like the last two weeks, I think.

And then about a week ago, he decided that he was going to start hanging out under her bed.

Now, luckily, he can't he really can't hang out under my bed because I've got it's cluttered.

There's a couple of firearms, some other stuff, mainly weapons.

It's from my from my dad when he passed away.

So there's really no room for him up under my bed. But her up under her bed is pretty much pristine.

There was there's nothing under there. So he started hanging out there.

And bottom line is he hasn't actually had a bowel movement in since about Wednesday or Thursday of last week.

And he's basically just staying up under her bed.

He will come out, go get some water, go to the litter box and urinate.

Maybe try to eat a little bit of food, but not a whole lot.

I mean, you can imagine if you're backed up, the last thing you want to do is eat.

And then he'll go back and lay back down up under her bed.

And when he does, well, you can tell. I mean, he's he's not very stable.

So we decided that take him to the vet today.

And the last thing I heard from them, they're over. Matter of fact, as I'm recording this, they're over there right now.

We go. We live in Tifton. We we use the vet that's over one of the vets is over in Osceola.

Actually is the same office years ago when we had all of the cats neutered in spade.

And I think I've brought this up before, but we did so many of them that the doctor, the vet actually gave us the last one for free.

We did like 18 or 20 of them. Yeah, I know. I was I was a little crazy.

So anyway, it's it's a different vet, but I think related to the original vet.

Anyway, our one and only visit so far, which she back in February went well.

So, of course, took him out over there. And what they've told me so far is that he did get an X-ray, which that did not surprise me that he got an X-ray.

The thermometer has not been his friend twice.

My wife said he backed way too much turd, as she said.

And of course, my last word, sir, well, we figured. But the question is why? And that's the last thing they told me.

So at this point, I don't have any further information.

I don't know if they're going to have to keep him overnight or if the X-ray is going to to show something as to why he's backed up.

Is there a blockage? What you know what's going on?

Hopefully they can do something for him, because, I mean, I know I know he's up there in age, but we still want him to hang around for as long as he can, because he's he's like my daughter's child now.

It's ironic. He's the cat that I kind of wished for years and years and years ago.

And he's made the rounds.

He when my son Tyler was still living here, he would hang out in his room and then he got to where he was hanging out in my daughter's room.

And then, of course, Tyler moved to Washington state.

So Tasha would just hang out in Oriana's room. And now for the last, I'm going to say, month, month and a half, he's been downstairs with us in our room, either in my closet, her closet and here recently under her bed.

We did get a different litter box and moved it into the utility room, which that necessitated me doing some stuff with my networking rack, which got all that taken care of.

I moved it from a floor rack, which I think I talked about this, but I don't go back and try to review the previous things I've said in other episodes.

So if I do repeat some things you've already heard, my apologies.

But I put a wall rack up and that worked out really well.

So we have more floor space, cleaned all that up.

And now there's, oh, there's a litter box in there.

So basically, that's it. That's that's the update.

We're quickly approaching the end of July.

Like I said, today's 422 days of alcohol retirement for me.

And things are still going well in that regard.

Temperatures have come down a little bit, but technically the temperatures themselves have not come down all that much.

We're still hitting eighty nine, eighty eight to ninety degree days.

But the heat index, the real feel is not like ten degrees hotter.

I think it's well, let me look.

Yeah, weather app says it's currently 90 degrees, but it feels like ninety four.

All right. That's not bad. Over the past couple of weeks, we've had 90 and 91 degrees where it's felt like a hundred because of the humidity and what have you.

The heat dome. But yeah, I think that's I think that's it.

Like I said, a shorty one.

Just wanted to say hello. Give an update on where I am in my alcohol retirement journey and update you a little bit on.

Our cat, our indoor cat.

We have two outdoor cats and then one that took up here that it's not part of our original brood, if you will.

So that's where we are. All right. Well, thank you for taking the time to listen to this little short podcast and get an update on me and my life.

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I hope you're doing well.

And I'll talk to you soon.