Princess and the Pee

[stephbg]

First the good news: for the last week I can definitely confirm that Princess' pee has not had any visible blood in it. And in other good news, today we caught the aforementioned substance on one of the puppy housetraining absorbent pads we put out near one of the litter tray stations.

The bad news is that Princess now regularly fails to make it to the tray to pee.

In related good news, Handee paper towels are *really* good at absorbing pee after the event.

Will I stop talking about cat pee any time soon? No.

After about the third accident within the same small distance along the approach to the back trays (helpfully highlighted in bicarb powder) I got Husband to lay down newspaper and a couple of puppy pads. This morning I discovered a wet patch in one of the spots he missed. Argh.

Not long ago Princess let out one of her most distressed howling noises so I went to investigate – she was on a couch in the spare room having a wash, so I checked the danger area and there it was, a wet patch on a puppy pad. Yay! Or Damn! I replaced the pad and beefed up the defences a bit more.

She's now gone 5 or 6 times in the same relatively small area, and I'm starting to wonder if her bladder is failing her that regularly (i.e. always within a couple of seconds of safety), or is she starting to consider that patch of ground part of the legitimate litter area? She's never been a digger or a burier, so maybe the absence of litter wouldn't serve as a clue. She's always been nervous of her own productions – literally running away as soon as her business is done, with no scratching or sniffing.

She's chock full of antibiotics still, and getting regular steroids – I wonder what more, if anything, can be done for her?