Cat Jr's kidney stones get taken out on Wednesday. The first vet's plan was to first try thyroid pills to see if that was the only problem, then antiinflamatories, and then start shelling the bucks for X rays. From now on, to hell with that. If either cat gets sick, I want full diagnostics on day one and something done within a week.

Jr's in for a major spoiling afterwards. I really feel like hell for letting him suffer for 4 weeks. Update: $1.5K down, and another thousand afterwards. Ouch. Got nothing against Angell Memorial. In fact I like them a lot. But I'm calling Porter Square Vets tomorrow. If they can schedule it as quickly. Next update: Porter Square wants ~$1K less. If they can schedule it early enough I'm going with them.