You may remember that I’ve had difficulty traveling with my cat in the past. He clams up and refuses to pee… which can’t be good. But this time around, I followed my vet’s advice and launched a full scale attack in the first battle of the Kidney Wars.

When we arrived at our destination, I fed him a gruel of two parts water and once part Amazingly Wonderful Wet Cat Food, or AWWCF (that’s the cat’s name for the food, and I thought he’d know better than I, since it smells pretty vile to me). Then I let him sip some real chicken broth that my mom had made by … boiling a chicken. Then I have him some more of the AWWCF, followed by a handful of his dry food … doused with water.

The cat’s reluctant kidneys were no match for this onslaught.

Tonight, after arriving back at home base, the second offensive in the Kidney Wars is beginning, and I look forward to a voluminously successful outcome.