I feel too shitty to drive this cat to the vet.

[snarp]

Is "really smelly" a medical condition? Should I take this cat to the vet for being malodorous in my direction too frequently? What am I even going to say to the vet about this, "he smells worse than most cats. No you don't understand. I have had a lot of cats. He smells worse than most of them, at once."

"That is not a medical condition."

Comments

[malkingrey]

Tell him you're worried it might be a digestive issue -- that way it becomes a symptom, not a condition, and your previous cat-owning experience means that you have a nose for what's baseline normal for felines.

(Of course, you may just have an exceptionally smelly cat. In which case, maybe the vet can think of some kind of dietary change or supplement to, um, sweeten the effluvia, as it were.)

[lovepeaceohana]

It's worth getting checked out, since it may be symptomatic of a medical condition. Or maybe he just has really active anal glands? I've heard of that being a problem in some cats.