Thank you both. We did all we could for her, but it just wasn't meant to be. We're just focused now on ensuring her three brothers have a long fulfilling life.
Meet the latest member of our family, Oscar. He's about 10 weeks old and is already trying to assert his dominance over the other 3 cats lol. Absolutely fearless, he even has our 21kg Staffordshire Bull Terrier afraid of him 🤣
Great to see him settling in so quickly 😻
Enhance
OMFG, my heart.Meet the latest member of our family, Oscar. He's about 10 weeks old and is already trying to assert his dominance over the other 3 cats lol. Absolutely fearless, he even has our 21kg Staffordshire Bull Terrier afraid of him 🤣
Great to see him settling in so quickly 😻
One of my cats is really sick. Our vet can't figure out what's wrong with him. He's about 9 years old. No health problems in the past except that he has pica. He's got a compulsion to eat non-food items. This has made taking care of him very troublesome. We once took him to the vet to have nearly two feet of elastic removed from his guts after he ate a strap from one of my wife's dresses. That was about six years ago, and we haven't had an episode as serious as that since. couple of months ago he must have got into something especially bad, as since then he's lost nearly half his body weight. He has explosive vomiting and diarrhea nearly every time he eats. We've run blood work, X rays, and have an ultrasound scheduled for Friday.
I feel really bad for him and am ready to put him down. It's obvious that he's scared, and it's in his personality to seek comfort from his humans. Every time we leave the room he wails. As soon as we're there he's tucking his head into our palm or against our leg and he's purring. He's also desperate for food. He's been twisting his way into garbage cans and licking dust off the floor. He's emaciated. It is very clear he is starving.
My wife does not want to put him down. Every time I look at him it breaks my heart. I think she is being selfish, but I understand.
I'm not looking for anything with this post really, just need a space to talk about it. I'm less sad to lose him than I am to watch him suffer the way he is. We don't know for sure that he's sick due to something he ate, but I am quite sure that it's the leading possibility. The amount of shoelaces we've lost, the tags from pillows and blankets, the drawstrings on our garbage bags… it was a matter of time before he did himself in. Every time we thought we'd finally cat-proofed the house he discovered something new to chew on.
We've had him since he was only a few weeks old. He happened to be at the vet during a visit for our other cat; his mother had been found injured at the side of a road. We adopted him on the spot. I'd like to think he had a good life, and I am still hoping that maybe we'll find some way to make him feel better. But honestly I'm not sure he'll even make it to his ultrasound on Friday.
My Buddy
One of my cats is really sick. Our vet can't figure out what's wrong with him. He's about 9 years old. No health problems in the past except that he has pica. He's got a compulsion to eat non-food items. This has made taking care of him very troublesome. We once took him to the vet to have nearly two feet of elastic removed from his guts after he ate a strap from one of my wife's dresses. That was about six years ago, and we haven't had an episode as serious as that since. couple of months ago he must have got into something especially bad, as since then he's lost nearly half his body weight. He has explosive vomiting and diarrhea nearly every time he eats. We've run blood work, X rays, and have an ultrasound scheduled for Friday.
I feel really bad for him and am ready to put him down. It's obvious that he's scared, and it's in his personality to seek comfort from his humans. Every time we leave the room he wails. As soon as we're there he's tucking his head into our palm or against our leg and he's purring. He's also desperate for food. He's been twisting his way into garbage cans and licking dust off the floor. He's emaciated. It is very clear he is starving.
My wife does not want to put him down. Every time I look at him it breaks my heart. I think she is being selfish, but I understand.
I'm not looking for anything with this post really, just need a space to talk about it. I'm less sad to lose him than I am to watch him suffer the way he is. We don't know for sure that he's sick due to something he ate, but I am quite sure that it's the leading possibility. The amount of shoelaces we've lost, the tags from pillows and blankets, the drawstrings on our garbage bags… it was a matter of time before he did himself in. Every time we thought we'd finally cat-proofed the house he discovered something new to chew on.
We've had him since he was only a few weeks old. He happened to be at the vet during a visit for our other cat; his mother had been found injured at the side of a road. We adopted him on the spot. I'd like to think he had a good life, and I am still hoping that maybe we'll find some way to make him feel better. But honestly I'm not sure he'll even make it to his ultrasound on Friday.
My Buddy
We got the results back from Friday's tests. He's been diagnosed with lymphoma. Lost another pound in a week. He's clearly miserable. My wife wants to keep him on B12 shots and steroids. I am not sure what difference it makes.
Yeah. It hit me more than I thought it would. We've had him almost 10 years. He's always had a big personality, and watching him depressed and wasting away really hurts.
Not as far as I know. My wife took the call and I don't think she'd tell me, because she knows where I stand. It's not something I'm going to fight her about, but to me, to keep him alive suffering like this is clearly not for his benefit.
He stayed for a few hours and I washed both the mats and the clothes I was wearing. I'm not particularly worried but it's one of those things you think about. Thanks for the reply.
ask and ye shall receive!
😻ask and ye shall receive!
Bonus kitten photo from when she was still at the Fresno SPCA
So many beautiful cats in the last pages 😃
Anyway, kitty update!
We are growing strong and big and we are full of energy!
Unfortunately we hit a little snag.
He started having some flakes on his skin on various places.
Got him to the vet, the vet took samples and advised quarantine while we waited for the culture results. She thought that's propably some kind of fungus.
Not life threatening or very serious but contagious.
Which sucked, because we had just started socializing him to the other pets and letting him roam the house.
So, kitty got back in quarantine and we did a thorough house cleaning, thankfully we had removed the carpets cause of the summer last month.
Got our results on Thursday, it is a fungus and we started medication, although he seemed to get over it by himself, he had already stopped flaking and fur was growing back to the affected areas, but just to be sure.
The treatment is a week of medication, a week off and then another week. And that he should stay in quarantine until the end.
Which I really really really don't want to do (the quarantine thing).
He's at the age where he should be running around the house and socializing with the other cats and dogs, not staying closed off in the guest room.
I'm thinking of asking the vet to do another culture on Thursday, first week of medication is done then, and then release him if we don't have any growth in a few days... Although the vet said that the results come between 2 and 14 days...
Don't know what to do 😐
Anyway, here's some quarantine kitty pics
