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High Voltage
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Firstly, would that have been a CAT scan <bah-dum Tish!!! - thangyewverymuchI'mhereallweek>
Bob was diagnosed with a heart murmur shortly after I "acquired" him and that cost precisely - nothing. The vet just held a stethoscope to him and listened - "He's got a bit of a heart murmur" is what the vet then said
Which leads nicely to an observation about the increase in pet insurance and the, I'm convinced, MASSIVE increase in the cost of vets bills - which usually start with "Do you have insurance?"
I'll give you an example - our "local" vet (which we no longer use) was going to charge thick end of a grand to remove Jess's teeth - as she was an elderly cat at the time, they wanted this and that and t'other - ending up with a "That'll be £960 please Mr Voltage" and I could see that there would easily be a few little extras tagged on to that the presumption being, I'm convinced, that we had pet insurance
Now I didn't like this vet anyway - they were very rough when they initially examined Jess so I decided to get in touch with our "old" vet - some 20 miles away
EXACTLY the same operation with all the whistles and bells on it £300 odd - and they were much gentler and kinder and all round much nicer and Jess didn't mind a trip in the car, infact I used to stop half way, put a lead on her and let her have a little walk around at the side of the road (in the countryside not a town) where she could "use the facilities" IYKWIM
Anyhow it just seems that vets bills are going up at a much faster rate than they ever used to almost forcing people into having pet insurance - or is it that, like the NHS to a certain extent, that people's expectations are increasing so treatment is getting more and more complicated and the cost is increasing because of that
hot air baboon
Well-Known Member
...god what a monster...( the cat I mean )...looks like your sharing the house with the Beast of Bodmin Moor....
High Voltage
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Today is just going to be one of those days.
Last night I pan-fried some tuna steaks, I put the frying pan in the sink down the side next to the washing up bowl, and because I am monumentally lazy I haven't done washing up yet.
I just heard a load of crashing and banging noises and went into the kitchen, I had to fish Sonic out of the washing up bowl, he was trying to get to the pan that I fried the tuna in and fell in the washing up. He's now soaking wet. He was the one out of my cats that I credited with some intelligence too.
MUST . . . RESIST . . . POSTING . . . SOAKING . . . WET . . .
Too late
Cribynkle
squawk
The vet can diagnose a heart murmer with a stethoscope, the £800 tests are scans to see if what's causing the murmer, if it's because of cardiomyopathy, if so, what type and what treatment would help and whether the cat's in heart failure. And yes, they always ask if you have insurance and premiums go up if you have the tests.
Most heart murmers in cats don't mean anything, I had a cat who was found to have hypertrophic cardiomyopathy after a heart murmer was discovered. Most cats with HCM live long and happy lives with it if they're diagnosed early enough and get the right (cheap) drugs. We weren't lucky with my cat and she didnt last long but she was the exception rather than the norm. Before I had another cat with restrictive cardiomyopathy (RCM) (they think these are genetic problems, I didn't feed them lard or anything!) a more severe type with a worse prognosis. So both issues which could be detected through a heart murmer but have different treatments and prognoses
I'm wary of intensive treatment but the expensive tests can be useful and reassuring. For Manter she now knows that Idiot cat's murmer isn't anything sinister.
It's definitely always worth shopping around with vets though, we've got three virtually on our doorstep but now go to one three miles away because it's so much cheaper and they're really good
High Voltage
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Cribynkle
squawk
Manter
Lunch Mob
It was a very good one ;-)
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Talk about your life flashing before you eyes
We have "downstairs" garden which has been, to all intents and purpose, "cat proofed" in as much as Bob can't get out of it - this follows on from his last really bad, stressful, "session" where he got out of the "downstairs" garden and went missing for far too long - part of this cat proofing consisted of the installation of a child gate which keeps him in the downstairs garden and keeps him out of the upstairs garden and the road etc
This evening there's a knock on the door - this in itself is unusual as the entrance to our house you've really got to want to find and we keep the house deliberately dark - let's put it this way we don't get ANY Trick or treaters
Imagine my delight to be confronted by some poor unfortunate, collecting for some charity - now I'll normally chuck in a few quid - except this "chap" had left the child gate open - and I spotted it - and, whilst I didn't swear directly at him, I think he was under no illusions what so ever that the charity he was collecting for wasn't going to be benefitting from Chez Voltagé
And Bob was no where to be seen - so now we're faced with the terrible dilemma - do we shut the child gate and hope that he's just hidden in downstairs garden
OR
do we leave child proof gate open assuming that the little shit has escaped and will need to come back in
I would cheerfully have bludgeoned the charity chap with my maglite
Luckily, about an hour later and after much calming by the wonderful Mrs Voltz (and switching all the downstairs lights off) we both here the Click - - - Click of the cat flap and Bobbie Boo braves the terror and comes back into the house
So, once again, I can sleep - - - - 'ish
How you people with kids manage I just don't know
If I cared about kids - - -- I'd be a nervous wreck in seconds
We have "downstairs" garden which has been, to all intents and purpose, "cat proofed" in as much as Bob can't get out of it - this follows on from his last really bad, stressful, "session" where he got out of the "downstairs" garden and went missing for far too long - part of this cat proofing consisted of the installation of a child gate which keeps him in the downstairs garden and keeps him out of the upstairs garden and the road etc
This evening there's a knock on the door - this in itself is unusual as the entrance to our house you've really got to want to find and we keep the house deliberately dark - let's put it this way we don't get ANY Trick or treaters
Imagine my delight to be confronted by some poor unfortunate, collecting for some charity - now I'll normally chuck in a few quid - except this "chap" had left the child gate open - and I spotted it - and, whilst I didn't swear directly at him, I think he was under no illusions what so ever that the charity he was collecting for wasn't going to be benefitting from Chez Voltagé
And Bob was no where to be seen - so now we're faced with the terrible dilemma - do we shut the child gate and hope that he's just hidden in downstairs garden
OR
do we leave child proof gate open assuming that the little shit has escaped and will need to come back in
I would cheerfully have bludgeoned the charity chap with my maglite
Luckily, about an hour later and after much calming by the wonderful Mrs Voltz (and switching all the downstairs lights off) we both here the Click - - - Click of the cat flap and Bobbie Boo braves the terror and comes back into the house
So, once again, I can sleep - - - - 'ish
How you people with kids manage I just don't know
If I cared about kids - - -- I'd be a nervous wreck in seconds
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wobbly
well, she is a walk in stray, but we're 30 odd miles from bodmin.
she does look bigger in that pic than she is. she's a lot smaller than the biggest cat i've provided service to.
Puddy_Tat
naturally fluffy
Puddy_Tat
naturally fluffy
fakeplasticgirl
Keirleader
(not sure if this works)
hello, hello, hello, hello, hello...i kill you!
hello, hello, hello, hello, hello...i kill you!
Epona
Sonic: 1 Nov 2006 - 8 Jan 2022
My apologies if I have already mentioned this.
My cat Jakey has always liked me, been friendly and cuddly and sweet.
But since all the business with his tumour - including me physically forcing him into the hated carrier regularly, forcing him to wear an inflatable collar for 2 weeks, and not letting him out of my sight during that time - he has now become every bit as clingy as Sonic.
I can't get him off my lap (as soon as I sit down he wants to come sit on me and be cuddled), and he follows me round like a lost puppy.
My cat Jakey has always liked me, been friendly and cuddly and sweet.
But since all the business with his tumour - including me physically forcing him into the hated carrier regularly, forcing him to wear an inflatable collar for 2 weeks, and not letting him out of my sight during that time - he has now become every bit as clingy as Sonic.
I can't get him off my lap (as soon as I sit down he wants to come sit on me and be cuddled), and he follows me round like a lost puppy.
Mogden
I like tea
Is it the weather as well perhaps? I know I've trotted out this excuse already but my most aloof feline has spent a good part of the day glued to me, padding and cheek rubbing and the like.My apologies if I have already mentioned this.
My cat Jakey has always liked me, been friendly and cuddly and sweet.
But since all the business with his tumour - including me physically forcing him into the hated carrier regularly, forcing him to wear an inflatable collar for 2 weeks, and not letting him out of my sight during that time - he has now become every bit as clingy as Sonic.
I can't get him off my lap (as soon as I sit down he wants to come sit on me and be cuddled), and he follows me round like a lost puppy.
Epona
Sonic: 1 Nov 2006 - 8 Jan 2022
No, he's lived with us since January 2008 and although he has always been affectionate regardless of season or weather, he has never before demonstrated this almost obsessive level of "I love you and have to spend every second attached to you" kind of behaviour. I am used to that from Sonic (we had him since he was a kitten and he has always been like that), but for Jakey it has just been since his surgery/recovery.
EDIT: Radar (who is a more 'normal' cat in that he wants occasional affection, rather than constant) definitely gets a lot more friendly this time of year - he sleeps by my feet in summer, but when the weather gets cooler he wants to get under the duvet and be cuddled.
CRI
Registered Chooser
Breeze seems to have changed a bit since having her tooth out, but I'm not sure if it's that or the presence of Charlie dog. I found that sometimes when a guinea pig gets a new companion, their personality can change - one was very dramatic, a previously "spikey" pig became incredibly maternal when he acquired a baby companion. Breeze meows a lot more now, whereas before, that was rare and reserved for times she REALLY wanted to get our attention (e.g. "The tumble dryer is on fire!") Mostly, she meows at Charlie though, not us. She also completely flouts the rules about getting on counter and table tops - well, she will lay on something that's ON a counter top. For example, this evening, she napped for 2 hours on a large bag of carrots next to the coffee machine! She's also still eating dog biscuits.
Supervising Charlie's teatime
Edited to include evidence of napping on carrots.
She's also still eating dog biscuits. Supervising Charlie's teatime
Edited to include evidence of napping on carrots.
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Manter
Lunch Mob
he is a total tart, isn't he? Always makes me laugh that when visitors stop stroking him he climbs them to get more attention
Mapped
London town
he is a total tart, isn't he? Always makes me laugh that when visitors stop stroking him he climbs them to get more attention
It took me by surprise a bit, half way up my leg mewing for attention
They're a special breed those ragdolls, in more than one way.
Manter
Lunch Mob
They are thatIt took me by surprise a bit, half way up my leg mewing for attention
They're a special breed those ragdolls, in more than one way.
High Voltage
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I was under the impression that one of the uses a cat puts it's whiskers to is to make sure that it doesn't get stuck anywhere - - - which means that cat must be a right little porker
trashpony
Hag
He's not - he weighs a lot less than his brother. He's 90% fluff
High Voltage
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He maybe 90% fluff - but just look at the eyes - he must be the "brains" of the organisation
