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[Geri]

Sophie just tried to jump over the saucepan stand, unsuccessfully. What a noise it makes when 5 saucepans and their lids fall on the floor!

 

[Epona]

As has been said, boarding at a clinic may be the answer. We had to do this one X-mas when one of ours had a necrotic tongue - the only time we were glad we had pet insurance as it was very expensive. While we didn’t have complete peace of mind, daily phone calls to check on her condition (and knowing she was in good hands) helped greatly. Hope it doesn’t come to that. Fingers crossed.

OMG, how did a necrotic tongue happen? Did it heal OK?

That thought is going to haunt me, what an awful thing

 

[seeformiles]

OMG, how did a necrotic tongue happen? Did it heal OK?

That thought is going to haunt me, what an awful thing

What happened was she must have jumped down from somewhere and accidentally bitten her tongue upon landing. Stoic old girl that she was she gave no signs of injury but, after being off her food for a couple of days, we noticed she was giving off a rather unpleasant smell - hence the trip to the vets. She had a general anaesthetic and had part of her tongue removed but otherwise made a full recovery . She was a rather messy eater for the rest of her life though.

 

[Epona]

What happened was she must have jumped down from somewhere and accidentally bitten her tongue upon landing. Stoic old girl that she was she gave no signs of injury but, after being off her food for a couple of days, we noticed she was giving off a rather unpleasant smell - hence the trip to the vets. She had a general anaesthetic and had part of her tongue removed but otherwise made a full recovery . She was a rather messy eater for the rest of her life though.

Oh that's awful, poor love, glad to hear she was ok though

 

[seeformiles]

Oh that's awful, poor love, glad to hear she was ok though

She lived 11 more years after that (Bless her soul!) before departing at the age of 17 . We keep her ashes on the mantelpiece - along with the bell from her collar <3

 

[stavros]

I would need a bigger sample than the one example I currently have to draw a firm conclusion. However, I have a feeling that coming in from outside soaking wet makes you more likely to want to jump on your pet human's lap, so as to pass the rainwater onto them.

 

[Manter]

So, we have one cat who needs to put on weight (the beautiful idiot cat) and one cat who needs to lose weight (madam funny face)

Idiot cat likes to graze lightly throughout the day- he piles into food when you first put it down, by then wanders back to have a bit more every hour or so. He has been unable to do that recently because the bonkers barrel cat eats it all.... so he is losing weight and she is wider than her whiskers.

So this weekend we have been giving him little bits of kitten food off a spoon, and putting food down for him every hour and then taking it away again so she can't heff it all. We can't do that during the week, so Team Eritrea are going to help out. They already think our cats are a bit weird and pointless and have now got uncontrollable giggles about the whole cat-weight-management thing.

 

[Epona]

Manter - I have 1 cat who has had post-surgical complications and anorexia (which I have posted about extensively, he's much better now) and the other 2, honestly I am not going to lie here or try to cover it up.

While I was doing tube-feeds on Radar 5 times a day and trying to get him to eat, I just bunged bowls of dry food down for the others and they gained some weight, a little more than they needed. They never got like massively obese, just that I did neglect to pay attention to what they were eating and how much for a couple of months.

I'm trying to transition all of them back onto decent quality wet food, which typically contains less carbs than high quality dry - so at least they are half and half in terms of diet. I am still feeding anorexia cat in a separate room.

I do think feeding wet and trying to get into scheduled feeding times is probably better and fits more naturally with cat life - just because a wild cat (or other similarly predatory being) wouldn't graze all day - they'd feel hungry which would lead them to activity to hunt stuff (this can be simulated with play with a wand toy, if a cat needs a little more exercise), eat stuff, groom, and sleep, then get up a few hours later and repeat that.

Play before a meal, to simulate hunting, can also help trigger appetite in a cat that needs to eat a little more.

 

[Vintage Paw]

Play before a meal, to simulate hunting, can also help trigger appetite in a cat that needs to eat a little more.

Can confirm. Sometimes I'll feed Peg (usually her evening meal) and she nibbles it but wanders off. So I start to play with her, she plays for about 5 or 10 minutes then goes back and eats her food.

She's overweight, but it's all very saggy skin-fat sort of thing. She's 6-6.5kg, and to be honest we don't really want her much under 6 because she is 'big-boned' anyway. She has 1/2 pouch of Royal Canin for breakfast, 1 pouch for dinner, 1 pouch for tea, and she has a few biscuits for supper to see her through. She always absolutely wolfs down her dinner, but that might be because she gets her favourite pouch flavour then.

 

[stavros]

Do any of the regulars on this thread know why another has popped up on the General Forum? It's almost like some don't know about this one.

 

[Vintage Paw]

The one about how many cats have you got? It's just a supplementary thread, isn't it?

 

[stavros]

Maybe, and maybe it's best that this thread stays the domain of relatively few of us. New entries are welcome, on condition of lots of kitteh photos.

 

[purenarcotic]

Why isn’t this my life.

 

[xsunnysuex]

So poor molly is diabetic. Animal hospital just called me with blood and urine results.
She also has a bladder infection that's needing antibiotics.
The worse part is, I'm going to have to give her insulin injections. Twice a day for the rest of her life.
The vet said she is probably feeling very ill.
I have to take her to the animal hospital tomorrow for the vet to see her. And for them to show me what I need to do.
Ohhh lordy!!

 

[Baronage-Phase]

So poor molly is diabetic. Animal hospital just called me with blood and urine results.
She also has a bladder infection that's needing antibiotics.
The worse part is, I'm going to have to give her insulin injections. Twice a day for the rest of her life.
The vet said she is probably feeling very ill.
I have to take her to the animal hospital tomorrow for the vet to see her. And for them to show me what I need to do.
Ohhh lordy!!

 

[fishfinger]

(((xsunnysuex ))) and (((Molly)))

 

[Manter]

I'm not sure where I'm supposed to sleep....

 

[trabuquera]

Oh poor Molly - and poor you xsunnysuex ... Really sorry to read this. Hope they can get her all stabilised and feeling a lot better soon.

 

[Manter]

Oh nightmare xsunnysuex poor mog


.

 

[ddraig]

yes, they're all mine, silly question hooman

 

[xsunnysuex]

Oh. Here we go!! Had two practice goes at the hospital Injecting her with water. First one did not go well. Poor Molly hissed at me.
Second wasn't so bad. Don't like!!

Edited. First one done!!

 

[Vintage Paw]

Oh sue, I'm so sorry you've got to deal with this! Does Molly mind being handled much? I have no idea how I'd be able to do that to Peg - she won't be picked up or manhandled at all. I'd have to try to do it when she was in a deep sleep on my lap or something.

Good luck to you and Molly xx

 

[xsunnysuex]

Does Molly mind being handled much?

No luckily she's a very chilled out cat. Very sweet girl. Thank god it's not Toby toes.
It's very dawnting. But it has to be done .
I got it majorly wrong first time I tried. And Molly let me know.
But this evening was ok'ish.

 

[Puddy_Tat]

(((( molly and xsunnysuex ))))

 

[stavros]

My first "gift" of the Spring arrived on my lounge floor last night, the somewhat soggy remains of what was a mouse. She always gets them cleanly though, never any blood.

 

[Vintage Paw]

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My attempt:

 

[fishfinger]

Thanks Vintage Paw
Here's my attempt:

 

[smmudge]

So Dylan's urine test came back from the lab, he has no bacteria in his wee. So blood in his wee and not an infection, and nothing sinister (apart from sediment and inflammation) shown in his bladder or kidneys or blood tests! He basically seems to be a very healthy cat that wees blood

Although seems to have stopped at the moment with the painkillers/cysticalm, but same thing happened last time and came right back again after we stopped.

 

[Epona]

So Dylan's urine test came back from the lab, he has no bacteria in his wee. So blood in his wee and not an infection, and nothing sinister (apart from sediment and inflammation) shown in his bladder or kidneys or blood tests! He basically seems to be a very healthy cat that wees blood

Although seems to have stopped at the moment with the painkillers/cysticalm, but same thing happened last time and came right back again after we stopped.

Well it's good that there's no infection at least! But FLUTD (Feline Lower Urinary Tract Disorder) is still a thing - can often involve chronic formation of crystals in the bladder and urinary tract that can cause inflammation and bleeding. There are a good number of online resources that can help in terms of giving advice about long-term management of the condition, stress reduction and diet are large factors. I have no personal experience to relate, but I believe wet diets low in ash, phosphates, and magnesium are helpful - there must be some useful online groups for dietary and support advice (no offence, but I don't think the fact that there is no infection is good enough if there's crystal sediment and blood present, when the condition can potentially be managed at least partially by diet), I'll see whether anyone I know can recommend a good site for advice

 

[Epona]

Radar finally ate some dry food this morning. Now I know I bang on about how wet diets are better, and they are - but the fact that Radar hadn't been able to pick up a nugget of his favourite dry food in his mouth since his surgery in early February was worrying - but this morning he managed it

I am hoping to transition him back to a mostly wet diet but with a little dry left down overnight so he doesn't feel driven to claw my head every 3 to 4 hours when he feels peckish