well, this sucks - Cat worries

[Lonemagpie]

Had another call- they're keeping her till 4:30 just to be sure she doesn't throw up the food she's had (and so that regular drop-in surgery hours have passed). I'm to phone them then, and if nothing untoward has happened they'll let me go and get her.

 

[pigletsgiblets]

I hope your kitty gets better soon.

 

[Kira's Mom]

Poor kitty! Hope she feels better soon.

 

[JiNX-01]

Pretty kitty!

It is really upsetting when our "babies" get sick and have to be hospitalized. I hope B'Elanna will be home and on the mend soon!

 

[KimMH]

What a roller coaster! Still keeping my fingers crossed for you lest you should receive another contradictory phone calll!

 

[Lonemagpie]

Bel's back, with a couple of days' supply of "sensitive" recovery food, and instructions to keep her indoors over the weekend, and call the vet with an update on how she's doing round about Tuesday/Wednesday, or earlier if we're worried.

Which means I'll worry until then. I think they're still a bit cautious over the bloodwork, and I'm just hoping that whatever caused her to get sick and dehydrated doesn't recur now that she's off the drip and home.

She's eating the recovery food, not throwing it up, it's out the other end OK, so I guess those are good signs. Keeping everything crossed anyway.

 

[RJDiogenes]

Sounds like good news all around. I'll keep my fingers crossed that she will continue to be okay.

 

[auntiehill]

Sounds like very good news. If kitty is eating as usual, then things are looking up.

 

[captcalhoun]

i know how you feel. my kitty Shade has a liver condition we have to give her tablets for and last year she had ulcers in her eyes and one burst. she's now a one-eyed cat, but she's adapted very well and is back to normal.

 

[Lonemagpie]

Sounds like very good news. If kitty is eating as usual, then things are looking up.

She's back to mugging the others for their food again...

She's not drinking as much as I'd like to see, but that's probably because she was on an IV until yesterday afternoon and the recovery food is very hydration-intensive.

Last night she totally refused milk, but this morning she had a couple of sips. I know that excessive thirst is a bad sign in cats, and that appetite would go before drinking would as far as dehydrating her her again is concerned, so I'm not too worried, but I'm keeping an eye on her.

The only references on the net I could find to pets eating but not drinking (rather than the other way round) was one in the same situation - having just come off an IV, but drinking returned slowly after a day or so.

But since she's eating, and her appetite is increasing, I'm hoping that'll keep going and she'll get a normal thirst back. (Obviously I don't know how much water she's drunk overnight, if any.)

But at least all the evidence does point to the dehydration and being off her food messing (briefly) with her kidneys rather than the other way round.

ETA- it seems to be just milk specifically that she's not fancying much - she seems to be perfectly happy to drink the juice out of tinned tuna...

 

[bigdaddy]

My cat did that a few times, like 4, and we just had to give her pills for 10 days and she got better in 3ish days. It was amazing. We force water through a test tube dipper. She lived an extra 3 years.

 

[May 20]

Since she's confined to inside for the weekend, can you check her output rather than her intake? If she's going potty enough, then she's getting enough liquid in whatever form.

It works for small children; maybe it would work for cats, too.

 

[Lonemagpie]

Since she's confined to inside for the weekend, can you check her output rather than her intake? If she's going potty enough, then she's getting enough liquid in whatever form.

It works for small children; maybe it would work for cats, too.

She's using the litterbox.

She *is* drinking - at first I thought she wasn't because she was refusing milk (which she'd been demanding almost exclusively over the last few weeks), but she happily drinks the juice out of tuna cans when offered it.

Hard to tell whether she's drinking plain water because there are dishes around the house so she can easily be doing so when we're not watching.

 

[freak]

i also had a cat scare earlier. One of our cats got underneath the cabinet and got into something and then started throwing up phlem for a few moments. The good news is that he still wanted his food and water but it was tough to watch him dry heave up that stuff. Yuck! So we're watching him carefully and i'm checking on him every so often.

 

[RJDiogenes]

i know how you feel. my kitty Shade has a liver condition we have to give her tablets for and last year she had ulcers in her eyes and one burst. she's now a one-eyed cat, but she's adapted very well and is back to normal.

Ouch. Poor thing. When my Cat got hit by a car, he was blinded in (and eventually lost) one eye. He went through a few days of bounding up for the arm of the chair and missing, but he eventually got the hang of it.

 

[Lonemagpie]

A week on, she's behaving completely normally- I might actually be able to unwind slightly...

 

[KimMH]

^Time to break out the string! Glad to hear she's doing well!

 

[RJDiogenes]

Wonderful. I love good news.