My poor Kitty

[canadian mojo]

Our one cat had been acting odd for a couple of days and then flat out refused to come out for supper last night, so we knew something was very wrong. He has feline urinary syndrome so being afraid that it had come back I snagged him and started poking him in the bladder to see if it was painful. He couldn't have cared less until I noticed that the tip of his tail was matted. I didn't even get close to examining it before he told me to fuck-off and ran away. Where his tail bumped the ground, it actually left a small bloody smear.

At that point it was obvious that he had managed to hurt himself and that it probably had become infected, so we got the vet to squeeze us in this morning. Turns out he hurt his tail badly enough that the bone was exposed and had to have about an inch of it amputated.

Apparently the drugs they give cats are really good, because right now he's running around and jumping onto the fridge from the kitchen table and having a grand old time like nothing happened.

So I'm out $300, but at least I get to laugh at him for a few days because he looks like a big dork with the bandage on his tail.

[SimSim]

Poor kitty. At least he'll be fine.

[Paradox]

Poor kitty I hope having an inch lopped off his tail doesn't mess around with his balance or anything.

[Green-Eyed Lilo]

I'm so sorry you had to go through all that (and spend all that!), but I'm very glad that the cat will be all right. Those cat drugs sound fiercely powerful!

[Napoleon the Clown]

Give the kitty a good scratch of the ears for me. When he calms down some.

[antichrist]

Ooh, poor kitty.

I think he may be feeling pretty good. He's gone from having an infected torn up tail to one that's stitched and bandaged. Yeah the drugs help too. But hey, he's got to get his balance figured out with the new tail.

You could always add some nip to the mix for an extra fun night.

[perv]

Ouch! Poor kitty indeed. Any idea what happened to him?

Well I wish him a speedy recovery. I guess losing an inch of tail isn't so bad in the greater scheme of things, but it most have hurt hell.

[maanantai]

Poor kitty But at least you can be sure, that he's getting better already.

I've always wondered what's up with those cat medications/drugs since they seem to have instant effect. And why don't they have such a powerful stuff for people too?

[canadian mojo]

Poor kitty's balance is just fine, I guess an inch doesn't mean much for balancing because his leaps are as graceless as they ever were.

I think I'll pass on the nip for a while. The reason I'm up and typing at 5:00 am is that the little bugger sent the water bowl sailing about 45 minutes ago. We've got three cats and a dog, so we use a big bowl and he pretty much emptied it from 2/3's full. Of course it ran under the fridge and under the laminate floor along the wall where there is a bit of a gap. (note to self: run a bead of calking along the wall)

I think he heard how much the vet bill was so he knows I won't kill him so shortly after spending that kind of money.

We have no idea how he hurt himself. He's an indoor cat and hasn't gotten his tail stepped on or caught in anything in recent memory. He probably scratched it fighting with the other male we have and it got infected, but that's just a guess.

[maanantai]

The reason I'm up and typing at 5:00 am is that the little bugger sent the water bowl sailing about 45 minutes ago. We've got three cats and a dog, so we use a big bowl and he pretty much emptied it from 2/3's full. Of course it ran under the fridge and under the laminate floor along the wall where there is a bit of a gap. (note to self: run a bead of calking along the wall)

I think he heard how much the vet bill was so he knows I won't kill him so shortly after spending that kind of money.

We actually have moved THE water bowl to bathroom because of that But we also keep small bowl with tiny bit of water in kitchen so our "little girl" can still have her fun of wetting the floor and annoying our older cat

They just know it That they have cost some money. And other things as well. (vet, all the clothes they've shredded, vet, vet, fuzzy eating-stuff, vet, vet, broken dishes, vet, dislocated shoulder, vet, laptop, vet and vet visit because of frozen tongue!)

[Mantorok]

Mar 8, 2009 4:00:43 GMT -5 maanantai said:

I've always wondered what's up with those cat medications/drugs since they seem to have instant effect. And why don't they have such a powerful stuff for people too?

Ever been given morphine? I've had it for biliary colic and it kicked in before the nurse had pulled the needle out of my arm.

[canadian mojo]

The going to the vet for a frozen tongue sounds like an interesting story.

[schizophonic]

I feel bad for your cat. I love cats. At least it wasn't anything more serious. I'd hate to lose an inch of my tail, but it beats being mangled or the like.

[maanantai]

Mar 8, 2009 5:16:37 GMT -5 canadian mojo said:

The going to the vet for a frozen tongue sounds like an interesting story.

It's not interesting story, it's rather long and sad and made me feel totally stupid

We happened to notice one evening that our boy was drooling, avoiding us, bit down and didn't want to eat. We managed to get vet appointment for the next day and she then checks him and asks us if he's been eating something corrosive since tip of his tongue was missing and whole tongue actually looked pretty bad, kinda "ragged".

(I felt like a bad parent, even that we keep all of our cleaning -and other chamical stuff locked from cats...)

She then just says that in that case he is getting antibiotics because it was either burnt or frozen. Our cat didn't like opening his mouth too much so she couldn't be sure which it was. So it was quick shot of antibiotics and painkiller he got from her there and we also got those normal antibiotics to give him at home.

On car back to home we discuss all the possible hot/cold stuff that he might have got in his paws and eaten, still considering if he still has managed to do something even more stupid, like licking shoes and getting that from there and we almost have a fight blaiming eachother for the condition of cats tongue when I realize something, they had had fish.

I had taken their fish from freezer to melt and knowing that they would like to eat it straight away - frozen or not - I had put it in cold oven knowing that they don't get it from there.
BUT I had left it for five or so minutes unattended in the sink before putting it to the oven because I was trying to find suitable container, plate, whatever for it and I had the get one from bathroom x(

(yes, we have limited amount of cupboard room and I like to keep their dish from mixing with ours, even their cat tuna cans are in different place from our tuna cans, and yes I have separated "dish brush" for their dish... )

STUPID, GREEDY cat of ours had of course taken the chance and gone to the sink where he normally doesn't even go close (he's been washed there once or twice) and helped himself some fish.

Anyways, after few days of antibiotics he was already looking better and eating everything that he usually eats and his tongue was actually whole again, just a little different shade of pink from the edges and when he had finished his antibiotics you would have never guessed that there actually had been anything wrong with it.

They haven't actually had too much fish after that.

Long story short: Stupid owner, frozen fish unattended, very stupid cat, 80 € for vet including meds.

[canadian mojo]

I don't think you have anything to feel stupid about. Cats normally have enough sense not to grab things that are too hot or cold. I highly doubt one bit or lick would have been enough to that sort of damage, so he probably sat there going lick, ouch, lick, ouch, lick, ouch while you were out of the room. That's just dumb, even by cat standards.