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Tag Archives: vets

feeding time

05 Friday Mar 2010

Posted by azahar in animals & pets, cats

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Last week when Yolanda the vet told me I’d have to start force-feeding Azar I cringed, remembering the ordeal of having to wrap Sunny in a towel and struggle to get him to take his liquid meds. But with Azar it turned out to be a piece of cake! As you can see in the pics, Nog holds him without a towel or any kind of restraint, and although Azar squirms a little, he doesn’t clamp his mouth shut tight like Sunny did, and he is quite okay about getting everything down the hatch – believe me, this is a cat who immediately turns into the Tasmanian Devil when he doesn’t want to be held. And okay, there is a bit of “food spray” resulting in much washing of Nog’s sweaters, but since I’ve been perfecting my technique (including plenty of kisses on the head between squirts of food), I think Azar has actually come to enjoy eating this way…
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vet or no vet?

16 Monday Nov 2009

Posted by azahar in animals & pets, health & happiness

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cats, health, vets

at the vets

I just spoke to the vet again because Sunny doesn’t seem to be getting any better. He still only has a BM every three days or so, which is not good. His fur is looking all matted and it’s like he’s wasting away before my eyes. Hard to believe that back in July he was so chubby. Anyhow, the vet says that the only other thing they can do is arrange for an ultrasound to see the blockage more clearly, as well as do more blood tests. And I am stuck, not knowing what to do. First of all I don’t have the money (about 200 euros) that an ultrasound, blood tests and a vet consultation will cost. But even if I did, at what point does one keep testing a 16-year-old animal who may simply be “shutting down” due to old age? I mean, I’m pretty sure I wouldn’t agree to an operation at this stage. Though if it is feline megacolon, the information I’ve read says that sometimes surgery is needed to remove the blockage and the success rate is very high. It also says that ultrasounds are only done if cancer is suspected. So I don’t know. What should I do? What would you do? This is really breaking my heart.

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spoonfed

09 Monday Nov 2009

Posted by azahar in animals & pets, health & happiness, home

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cats, feline megacolon, vets

spoon

Update on Sunny.
I think I may have created a monster …

To recap. Sunny was diagnosed as having something called feline mega colon in September, and it’s been really hit & miss trying to find the right combination of treatment for him. He still sometimes goes for days without having a bowel movement, but just when I’m ready to go through more vet trauma and take him in, he manages to go, and then we go back to waiting and watching. I know he isn’t functioning as well as he might, but I am loathe to keep bringing him back to the vet’s. I mean, he’s 16 now and the vet said the next step would be to give him an ultrasound to see if there is some sort of obstruction. But it just seems like his digestion has become very sluggish rather than being totally blocked. Meanwhile, I really do think I have created a monster. A fussy and totally spoiled pointy-eared monster who now only wants to eat when I spoon feed him…

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