I feel rather guilty now. After that flippant, breezy post on Monday, turns out our elderly cat is not well. Really very not well. She didn't eat on Monday or Tuesday so we took her to the vet on Wednesday. He couldn't really say what was wrong, other than that something clearly was pretty wrong. She has lost weight and condition and her fur is falling out at a rather alarming rate. He took blood tests and gave us appetite stimulant tablets to give her (I hate giving pills to cats - that forced ramming down the throat just feels wrong, even when it is being done for the best of reasons.)
The blood tests didn't show much, other than a raised white blood cell count suggestive of major inflammation of some sort, somewhere. She has been prescribed anti-inflammatory drugs (more pill-ramming) but really, she is not looking good. Sufficiently not good that Husband and I are agreed we had better make sure we are first down and into the kitchen tomorrow morning, before the boys. Just in case. And if she doesn't perk up a bit overnight, courtesy of the aforementioned pills, then.........well, we'll see.
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I'm really sorry to hear that. I hope she gets better. xxx
ReplyDeleteit's hard to know what to do when an older pet gets sick with something hard to diagnose. I think you are wise to be checking on her early; although when we lost a pet, our girls took it fairly well and the lesson was useful when their great grandmother died a few months later.
ReplyDeleteI guess, in retrospect, the clumps of hair should have been a warning sign.
It was beautifully funny, though.
I'm so sorry. I know how it is.
ReplyDeleteRE: The pill ramming. We have a supplement here called Nutrical that is full of delicious nutrients that animals love. If you mash the pills and put it in the gel she will lick it right up.
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Aw, poor kitty. I hope one way or another it isn't a long, drawn-out illness.
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