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Okay, in the last two months, I have had a sugar glider that played with his stuff too much and had to wear and Elizabethan collar.
Then I have the cat that ends up with ulcers in this mouth and throat. To be exact Gingival, Stomatitis Pharyngitis Complex, that required teeth extraction, antibiotics, and a special hypoallergenic pet food.
Now, last night, I got home and have a dog that looks like he was either poisoned or had a stroke. Young healthy 3 year old Min Pin. He has face and eye twitch, confusion, vision problems, no coordination. So, I call the vet, end up going in and $200 worth of bloodwork and anti siezure meds, then the vet decides it may be….Canine Idiopathic Vestibular Disease.
Thank God I am in an ENT practice for humans. SO I understand that there is basically no real treatment. The poor dog basically has vertigo like people get and it usually goes away on its own, over a few weeks.
Can you imagine this poor little guy, he is just really very dizzy. I feel so sorry for him, but I am glad he didn’t have something more serious. I gave him some benadryl and that has helped a bunch.
I guess I have so many pets, I am gonna be more likely to have weird illnesses, but I wish it would stop for a bit 🙂 My vet will have a nice vacation on me after the last two months 🙂
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I actually told the wife of my vet, when she was ready to go back to New York, for vacation, to let me know. Hehehe, I have 4 dogs who need shots and teeth cleaning and one that needs to be spayed.
She started laughing and said she would talk to her husband about letting me do all the animals on the same day 🙂
Czar seems much better after some Rimadyl and Benadryl. He is sleeping next to me and is relaxed, finally.
Poor doggy. Could always be worse…for instance…
Today I came home and my husband tells me he thinks something is wrong with one of our barn cats.
Yep, the lid he had on the antifreeze left over from cleaning his radiator had come off and she was looking for water and must have drank it. She has all the classic symptoms for antifreeze poisoning.
At this point there is little I can do, so I have her in my back bathroom with water and a blanket and am going to have to just make her as comfortable as I can. I can’t afford to take her to the vet, and they aren’t open on the weekends, and the chances of saving her are slim to none, all he could do is put her down. If she is still with us on Monday, I will take her to the vet so she doesn’t have to suffer more than she needs to.
I feel really bad, and hubby is really sorry, he thought the lid was secure. I wish I had some euthasol so I could put her down myself, but the darn drug is very controlled, with good reason, but still it would help to be able to do something to help her now, without breaking the bank.
Poor kitty, she is so sick all I can do is hold her and love on her and wish it was over.
Kyrin
I am so sorry Kyrin. I lost my favorite cat this way. She got locked in the garage while I was at work. There was nothing I could do when I found her, I still miss her very much. 🙁
Perhaps you should get a credit card and keep it tucked away for just such an emergency. That’s an absolutely awful situation and I feel very sorry for your cat. 😡
I’ve researched it on the net, there is no known effective treatment for cats. They have things that will save dogs, but the drugs for that aren’t considered safe to use on cats, so all they could do is give her lots of fluids, charcoal and hope her kidneys aren’t ruined, one site even talked about dialysis to keep her going while the kidneys healed, but realistically this cat isn’t worth the several thousand dollars that would entail.
Since I have no idea how long it has been since she drank it, it is likely already too late to do anything to save her, even if they had a for sure way to do it. All I can do is keep her comfortable and take her to the vet on Monday to be put to sleep.
Basically from what I can tell it would take an immense amount of money, a miracle and serious heroics from the vet to save her at this point. Antifreeze poisoning in cats is apparently almost always lethal, they are just too sensitive to it and there isn’t a very effective treatment available.
I just pray that none of the other outside cats have also gotten into it too.
As for credit cards, no…credit cards are evil incarnate and I will not have one if I can help it. It is way to easy to make things an “emergency”, like buying more Windstones, so no, the last thing I need is a credit card.
Kyrin
I hear ya about there being no effective treatment. I wouldn’t put the cat through all that either, if there wasn’t much of a chance anyway. It would still be better to have her put down sooner rather than later. Around here we have at least one vet available for emergency cases. It’s a shame you don’t have a vet available. I hate to see animals suffer, is all.
lamortefille wrote:I hear ya about there being no effective treatment. I wouldn’t put the cat through all that either, if there wasn’t much of a chance anyway. It would still be better to have her put down sooner rather than later. Around here we have at least one vet available for emergency cases. It’s a shame you don’t have a vet available. I hate to see animals suffer, is all.
Other than appearing dizzy and being thirsty, she doesn’t seem to be suffering, and according to how the symptoms run, the next stage will be that she will seem to be recovering, so with luck she will start the recovery phase soon, and before kidney failure stage I can get her to the vet.
Kyrin
Kyrin wrote:As for credit cards, no…credit cards are evil incarnate and I will not have one if I can help it. It is way to easy to make things an “emergency”, like buying more Windstones, so no, the last thing I need is a credit card.
Boy isn’t that the truth. A friend of mine has an interesting way to deal with not using her credit card. She put the actual card in some water and then put the water in her freezer. That way the card is still there for emergencies, but in order to use it she has to defrost it making her less likely to use it for a “frivolous” emergency instead of a real one.
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