"Christina Websell" wrote in
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Dang me if this cat won't be the death of me! My nerves have been in
shreds lately what with her having to be hospitalised a few weeks ago,
recovering slowly from that, going missing and me doing all the
climbing over fences searching, getting found and going downhill
again with no appetite, return to TED for injections with warning of
days to live, pooing all over, return to TED, have a slight difference
of opinion, get poo meds that he is confident I won't be able to give,
spend all my spare time cooking things she *might* want to eat and
trying to get her to eat them and hide the meds somehow.
I feel worn out and exhausted.
HOWEVER!! I think it's all been worth it. She stopped having
diarrhoea about 36-48 hours after I managed to get a bit of her
crushed tab into her somehow twice a day. TED prescribed a quarter tab
but looked at me out of the corner of his eye and said "well, maybe a
bit less.." I doubt he has seen such a small adult cat.
I've stopped giving her the tablets today because we have seen no poo
at all since it all settled down. I don't want the opposite problem.
She is eating as well as she did before. She's had two meals of
catfood today (although she did leave a bit of it and begged later for
chicken, which she got.) She feels so much heavier already when I
pick her up and less frail.

I read each and every post everyone sent and appreciated every one.
Some suggestions I could not do, we do not seem to get baby food here
that is all meat, for example. I got her some baby food last time,
the best I could do was "vegetables and turkey" which she raised her
eyebrows at and said "you are joking, aren't you?"

KFC is sitting on the arm of the chair next to me as I am typing this
and keeps headbutting my hand and rubbing her cheeks on the keyboard.
She almost never bothers me when I am on the computer.
Maybe she is trying to say" thank you to you all for my purrs and
prayers."
She is purring up a storm herself. This is not a dying cat any more.
Now all I need to see is a nice firm poo in the litterbox and I will
say she's fooled us all again, (including TED) ;-)
Fortunately I will not need to be admitted to a psychiatric ward as I
already have a counsellor provided by my employer when a manager
nearly bullied me into oblivion. It was his bad luck he came on
Wednesday and got a whole month's worth of Kitty Farmcat;-) He is a
very nice man and has a cat himself.

Tweed





This all sounds great!

A few random thoughts:

1. I know you love your vet so I don't need to defend him but I imagine
he is as worried for you as he is for KFC by some of his responses to
you. Sounds like a great vet to me.

2. Maybe you should continue giving kfc just a bit of the pills if you
can.

3. Have you tried a "gravy" style of cat food with some added water? Zak
always ate/drank that. Since I had opted to not do sub-q for Zak this
kept him hydrated pretty well. I figured as good or bad as the food was
the fluid was most important at the time.

Anyway keep up the good work and try to relax a bit between the "slave
tasks"

Andy