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Elise, I'm so happy for you and Theodore!!!It's been almost 2 weeks! Almost 2 weeks and I still have Theodore back to his old crazy loopy happy ways! He is still giving us many laughs. I'm so glad we persisted through 2 and a half months and and patient vet and an even more patient kitty. I think we've finally reached the light at the end of the tunnel
I'm so glad you (and Theodore) pushed through these past months with fortitude and gave it your all. It really paid off.
It's been almost 2 weeks! Almost 2 weeks and I still have Theodore back to his old crazy loopy happy ways! He is still giving us many laughs. I'm so glad we persisted through 2 and a half months and and patient vet and an even more patient kitty. I think we've finally reached the light at the end of the tunnel
Elise I'm heartbroken!! Theodore was doing so well. I don't have any answers except to take his food into a room and sit with him, while he eats. I had a kitty I had to feed separately. I would allow him to eat what was left in the other bowls but I made sure he ate his first. He wasn't on prescriptions but I had to mix medicine in his food.Theodore gave us a scare yesterday He projectile vomited water and bits of food 4 times in 12 hours. He became rather unwell and not wanting to eat or play. My husband felt for his bladder and sure enough, it was palpable. He took him to the vet this morning and they found a crystal plug in the urethra. The vet and my hubby threaded a catheter into theodore without sedation( poor cat must be used to all of this fuss by now) and drained his bladder again. The urethra is still nice and wide and there was no resistance to getting the catheter in this time. The vet said that it was partly our fault because we have stopped feeding him a prescription diet we were told we could stop. As a result of still having crystals, he is now crystal prone and must stay on the Hills Science diet for life. He hasn't wanted to eat anything since coming home again.
The other small issue is separating the two cats for feeding as feeding both the Hills diet would become rather expensive!
Ya they really jack up the price on "prescriptions". There's really no reason for it to be prescription except as an excuse to put money in a vets pocket but in the long run what is best for Theodore is this food with this specific ingredient. In the long run IT WILL keep him crystal free and save him from frequent vet trips!!Thanks Jodie, it sucks! But like the vet said obviously we had become complacent in the feeding issue and clearly he does need the special diet, even if it was $49 for a 4lb bag of dry. It will last awhile. We can get 24 cans of hills c/d wet for $64 but he was never a big eater of wet food anyhow! All will be ok. Right now he is curled up on a heating pad with his favourite blanket, high up on top of a bookshelf!
I found I can buy the s/d and c/d food online and so i think when he has finished the s/d bag we bought from the vet, we'll buy the c/d bag online because it's considerably cheaper. It's not like the vet isn't getting money out of us lol. I worry that Theodore will get bored of the taste of it after awhile and won't want to eat it!
Elise I'm so sorry I haven't been on for a while..I'm battling walking pneumonia. Enough about me.Still no improvement over the day. He can still pee, but won't unless we put him on the letterbox. He has lost all interest in eating and drinking so hubby was giving him water with a syringe and dropping dry food in his mouth. Im tempted to take him back to the vet tomorrow.
Does anyone know if it's theoretically possible for him to have low blood sugar from not eating and it's causing lethargy?
Thanks Jodie, I will reply to this post in the other one to save any confusion! Lets just say I might have had a lightbulb go off in my head