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or so it looked.
She was having a dental cleaning, and then had trouble waking up. Her pupils were dilated and didn't react, she was periodically grasping for air, heartbeat strong. Then she passed away in the clinic in our presence. The vet kept telling she didn't know what was wrong.
As I googled, heartbeat of a dying cat is weak. My cat was old and had hyperthyroidism, and wasn't eating well for a couple of days, lost weight. She was brought to the clinic because her gum was bleeding, and they recommended surgery (dental cleaning), dental checkup and extraction as some teeth were probably bad.
The weird part, as I looked her teeth still had a tartar buildup! Her mouth didn't look at all like she'd been through any dental procedure. The clinic performed some emergency procedures as authorized but didn't charge anything. As we came there, my husband and me, I wasn't able to get a clear answer for how long the cat had stayed like that. The vet was like "oh, I don't know what's wrong but she's very sick, do you want to take her home or send to her to a 24-hour emergency? btw, would you consider letting her euthanized?". And she kept calling the symptoms neurological.
Does anybody know what the symptoms were? And does something sound not right?
She was having a dental cleaning, and then had trouble waking up. Her pupils were dilated and didn't react, she was periodically grasping for air, heartbeat strong. Then she passed away in the clinic in our presence. The vet kept telling she didn't know what was wrong.
As I googled, heartbeat of a dying cat is weak. My cat was old and had hyperthyroidism, and wasn't eating well for a couple of days, lost weight. She was brought to the clinic because her gum was bleeding, and they recommended surgery (dental cleaning), dental checkup and extraction as some teeth were probably bad.
The weird part, as I looked her teeth still had a tartar buildup! Her mouth didn't look at all like she'd been through any dental procedure. The clinic performed some emergency procedures as authorized but didn't charge anything. As we came there, my husband and me, I wasn't able to get a clear answer for how long the cat had stayed like that. The vet was like "oh, I don't know what's wrong but she's very sick, do you want to take her home or send to her to a 24-hour emergency? btw, would you consider letting her euthanized?". And she kept calling the symptoms neurological.
Does anybody know what the symptoms were? And does something sound not right?