Recent Content by kat'scat

my decision was against surgery becasue (in no particular order) 1. his age 2. the bodies were not conclusively the problem (they might not have even been in his gi tract 3. the money. 800 bucks. 4. at this point, the likelyhood that he'd go into fatty liver anyways. it was not a decision i took...

no change here. it's about time to give him his meds again though. he hasn't eaten anything and is still throwing up a couple times a day. i'm calling the vet tomorrow and am planning on getting an xray done to see if anything has moved. if not, he's going to be PTS. if so.....and he's not...

yes. i just got home and it is carafate.... assist feeding? do you mean force feeding him aka "assisting" him in eating? i did talk to the vet about that and she said that ultimately it wouldn't help. that he would need to get more nutrients than his blockage would allow. basically...SOME...

ok. so. i'm a little behind...but i did take him to another vet. i did not like the way i was treated at the plast place and if you can't explain to me what you're doing and why....you're done.... ok. so i went to one that was recomended a couple times over and spent nearly 3 hours there. i...

hi coco! (or not so coco) i guess i'd be much more agreeable to think that it was a blockage of some sort if he had a history of eating things or if the bloodwork didn't show that he had elevated liver enzymes. i was leaning more towards liver problems. but i just don't know. i know a heck of a...

oh. i forgot to mention that....he threw up 2 hairballs at the beginings...no history of eating things (just tearing up paper). if he has a hairball or something, wouldn't he have thrown it up by now?

hi everybody. i'm totally new here but i don't know where else to turn. i have a cat (obviously) and he's been quite ill for the last week. He is about 11 years old (hard to say exactly as he is a rescue kitty). last week friday he started throwing up. it was mostly white foam (from an empty...