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Greeting Cat-Tech: You continually try to be insulting by suggesting that my only concern is the money. Then you try to mask this vet's incompentence with technical gibberish. The cat could have been sedated through some other method enough to examine his throat. The Merck Manual specifically...

Greetings Hissy; The problem here is that because you and Cat-Tech gave advice then by definition that advice is sound. Why is it sound? Why, because you said it. And this is what you have doing for twelve years. But is it really the best thing you could have done with all that time and...

Good bye Hissy. You are right about one thing. If this cat lives or dies is my responsibility. If I take this cat to a vet and he dies, like yours did, it is my responsibility also. I must make a judgment call here on what is best for the cat and that call is just what I am doing. As for my...

Good morning Cat-Tech and Chelle: Sorry to hear that you are running out Cat-Tech. Chelle; You and Hissy are exactly correct. What should have been done was the anesthesia and scoping at the very first visit to the vet. My very strong impression as to why this wasn't done is that the vet...

Let me understand what you are saying. I should go back to the vet and tell him what to do, what to x-ray and what tests to make. I should instruct him on how to hold the stethiscope and which ends go into his ears. And even though he did not perform a competent exam I am to presume that his...

Thank you Hissy. He is an inside cat only. He doesn't look sick, his eyes are bright. There are no hot spots or swelling of any kind. There is no evidence of pain. His diet is way off but did a little boiled chicken today and drank some tuna-juice. He is still breathing from the abdomen, it is...

Fsttrk You did not mention which veterinary clinic you work for.

Actually Traci the differences between men and women is very much in evidence here. For instance, your post critises me for the lapses of these veternarians. At the end of your post you mention the crux of the situation. These doctors did not take an x-ray of the throat or esophogus area nor of...

I understand that women see things differently from men so let me assure you that my first concern is for the cat. Each time this cat goes to vet's office he will be exposed to unknown pathogins and he will suffer anxiety. This is wearing on the cat and a compromise to his immune system. And as...

Well if nothing else I can see my communications skills are not up to snuff. First I imagine that you imagine "the garage" to be a dark, cold, grease covered, dirt-floored pit littered with rusty engines and such. Actually is is heated, lighted and clean as a whistle. Much of the time the cats...

Thanks Hissy: You are in the right of it. This cat has been stressed enough already. So much so that it has affected the other two animals. Further, it has always been my policy to segregate the cat who has been to the vet last for three days. So Blackjack is now alone in the garage, thinking...

You sound competent. Would plastic or material like plastic show up on these x-rays? The reason I ask is that this cat has swallowed large chunks of clear plastic wrap before ( ten inches square as a matter of fact) and it passed out through his anus. No kidding. I take your point though about...

Thanks for your imput. Actually, I was thinking of giving him ipacac to make him vomit. My thinking here is that if it is in the esophagus and if it is a string it might turn around and I can pull it out. If it is in the airway it would have no effect of course. What is stopping me is that the...

I don't want to sound venal here but everytime I see another veterinarian it costs another $150 to $300 dollars. I simply can't keep this up. I have other cats too. I am going to have to do this on my own or else allow the animal to die. These veterinarians here do not care about the animals...

I have tried what you suggested. The vets started talking about Asthma even before the examination. Every time I brought up the cat's history of swallowing things it was brushed aside and they returned the conversation to Asthma. Common sense dictates, of course, that they should have examined...

I have a two y.o. male cat that I think might have a foreign object caught in either his airway or voicebox. Probably string, cord or furniture foam. I have taken him to two local vets ($300 plus) but they are not marketing airway clearance right now, only asthma, (larger profit margin). I need...