Need Prayers for Muffin

Oh that is worrisome! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Prayers that Muffin will be OK.

Oh, many prayers - how scary - and now I'm going out this evening after work to buy steel bowls for my babies. I'd never thought of that happening, but I can see how it easily could.

O my goodness. Of course I am sending up prayers and vibes for Muffin. Have you looked around his mouth? I would think there would be a bit of blood from a shard if he indeed did swallow some.

It sounds like you did all the right things. Please keep us posted.

Lots of vibes coming for Muffin!!

I hope Muffin will be okay!

That's scary. Lots of that Muffin is fine!

So glad he seems OK. it'll stay that way!

Stainless steel bowls sound like a good idea!

Sending lots of good vibes along for Muffin. Zimmie has a glass water dish, so now am thinking I should replace it.

One time back in the day two of my cats were given access to wander my parents' house. They had a library room where rats had invaded and made use of the clutter. Well I didn't realize that someone had put out a plate of rat poison pellets.

So when both of my cats disappeared from the main area of the house I went searching .. and found them both in the library room standing right over the plate of poison. It absolutely freaked me out. Cats tend to lick their mouth at times anyways but it is not a good time to be licking their mouths when they are in the presence of poison. It leads one to think the worst. \t

I could not tell if they had eaten any poison or not but they sure did gravitate to the smell. Once I got them back to their "cat room" I checked their mouths, found no trace evidence of anything green [the pellets were green] so I had to do a taste test. I held a pellet near them to see if they wanted it, such as a treat, having NO intentions of actually giving it to them mind you. And both of them wanted it.

So that did not ease my worried mind at all. I was hoping to see no interest coming from them so the chance of them having feasted prior to my arrival would at least in my mind be more minimal.

Being unable to afford vet care at the time [I was just a teen and had two parents that did not "believe" in "blowing money" on pet medical crises .. or pet-anything aside from food] I went to a pharmacist to find out what could counteract the potential poison. I do not remember now what specific vitamin was recommended, nor would I ever recommend anyone treat their cat at home for such a scenario, I did some quick research at the time on what the pharmacist recommended (that deadly library room did have a bunch of medical books in it .. go figure). The counteractive vitamin dose very well could have killed my cats had I given it to them unnecessarily [had there been no actual rat poison in their system].

Sooo long story short, I opted to keep a close eye on my kitties and remained ever so vigilant over the course of the next few days. They never got sick. But boy did I dodge two deadly bullets and a heart attack.

The moral of this story is:

1. Try to know your surroundings and possible accidents-in-waiting as best as possible where cats reside (because if trouble lurks, a cat will almost always find a way to get into it).

2. If in doubt always take kitties to a vet when a potential deadly scenario has occurred. Peace of mind is priceless.

3. Try not to land yourself in jail when someone tells you it's "just a cat".

4. Anyone reading this post please please please make sure all poisonous products are completely out of reach and inaccessible to your cats. All it takes is one simple mistake to become a lifetime of regret.

As for the ceramic bowls .. accidents happen. Sometimes I think our cats do these things on purpose just to keep us on our toes And your story will make me think twice before I buy a cute ceramic bowl at the pet store. Knowing my cats they will make sure to turn it into a hazardous object.

It's Vitamin K. However most cats will not survive ingesting rat poison, and certainly not without blood transfusions and other emergency medical treatment.

Rat poison works by not letting the blood clot. They bleed to death, from the inside. It's terrible stuff. For cats and dogs and rats and mice.

You were on the ball and found them in time.

So glad to hear Muffin is doing okay. The things they do to age us, my goodness.

You know those studies that say that having pets prolong your life, and relax you? ......Sometimes I wonder.

This incident happened in the mid 1990s. One of the cats involved, Sammy, is still with me now at the age of 18 years old. To think back on that close call and imagine her not being by my side all these years .. it makes me very grateful that I am so protective of my cats. Life lessons teach us along the way. This was definitely one of them.

Vitamin K! Thanks for the info. I do not allow rat poison to even be in my home these days. Dangerous stuff with, as you stated, a more than likely fatal outcome.

I don't even have the heart to put a rat through such a violent demise \t

Thanks for the happy update!