Hello everyone:
Sorry for the long mesage, I need to vent ... or I'll die...
On Friday I went to a new vet that opened in town with my friend. Sunny, her kitten , doesn't want to eat and keeps vomiting , he has been vomiting for days. Well, we decided to go to the new vet to see if she was good/. AS we entered the office, it was beautiful! and so clean and nicely decorated. Well, when it was Sunny's turn, we entered and the vet checked Sunny's temperature and heard his heart, checked for fecal parasites and that was it. She doesn't do x-rays, she doesn't do any blood work, she doesn't do the FVI/FeLv test, etc... She said Sunny was dehydrated, and wanted to keep him overnight and put him on an IV.
So, the next day we went to pick him up and found out the had given Sunny the IV orally in the afternoon and morning, they were giving it to him when we got there. He spent the night all alone in the vet's office, no one stays the night with the animals that are there. he didn't receive any attention during the night. It was just awful! When we got there he had vomited all over himself.
This is what happens in most vets here. This is why I suffer so much when my kitties get sick. WE took Sunny to another vet who said it was probably a hairball and prescribed a laxative. He will be doing x-rays if Sunny doesn't get better in a few days.
RIght now my cat Fuzzy has a serious eye problem. he was a hole in his cornea, he is indoors, so it wasn't fighting with other cats. I don't know how it happened, it is so weird, it looks like a black spot on his eye. The vet had no idea what to do and kept reading a book to find an answer. And the answer is surgery, he needs surgery and there's no surgery for him here. Waht is going to happen with his eye? Who knows, he is on Clavamox and gentamicin eyedrops and I have to take him back to the vet on Wednesday to see how he is doing. I"m just terrified of him loosing his eye, because he is cross-eyed and I know with one eye he won't be fine. he 'won't be able to see well.
Tammy
Sorry for the long mesage, I need to vent ... or I'll die...
On Friday I went to a new vet that opened in town with my friend. Sunny, her kitten , doesn't want to eat and keeps vomiting , he has been vomiting for days. Well, we decided to go to the new vet to see if she was good/. AS we entered the office, it was beautiful! and so clean and nicely decorated. Well, when it was Sunny's turn, we entered and the vet checked Sunny's temperature and heard his heart, checked for fecal parasites and that was it. She doesn't do x-rays, she doesn't do any blood work, she doesn't do the FVI/FeLv test, etc... She said Sunny was dehydrated, and wanted to keep him overnight and put him on an IV.
So, the next day we went to pick him up and found out the had given Sunny the IV orally in the afternoon and morning, they were giving it to him when we got there. He spent the night all alone in the vet's office, no one stays the night with the animals that are there. he didn't receive any attention during the night. It was just awful! When we got there he had vomited all over himself.
This is what happens in most vets here. This is why I suffer so much when my kitties get sick. WE took Sunny to another vet who said it was probably a hairball and prescribed a laxative. He will be doing x-rays if Sunny doesn't get better in a few days.
RIght now my cat Fuzzy has a serious eye problem. he was a hole in his cornea, he is indoors, so it wasn't fighting with other cats. I don't know how it happened, it is so weird, it looks like a black spot on his eye. The vet had no idea what to do and kept reading a book to find an answer. And the answer is surgery, he needs surgery and there's no surgery for him here. Waht is going to happen with his eye? Who knows, he is on Clavamox and gentamicin eyedrops and I have to take him back to the vet on Wednesday to see how he is doing. I"m just terrified of him loosing his eye, because he is cross-eyed and I know with one eye he won't be fine. he 'won't be able to see well.
Tammy
