Hello everyone. This is my first post and I have a nagging question the vet wasn't even sure on. Maybe someone has ran across this.
Both Tuxie and her brother Patches were 8 years old and Tuxie went paralyzed in the rear legs and tail almost over night. She had trouble getting up in the chair next to me for a few days prior but seemed to walk fine.
Broke my heart taking her to the vet because she had been my "mom's cat" until mom died but mom had lived with my wife and me so Tuxie and Patches were with us from only a few days old. Tuxie lived 3years after my mom passed and was my only living link to my mom. I was in misery when the vet said she was also not functioning in the urinary parts and I remember her taking in less water. There was no hope to keep her except in short term misery and we had her euthanized and her ashes, as patches are here in beautiful cedar chests.
Patches just a few months later had his head literally drag his head like and old swayback horse just above the floor, we thought he might have fell out of bed or slept bad on it or something, he was able to still jump up on the couch and seemed all better the next day. But 3 days later he started leaning on the hallway wall as he walked, then the next day he was dragging himself, in no pain and as if he had done it forever.
We got him to the same well respected vet and in that short time Patches was worse than Tuxie had been and again we loss a beloved friend.
Both were feral. Neither sickly ever and had regular shots and checkups. Both were monsters: Tuxie 24lbs and Patches a whopping 27 lbs mind you at around age four, but neither fat, just huge.
Are there diseases that remain dormant in some feral cats or a mutant gene that can go off like a time bomb later in life??? This was crusing to us, we have two other cats, one I saved that weighed only 7 ounces and cost almost two thousand dollars to save. She was so parasitic that the vet doubted she'd live but 12 years later is healthy albeit she is tiny but smart as can be. She understands most of what you say to here
I'll attach what photos I can of Patches. I don't have a photo of Tuxie in my Ipod here, but can anyone tell me what happened. I have always said losing a pet can tear your heart out and it surely did with these two. I'm just glad we had the years we had.
Just looked and only photos in my Ipod are of Fluffy the last cat mentioned. As a followup i'll get on the desktop and add pics of the siblings, i'm sitting in a dinner awaiting lunch now.
that is Fluffy and here is Gray who I'll tell an amazing story about next post
Thank you
Beemaster
Manchester, NJ
Thanks ahead.
Both Tuxie and her brother Patches were 8 years old and Tuxie went paralyzed in the rear legs and tail almost over night. She had trouble getting up in the chair next to me for a few days prior but seemed to walk fine.
Broke my heart taking her to the vet because she had been my "mom's cat" until mom died but mom had lived with my wife and me so Tuxie and Patches were with us from only a few days old. Tuxie lived 3years after my mom passed and was my only living link to my mom. I was in misery when the vet said she was also not functioning in the urinary parts and I remember her taking in less water. There was no hope to keep her except in short term misery and we had her euthanized and her ashes, as patches are here in beautiful cedar chests.
Patches just a few months later had his head literally drag his head like and old swayback horse just above the floor, we thought he might have fell out of bed or slept bad on it or something, he was able to still jump up on the couch and seemed all better the next day. But 3 days later he started leaning on the hallway wall as he walked, then the next day he was dragging himself, in no pain and as if he had done it forever.
We got him to the same well respected vet and in that short time Patches was worse than Tuxie had been and again we loss a beloved friend.
Both were feral. Neither sickly ever and had regular shots and checkups. Both were monsters: Tuxie 24lbs and Patches a whopping 27 lbs mind you at around age four, but neither fat, just huge.
Are there diseases that remain dormant in some feral cats or a mutant gene that can go off like a time bomb later in life??? This was crusing to us, we have two other cats, one I saved that weighed only 7 ounces and cost almost two thousand dollars to save. She was so parasitic that the vet doubted she'd live but 12 years later is healthy albeit she is tiny but smart as can be. She understands most of what you say to here
I'll attach what photos I can of Patches. I don't have a photo of Tuxie in my Ipod here, but can anyone tell me what happened. I have always said losing a pet can tear your heart out and it surely did with these two. I'm just glad we had the years we had.
Just looked and only photos in my Ipod are of Fluffy the last cat mentioned. As a followup i'll get on the desktop and add pics of the siblings, i'm sitting in a dinner awaiting lunch now.
Thank you
Beemaster
Manchester, NJ
Thanks ahead.
