1 year old kitten with kidney failure

 have a one year old kitten that suddenly got extremely sick two days ago. Came home yesterday and he was spasming all over. Took him to the vet immediately and now he's there on fluids. They found out his kidney levels are very high, like you would see in an older cat when their kidneys are failing. Fluids can help and may help him bounce back but we still don't really know the cause and they want to do a bunch of tests. The cost for everything and staying at the vet through to monday will be around $1200. My dad says he won't pay that just to possibly have him pass away a few weeks or months after bringing him home. 

Since tomorrow is Friday and we can't afford him to stay until monday dad says he needs to improve drastically in 24 hours or I'll have to decide to put him down. 

He's just a kitten, with a possibility of getting better. I can't see ending his life just because we can't afford it. Does anyone know of any shelters or organizations that help or take the cat and take care of it in situations like this? I live in Central Illinois if that helps.

I've read all about ARF and CRF. He was also throwing up something very green, so I hope it's just ARF from eating something toxic(I have no idea what he would have gotten into though, he's and indoor cat) and that staying on fluids will make him better. The problem is, we can't afford to keep him there until monday, unless maybe I convince them not to try all the tests and to just treat it like ARF with fluids?

I am sorry your kitten is so sick. Are there any plants or flowers that he could have eaten? Many of them are toxic to cats.

You can surrender your cat to a shelter, but at that point, you have no control over what will happen. It will be the shelter's decision whether to treat or not treat. You can definitely ask the vet to treat the symptoms without further tests. Fluids are something you can administer at home as well. Ask them about it. Many vibes for you and your kitty.

To HIGHLIGHT what vball91 told you:

You can give him fluids AT HOME.......not into a vein, but under his skin using a bag of fluids, tubing and a needle.

The Vet/tech can show you how....many people do it all the time.

Giving fluids is the ONLY way to eliminate whatever toxin he has ingested....SEVERAL DAYS of infused fluids are needed.

IF you continue with fluids at home, there's a very good chance he could recover because......at age 1, normal kidneys have lots of unused kidney tissue in reserve which can be brought into action when those cells on the 'front line' are injured/destroyed.

But....the toxin must be 'flushed out' first........that generally takes 4-6 days of 'flushing'.

Don't give up on your little one!

You also MUST discover what toxic substance he got into. If he threw up "something very green", I would suspect a plant.

• do you have houseplants? exactly what kinds, species, names?
• did anyone spill anything green two/three days ago?
• do you use any green liquids in the house......cleaners, ingredients.any kind?
• are there any automobile products in the house?......anti-freeze?.....lubricants?
• was anything left in a sink to soak?

You really need to get every household member to put their heads together on this one. If it happened once, it can happen again......especially if the suspect item is somehow appealing to the cat (e.g. anti-freeze is 'tasty' to cats)

I hope something there helps.

Just, don't give up!

Sorry I haven't updated! As you imagine it all happens so fast and things can be kind of crazy! As of yesterday she was beginning to think it was an obstruction because when she pushed on his tummy he flinched and threw up. I gave her the okay for the surgery and she went in to see if anything was in his intestines that we couldn't see in the xray. There was! She isn't sure what it is but I get to see it tomorrow and I'm pretty positive that it's a toy he ate a few months ago and at the time we had thought it all came out. It was stuck at the very beginning of his intestines. She isn't sure that just that could make his kidney levels so high, but we're thinking maybe he naturally has high levels and being dehydrated from the obstruction just made them go haywire.

The surgery was yesterday and this morning he was acting more himself and actually sticking his paw through the bars of the cage to playfully swipe at the doctors as they walked by! He has a slight fever so they're watching to make sure he doesn't get an infection. He gets to try food tonight too. If he eats, his fever goes down, and his kidney levels are normal enough he will get to come home tomorrow!

I have a very high vet bill that I have to pay for on my own, and I am a college student going into student teaching. Student teaching is a full time, unpaid internship. I am going to try to work weekends to afford the monthly payments but I also started a fundraiser on give forward. Am I allowed to post it here?

If your'e in school do you not get financial aid? If so, you should get a refund check that should help out (usually for Full time students, who qualify they give a hefty refund check because they understand that you need to survive and working full time can be a struggle, so it actually helps).