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On Friday around 11PM our cat Mishka was brought to a emergency vet (not by us but by someone that had found her) and suspected that she had been hit by a car.
We were notified and made it to vet at 1am to check on her. She'd been x-rayed and they'd attempted to take blood at the time but couldn't.
For context she's about 4 years old and was adopted from a shelter when she was 1. She's a domestic longhair and likes to spend a good portion of the day outside,
she doesn't go near strangers and disappears completely when we have visitors. She's very responsive to attention from those she trusts.
Even after attempted toilet training she doesn't know how to use a litter tray or clean herself properly which is why she's more of an outside cat now.
I have to include she's also a bit 'odd' she's very slow when she walks, but not fatigued. she sleeps as much as a regular cat and when it comes
to catching bugs and the odd bird she's as agile as any cat.
Her x-rays were completely clear and they had her in a little glass cage with an oxygen tank because they were worried about her blood oxygen levels.
The doctor had also given her Ilium Methadone (0.12 of 20ML) but we're not entirely sure why as she wasn't administered any anesthetics.
The doctor still couldn't tell us what had happened to her even when we picked her up at 8am the next day but it had been 40℃/104℉ so she could have gotten sick in the heat?
The fact that strangers were able to pick her up off the side of the road and put her into a car (her worst nightmare) suggests she was very unwell.
on the way home in the car with us she was howling as usual but was still nuzzling against my fingers through the cat carrier.
We got her home 9am Saturday and it is now 3pm Sunday and she hasn't eaten or drunk or barely moved.
She won't respond to being petted and as soon as we touch her she gets up and moves to another spot.
She's still unable to walk properly even though it was such a small dose of Methadone and she spent the night under a bush outside because she howled at the door til we let her out.
When I brought her in this afternoon around 2PM I put her in front of the food bowl and water bowl and she just walked away without even smelling and collapsed on the rug under the table.
I'm really worried but all vets are closed on Sunday and we can't afford another $2000AUD emergency vet visit.
She was on fluids and electrolytes while at the vet, could that be why she is uninterested in food/water still?
Today is 30℃/86℉ so I thought she'd be thirsty by now.
Just now we've cooked up some chicken (her absolute favorite) and have offered her it raw even now but she just turns her head away.
On Friday around 11PM our cat Mishka was brought to a emergency vet (not by us but by someone that had found her) and suspected that she had been hit by a car.
We were notified and made it to vet at 1am to check on her. She'd been x-rayed and they'd attempted to take blood at the time but couldn't.
For context she's about 4 years old and was adopted from a shelter when she was 1. She's a domestic longhair and likes to spend a good portion of the day outside,
she doesn't go near strangers and disappears completely when we have visitors. She's very responsive to attention from those she trusts.
Even after attempted toilet training she doesn't know how to use a litter tray or clean herself properly which is why she's more of an outside cat now.
I have to include she's also a bit 'odd' she's very slow when she walks, but not fatigued. she sleeps as much as a regular cat and when it comes
to catching bugs and the odd bird she's as agile as any cat.
Her x-rays were completely clear and they had her in a little glass cage with an oxygen tank because they were worried about her blood oxygen levels.
The doctor had also given her Ilium Methadone (0.12 of 20ML) but we're not entirely sure why as she wasn't administered any anesthetics.
The doctor still couldn't tell us what had happened to her even when we picked her up at 8am the next day but it had been 40℃/104℉ so she could have gotten sick in the heat?
The fact that strangers were able to pick her up off the side of the road and put her into a car (her worst nightmare) suggests she was very unwell.
on the way home in the car with us she was howling as usual but was still nuzzling against my fingers through the cat carrier.
We got her home 9am Saturday and it is now 3pm Sunday and she hasn't eaten or drunk or barely moved.
She won't respond to being petted and as soon as we touch her she gets up and moves to another spot.
She's still unable to walk properly even though it was such a small dose of Methadone and she spent the night under a bush outside because she howled at the door til we let her out.
When I brought her in this afternoon around 2PM I put her in front of the food bowl and water bowl and she just walked away without even smelling and collapsed on the rug under the table.
I'm really worried but all vets are closed on Sunday and we can't afford another $2000AUD emergency vet visit.
She was on fluids and electrolytes while at the vet, could that be why she is uninterested in food/water still?
Today is 30℃/86℉ so I thought she'd be thirsty by now.
Just now we've cooked up some chicken (her absolute favorite) and have offered her it raw even now but she just turns her head away.