Hey everybody. I just wanted to share our big scare with Orion.
We had a vet appt Monday cuz the little guy (he's approx 7 mos...rescued feral) got stepped on and was lookin pretty sad.
As we came in from warming up the car for him, he came runnin up to uswith his little white face all yellow. We went and checked things out to see what he got into.
Lo and behold, the defied the countless sprayings of bitter apple, and ate all the pollen out of a Stargazer Lily in a V-day flower arrangement.
Here's the part that makes me feel like the worst kitty mommy ever. I had no idea that lilies were so very toxic to cats. =( I even stopped to take a couple of pics of him, cuz he looked so silly with all that pollen on his face. We are so lucky that we were headed right to the vet anyway, because if I wouldn't have taken the morning off and he had done that when no one was around, it very well may have been to late to do anything, since by the time the symptoms appear, they are in renal failure, and there's not much we can do about it.
When the vet told us that, I was devastated. She kept him for 5 hours, trying to make him puke. Hydrgen peroxide didn't work, so he got ipecac. There were no petals or leaves in the vomit (but we knew all he ate was the inside pollen things anyways), so he got to come home.
When we tried to feed him that night, he rapidly declined. He wouldn't eat, and threw up once, but there was nothing in his poor little belly, so it was just that foamy stuff.
Anyways, my poor thing spent that night so lethargic, and drooling, and smelling bad, and generally looking awful. We were terrified that somehow he had managed to digest the flower, and was getting ill.
The vet said though, that ipecac is rough on kitties, and stays with them for a while. The whole ordeal was Monday afternoon, and he has perked up a lot, isn't drooling, and even got 'the rips' today. =) He still isn't 100%, but at least he's pulled though.
I just wanted everyone to know just in case they didn't know how super toxic lilies are, with Easter coming up and all. Please make sure the babies don;t eat any, so they don't have to go through what Orion did, and thier mommys and daddies don't have to think they are the worst mommies and daddies ever.
Warm Fuzzies and Purrs,
Spring
We had a vet appt Monday cuz the little guy (he's approx 7 mos...rescued feral) got stepped on and was lookin pretty sad.
As we came in from warming up the car for him, he came runnin up to uswith his little white face all yellow. We went and checked things out to see what he got into.
Lo and behold, the defied the countless sprayings of bitter apple, and ate all the pollen out of a Stargazer Lily in a V-day flower arrangement.
Here's the part that makes me feel like the worst kitty mommy ever. I had no idea that lilies were so very toxic to cats. =( I even stopped to take a couple of pics of him, cuz he looked so silly with all that pollen on his face. We are so lucky that we were headed right to the vet anyway, because if I wouldn't have taken the morning off and he had done that when no one was around, it very well may have been to late to do anything, since by the time the symptoms appear, they are in renal failure, and there's not much we can do about it.
When the vet told us that, I was devastated. She kept him for 5 hours, trying to make him puke. Hydrgen peroxide didn't work, so he got ipecac. There were no petals or leaves in the vomit (but we knew all he ate was the inside pollen things anyways), so he got to come home.
When we tried to feed him that night, he rapidly declined. He wouldn't eat, and threw up once, but there was nothing in his poor little belly, so it was just that foamy stuff.
Anyways, my poor thing spent that night so lethargic, and drooling, and smelling bad, and generally looking awful. We were terrified that somehow he had managed to digest the flower, and was getting ill.
The vet said though, that ipecac is rough on kitties, and stays with them for a while. The whole ordeal was Monday afternoon, and he has perked up a lot, isn't drooling, and even got 'the rips' today. =) He still isn't 100%, but at least he's pulled though.
I just wanted everyone to know just in case they didn't know how super toxic lilies are, with Easter coming up and all. Please make sure the babies don;t eat any, so they don't have to go through what Orion did, and thier mommys and daddies don't have to think they are the worst mommies and daddies ever.
Warm Fuzzies and Purrs,
Spring
