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So, I have a cat who threw up a piece of fabric (maybe a quarter inch thick). He's a fat cat and he's on a diet food but it doesn't seem to be working. Having seen that, I'm a little concerned he's been eating some other garbage around the house and wanted to look into it. He's not been acting strange or anything and this has been going on for some time with him getting regularly seen by vets, his stomach's been felt and his poo's been tested, blood tests for things, etc., no one's ever raised any alarms.
So I called up our vet about it (who has always been great to us except when it comes to my cat with FLUTD, who usually has to be bullied past the demands to bring him in every single time he has an episode to stress him out for 0 benefit), and explained my concerns. I got completely stonewalled by a guideline that this was a "foreign body problem" (because he threw up a piece of fabric...) and there was absolutely no way they'd make me an appointment, he has to be seen by the emergency vet.
I'm usually the kind of cat mom who will bring her boys in for any damn thing (and have!) and I'd actually called earlier to make sure something happening to the other cat wasn't an emergency (and he's being seen soon by his PCP). But I just don't see where the emergency is here, and if I have to bring a cat in every single time they throw up something they shouldn't have eaten, I'm going to stop being honest with my vet.
Has anyone else heard of this guideline? Is there a way around it? Are they expecting something to happen other than people just getting frustrated and not taking their animals in at all? I'm up to my eyeballs in doctor and vet appointments, just had the worst day in living memory, and it's snowing buckets. So I'll admit this is a bit of a vent post but does anyone else have experience with this kind of thing?
Thanks in advance and apologies for the bitterness, this has really soured my grapes.
So I called up our vet about it (who has always been great to us except when it comes to my cat with FLUTD, who usually has to be bullied past the demands to bring him in every single time he has an episode to stress him out for 0 benefit), and explained my concerns. I got completely stonewalled by a guideline that this was a "foreign body problem" (because he threw up a piece of fabric...) and there was absolutely no way they'd make me an appointment, he has to be seen by the emergency vet.
I'm usually the kind of cat mom who will bring her boys in for any damn thing (and have!) and I'd actually called earlier to make sure something happening to the other cat wasn't an emergency (and he's being seen soon by his PCP). But I just don't see where the emergency is here, and if I have to bring a cat in every single time they throw up something they shouldn't have eaten, I'm going to stop being honest with my vet.
Has anyone else heard of this guideline? Is there a way around it? Are they expecting something to happen other than people just getting frustrated and not taking their animals in at all? I'm up to my eyeballs in doctor and vet appointments, just had the worst day in living memory, and it's snowing buckets. So I'll admit this is a bit of a vent post but does anyone else have experience with this kind of thing?
Thanks in advance and apologies for the bitterness, this has really soured my grapes.