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Hello everyone,
My poor baby boy is not feeling great and I'm worried sick, I cant focus at work and seem to be crying myself to sleep every night fearing the worst. Bubba is my 11 year old kitty who is my constant companion and sidekick.
This past Sunday night after his dinner he started what i could only call gagging and pawing at his mouth ( he has done this before when he swallows one of my long hairs he might come across, but never to this extent) however that evening I felt maybe it was one of my hairs. On Monday he didnt seem to do it...until i fed him, then he did it again. I got him into the vet on Tuesday morning fearing he might have something stuck in his throat causing him discomfort.
He is not vet friendly lol, they call him fractious, sweet as can be at home...but you get him into a vet and ummm, he's not. The vet said to leave him there because they were going to have to use anesthesia to take a look in his mouth and also to get any type of physical exam. The vet called mid day on Tuesday saying they were trying to corral him and he had shredded a towel they had wrapped around him...they finally get him sedated and put under.
Vet says he only has 5 teeth in the back of his mouth and that the others are covered in tartar pretty bad, he gets that chipped off and finds he has a fractured tooth and a fair amount of dental disease, but in the same location he finds a pink mass, his hope is that its just overgrown gum. The mass is in the same location as the fractured tooth.
He gave me tramadol in pill form...yeah thats not gonna work, he cant seem to chew at all and when i mashed it up and put it in his food, well that was just a nightmare.
I am having to mash up his food and add water so its almost like soup, so he wont claw at his mouth and gag. Well he's still doing the gag thing but no pawing at his mouth and his eyes are now tearing up.
Monday I am having to go to another vet who can do xrays, if the xrays are normal they will do a full cleaning, extract his broken tooth and biopsy the pink mass. I am so worried about that mass and also feeling beyond guilty that I didnt follow through on his oral hygiene.
I just needed to post this and see if anyone here has had or gone through the same thing with their kitties?
Purrs and nose boops!
Rayne
My poor baby boy is not feeling great and I'm worried sick, I cant focus at work and seem to be crying myself to sleep every night fearing the worst. Bubba is my 11 year old kitty who is my constant companion and sidekick.
This past Sunday night after his dinner he started what i could only call gagging and pawing at his mouth ( he has done this before when he swallows one of my long hairs he might come across, but never to this extent) however that evening I felt maybe it was one of my hairs. On Monday he didnt seem to do it...until i fed him, then he did it again. I got him into the vet on Tuesday morning fearing he might have something stuck in his throat causing him discomfort.
He is not vet friendly lol, they call him fractious, sweet as can be at home...but you get him into a vet and ummm, he's not. The vet said to leave him there because they were going to have to use anesthesia to take a look in his mouth and also to get any type of physical exam. The vet called mid day on Tuesday saying they were trying to corral him and he had shredded a towel they had wrapped around him...they finally get him sedated and put under.
Vet says he only has 5 teeth in the back of his mouth and that the others are covered in tartar pretty bad, he gets that chipped off and finds he has a fractured tooth and a fair amount of dental disease, but in the same location he finds a pink mass, his hope is that its just overgrown gum. The mass is in the same location as the fractured tooth.
He gave me tramadol in pill form...yeah thats not gonna work, he cant seem to chew at all and when i mashed it up and put it in his food, well that was just a nightmare.
I am having to mash up his food and add water so its almost like soup, so he wont claw at his mouth and gag. Well he's still doing the gag thing but no pawing at his mouth and his eyes are now tearing up.
Monday I am having to go to another vet who can do xrays, if the xrays are normal they will do a full cleaning, extract his broken tooth and biopsy the pink mass. I am so worried about that mass and also feeling beyond guilty that I didnt follow through on his oral hygiene.
I just needed to post this and see if anyone here has had or gone through the same thing with their kitties?
Purrs and nose boops!
Rayne