Sick Bagheera
Jun. 6th, 2010 06:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
figmentIt seems like my cat is sick. If you have any desire to read symptoms & opine on causes, treatment, or recommend vets in the St. Paul area, here you go:
Bagheera (pictured cat) has always been a little on the tender stomach side, but giving him hairball treatment seems to help and generally he's very healthy. Today, though, I fed him at 6:45 AM and by 7:00 he had puked it all up (one website I read said that this is regurgitation, not vomiting, because the food was largely still intact although yellow with bile). Then he retched and threw up some liquid about 30 minutes later. At 11:30 AM he was still seeming kind of sick and after I petted him and gently suggested that I hoped he wouldn't get sick again guess what happened? Yep, more retching and throwing up a tiny dribble of liquid. I was gone for most of the day so I'm not sure if anything else happened, but Azure didn't observe anything and there are no little puddles so I'm going to say there was no more vomiting. At about 5:45 PM I heard a terrible series of mournful kitty moans from the litter box, where Bagheera appeared to strain and sit for a good 5-10 minutes to no effect. He's moving around pretty normally now but does seem extra-inclined to just loaf in one spot right now.
He's 10 years old, and generally healthy. He's been drinking water at a regular pace lately. He eats dry cat food, Purina One, sometimes the indoor formula, and almost never gets anything else.
If he's constipated, it looks like the cause could be anything from hairballs to dehydration to polyps or other awful options. I don't have any specific hairball remedy in the house but I may give him some olive oil... Any thoughts? Any vet recommendations in St. Paul? I'm worried about my little buddy.
Bagheera (pictured cat) has always been a little on the tender stomach side, but giving him hairball treatment seems to help and generally he's very healthy. Today, though, I fed him at 6:45 AM and by 7:00 he had puked it all up (one website I read said that this is regurgitation, not vomiting, because the food was largely still intact although yellow with bile). Then he retched and threw up some liquid about 30 minutes later. At 11:30 AM he was still seeming kind of sick and after I petted him and gently suggested that I hoped he wouldn't get sick again guess what happened? Yep, more retching and throwing up a tiny dribble of liquid. I was gone for most of the day so I'm not sure if anything else happened, but Azure didn't observe anything and there are no little puddles so I'm going to say there was no more vomiting. At about 5:45 PM I heard a terrible series of mournful kitty moans from the litter box, where Bagheera appeared to strain and sit for a good 5-10 minutes to no effect. He's moving around pretty normally now but does seem extra-inclined to just loaf in one spot right now.
He's 10 years old, and generally healthy. He's been drinking water at a regular pace lately. He eats dry cat food, Purina One, sometimes the indoor formula, and almost never gets anything else.
If he's constipated, it looks like the cause could be anything from hairballs to dehydration to polyps or other awful options. I don't have any specific hairball remedy in the house but I may give him some olive oil... Any thoughts? Any vet recommendations in St. Paul? I'm worried about my little buddy.
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Date: 2010-06-07 03:36 am (UTC)Give Bagheera skritches from us at the House of Chaos. Maybe some smooches, too.
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Date: 2010-06-07 10:33 pm (UTC)It's not a small financial consideration. I'm grateful we were able to afford it, and can easily see how it could be the deciding factor in what you do with your pet... how heartbreaking. ...And I hope our car holds out that much longer now.