Cat worries

[pameladean]

Agh. I was going to post a nice cheerful bouncy "see you in a week," but my cat is still limping quite badly on his left front paw, and I'm taking him over to the vet to get X-rays this afternoon. I'm hoping very hard that the sequel to this will not be hauling him off to the University of Minnesota Small Animal Clinic in Friday afternoon traffic. I don't know what can be wrong with him. He acts quite perky otherwise, and his single complaint is that since I won't let him downstairs, he is bored out of his mind and deeply put upon. Well, right now he is also starving, having had no food since midnight, but that is a more temporary situation.

Jordan hates her antibiotic (who wouldn't; gloppy orange goo, yuck) and is ever more creative in drooling or spitting it around, not to mention making us fear that we'll injure her or she'll injure herself in her resistance to the administration of the despised glop.

In better news, David will be home from California tonight; Eric arrives tomorrow; the city has reposted the street for cleaning on Monday, so there will not be gigantic boulders of ice, snow, and maple leaves to impede parking; and I retain far more copy-typing skills than I had any right to expect.

A lot of you have far worse travails than the ones I'm complaining of, and I'll be thinking of you even as I fall behind in reading for a week or so.

P.

Comments

[halfmoon-mollie.livejournal.com]

hope your kitty is okay, and by extension you are as well.

Enjoy your holiday.

[pameladean]

Thank you for your good wishes.

"By extension," yep, that's pretty much how it goes.

P.

[dragovianknight.livejournal.com]

Jordan hates her antibiotic (who wouldn't; gloppy orange goo, yuck) and is ever more creative in drooling or spitting it around

I have a spitter (see icon); luckily, she's very small, or I'd never get her medicated.

[pameladean]

Those tiny little "butter wouldn't melt" ones are always a handful. What a beautiful cat.

P.

[eub.livejournal.com]

This fish-flavored doxycycline is better than sliced bread -- "best thing since fish-flavored doxycycline" is what I say nowadays -- in that my patient, at least, will happily eat it mixed in his food. And unsliced bread I can slice myself without picking up stray knife-nicks on my hands.

[inlaterdays.livejournal.com]

have fun, and i hope your kitty feels a lot better soon!

[pameladean]

Thanks! And tell Migoto to take good care of you.

I expect I'll post an update if I can get it together.

P.

[inlaterdays.livejournal.com]

thanks :) migoto's an excellent nurse...sits right with me, and never lets me forget when it's time for HER food. ;) she's really comforting to have around, though.

[von-krag.livejournal.com]

Somehow this sounds just like Miss Tobi-Ko... We never really see all of what a cat does. Maybe their is just one cat ruling the world?

[inlaterdays.livejournal.com]

could well be. for humans are easily fooled (at least migoto's human is)...one of her favorite games consists of staring wide-eyed at a spot on the wall until her human pet gives in and looks too...and then giving said human pet one of her patented pleased-with-herself looks.

Hello, and cat stuff, and on and on....

[markiv1111.livejournal.com]

Always good to hear from you at all. Louie and I just adopted a stray kitty (we found her, or she found us, in the parking lot of a club in Mora, Minnesota, where I was playing -- very, very hungry, and friendly) and we're giving her ear medicine. (She's been pretty much adopted by Louie's son James, who lives next door to us, in our double bungalow.) But she's developed digestive problems, which might be partly because James had left some cheese out that she got into, and might be partly because she's been trying to get at, and then eat/lick, the ear medicine. We've established a good rapport with a nearby small animal clinic; things are pricey, but we can't imagine not taking care of her. Louie has spent several years insisting that she's not a cat person, but I have *completely* stopped believing that -- she is the one who lured the kitty into our car and has been doing most of the kitty caretaking.

Nate

Re: Hello, and cat stuff, and on and on....

[pameladean]

Jordan also had digestive problems from licking off her ear salve; luckily, for her it was a one-time treatment followed by antibiotics.

Some people who say they aren't cat people really aren't; others fear to be ensnared.

It's great that you were able to rescue this cat.

P.

[jackiejj.livejournal.com]

Please take a second to update us about your cat's condition! I hope he's feeling better soon. If he's perky otherwise, hopefully this is very fixable.

I'm glad David is coming home, and then Eric!

[coffeeem.livejournal.com]

Poor Ari--I hope all may yet be very well.

As for Jordan, if you want to throw money at the problem, find out if your vet knows of a compounding pharmacist who does veterinary prescriptions. (They very often do; one of the most common animal liquid antibiotics is also prescribed for children, which is why it has that hideous bubblegum smell, and I assume, taste.)

We did this once, and admittedly, the cat's prescription, $17 from the vet, cost us 40 bucks. But the compounding pharmacist took the unflavored liquid antibiotic and flavored it with Triple Fish, which he said was a combination of salmon, sardine, and some other powerful fishy cat-mojo.

The cat literally sucked it out of the eyedropper and begged for another dose. He and I were both sad when his course of treatment was over.

[pameladean]

Avoiding the daily struggle might be worth forty bucks. I have no idea why they don't just flavor the damn stuff with fish to start with. I suppose the pediatric version is cheaper, being made in mass quantities and all -- though I bet a lot of kids hate it too.

Thanks; I'll pass the tip on to R.

P.

(Steadfastly avoiding wriggling like a puppy because I'm so glad to see you.)

[coffeeem.livejournal.com]

Well, you know me: I finally had to join LJ in order to have an icon. (And it's always a delight to see you!)

Re: Cat worries

[pir-anha.livejournal.com]

here's hoping there is a quick (and cheap) solution to the bad paw.

you've probably tried mixing the antibiotic with the most exquisite of wet cat foods already? if not, you could try putting it into a gelatin capsule and pilling her with it.