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firecatOtherwise I might be a lot more freaked out about having had to spend New Year's Eve at the emergency vet with Angus.
He refused food and was straining and producing a couple of drops of urine each time. I know urinary tract blockage is a serious condition for male cats so I took him to the emergency vet. But they couldn't find a blockage, so they took an X-ray. It turned out the problem was with the other sort of elimination - he was chronically constipated.
They gave him an enema. Then they had to wash him. Then when I got him home, I had to wash him some more. Poor guy. I also have to switch him to high fiber food now, or add pumpkin or metamucil to his food.
I had no idea how lucky I was with my cat Selkie, who never had a single health problem until the last couple years of her 12 years with me. Both of my cats have chronic problems now. At least Biscuit's vomiting episodes seem to be staying under control with application of allergy pills.
He refused food and was straining and producing a couple of drops of urine each time. I know urinary tract blockage is a serious condition for male cats so I took him to the emergency vet. But they couldn't find a blockage, so they took an X-ray. It turned out the problem was with the other sort of elimination - he was chronically constipated.
They gave him an enema. Then they had to wash him. Then when I got him home, I had to wash him some more. Poor guy. I also have to switch him to high fiber food now, or add pumpkin or metamucil to his food.
I had no idea how lucky I was with my cat Selkie, who never had a single health problem until the last couple years of her 12 years with me. Both of my cats have chronic problems now. At least Biscuit's vomiting episodes seem to be staying under control with application of allergy pills.
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Date: 2 Jan 2006 03:25 am (UTC)Tell me more about allergy tablets for vomiting. Steve was good up until the beginning of December, but since his winter coat has come in, he's Mr.Vomit again. Not much hair in the vomit, so I don't think it is hairballs, often it is just a lot of food.
Thankfully, our kitties are both healthy (except for the vomit, which I take more as an annoyance).
Friends mentioned the _Bissell Spotbot_ at a party this week. It's an unattended spot cleaner that does a great job on pet fluids.
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Date: 2 Jan 2006 07:38 am (UTC)Biscuit seems to have a problem with itchy skin that leads to overgrooming and repeated episodes where she vomits multiple times for as much as six or eight hours. There's never hair in it, but the vet thinks the vomiting is the result of hair anyway - it can sit in the stomach and irritate the lining. The vomiting started after we got our second cat, and she grooms him too.
I tried a bunch of things. What seems to work at the moment anyway is giving her 1/4 tablet of chlorpheniramine every three days or so.