Tummy Troubles
Mar. 3rd, 2006 06:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
c9Lucky is gracing us with his high-frequency vomiting act, previously staged in Kitchener last year around this time. I don't freakin' know what to do.
I just read about 18 pages of veterinary information around cat vomit. There's a subject to keep you awake at night. The problem is we've done basically everything short of blood work and surgery, but the maddening randomness makes those seem so excessive. I mean, they're probably not now, but fuck.
Different food? Tried three different foods.
Canned versus dry? Tried it. Seemed to work best, so they've been on canned for almost a year now.
Worms? Vet found none.
Eating too fast/much? It's not always food.
Hairballs? It's not always hair.
Mad at us for traveling and leaving him alone? It's not always around trips.
Blood? None, ever.
Other symptoms? None -- always perky and energetic.
So now we're faced with bloodwork ($75? I think?) and/or surgery ($500 at least). It's at this point that many pet owners decide the pet has outspent its budget. I wonder if this is why Lucky was abandoned / left at the shelter? I find it so frustrating to clean up cat puke and have to deal with this so often, but part of me just can't bear the idea of giving up. It would be an admission of failure. "I couldn't take the challenge, so I quit." I quit things way too often, and I don't want to quit anything in the "caring for another being" category. I don't mean this in a judgemental way, I just mean personally the idea upsets me.
When we rescued the cats, the adoption agency had us sign all sorts of paperwork saying we would not send them back to the shelter, we wouldn't put them down, etc etc, except in extreme circumstances. I agreed with the letter and spirit. Now we have to face up to that, but I don't really know where my cat vomit limits are.
The real world sucks. I want to go back to being17 16 14 12 6 or so.
I just read about 18 pages of veterinary information around cat vomit. There's a subject to keep you awake at night. The problem is we've done basically everything short of blood work and surgery, but the maddening randomness makes those seem so excessive. I mean, they're probably not now, but fuck.
Different food? Tried three different foods.
Canned versus dry? Tried it. Seemed to work best, so they've been on canned for almost a year now.
Worms? Vet found none.
Eating too fast/much? It's not always food.
Hairballs? It's not always hair.
Mad at us for traveling and leaving him alone? It's not always around trips.
Blood? None, ever.
Other symptoms? None -- always perky and energetic.
So now we're faced with bloodwork ($75? I think?) and/or surgery ($500 at least). It's at this point that many pet owners decide the pet has outspent its budget. I wonder if this is why Lucky was abandoned / left at the shelter? I find it so frustrating to clean up cat puke and have to deal with this so often, but part of me just can't bear the idea of giving up. It would be an admission of failure. "I couldn't take the challenge, so I quit." I quit things way too often, and I don't want to quit anything in the "caring for another being" category. I don't mean this in a judgemental way, I just mean personally the idea upsets me.
When we rescued the cats, the adoption agency had us sign all sorts of paperwork saying we would not send them back to the shelter, we wouldn't put them down, etc etc, except in extreme circumstances. I agreed with the letter and spirit. Now we have to face up to that, but I don't really know where my cat vomit limits are.
The real world sucks. I want to go back to being
