Author Topic: The pet-specific bad news thread (Read 97345 times)

Mrs Pingu · « **Reply #400 on:** 22 August, 2018, 01:34:09 pm »

Aw, sorry fuzzy

Gattopardo · « **Reply #401 on:** 22 August, 2018, 01:46:50 pm »

Quote from: fuzzy (retd.) AAGE on 21 August, 2018, 10:40:47 pm

Today was one of those days where being a pet owner is an emotional sump.

IMG_0037 by Matt Langridge, on Flickr

Condolences to you and your family.

Little furry beast creep in to your heart, am crying too. In a 'spoons pub.

barakta · « **Reply #402 on:** 22 August, 2018, 04:14:51 pm »

So sorry to read this, but sounds like you did the right thing.

Peter · « **Reply #403 on:** 22 August, 2018, 04:19:46 pm »

That's hard, Fuzzy. All the best.

Peter

fuzzy · « **Reply #404 on:** 24 August, 2018, 10:24:57 pm »

Thanks for your wishes folks. It still hurts. I keep expecting her to walk through the door or accross the shed roof or sneak into the bedroom and annoy us out of bed

CAMRAMan · « **Reply #405 on:** 16 September, 2018, 10:49:11 am »

Bad news: Dougie, our 18-month-old tabby, had his tail skinned last night. Quite how that happened is not known. Whatever, he will be tailless from now on.

Good news: There is enough skin at the stump to create a flap to stitch over the stump.

Bad news: The forthcoming bill

Good news: He's insured

Mrs Pingu · « **Reply #406 on:** 16 September, 2018, 11:12:49 am »

Ouch! Poor Dougie.

hellymedic · « **Reply #407 on:** 16 September, 2018, 11:29:40 am »

OUCH! GWS Dougie!

Our cats' tails keep getting under our feet; So far, they don't seem to have been harmed.

I wish I could stop them!

CAMRAMan · « **Reply #408 on:** 16 September, 2018, 02:13:10 pm »

Someone, somewhere will have the skin & fur of a tabby cat tail caught on a fence or something similar. Quite a find!

hellymedic · « **Reply #409 on:** 16 September, 2018, 03:08:24 pm »

Wonder if it was a sprung letter-box flap? I know a chap who lost his right index fingertip in one of those!
They can be VICIOUS!

CAMRAMan · « **Reply #410 on:** 16 September, 2018, 04:40:35 pm »

Well, he's back from the vet's. He looks like a baboon at the moment & is rather grumpy - understandably so. He has one of those collars to put round his neck to stop him bothering the wound, which adds to the comic effect. Bless.

Now, where's that insurance claim form? £574, please.

hellymedic · « **Reply #411 on:** 16 September, 2018, 05:57:26 pm »

I understand the polite name for the Cone of Shame is 'Elizabethan Collar'.

CAMRAMan · « **Reply #412 on:** 16 September, 2018, 06:27:01 pm »

That's a bit ruff.

IGMC!

CAMRAMan · « **Reply #413 on:** 18 September, 2018, 05:28:22 pm »

Despite the collar, the little blighter managed to pull out some of the stitches. He's back at the vets having internal stitches put in. Another £250!

hellymedic · « **Reply #414 on:** 18 September, 2018, 06:07:25 pm »

Oh dear!

Very relieved our ferals had only hidden absorbable stitches and no collars when they were 'done' earlier this year!

Basil · « **Reply #415 on:** 22 September, 2018, 07:43:11 pm »

I've had three fatalities in a week in my aquarium. One of the mollies, one guppie and one other, the name of I can't recall just now.
Anyway, as I was fishing out today's body I noticed the water seemed very warm. Checked the heater. It's knackered and stays on all the time. Poor fish. I've been poaching them.

Mrs Pingu · « **Reply #416 on:** 22 September, 2018, 11:01:51 pm »

Palinurus · « **Reply #417 on:** 07 October, 2018, 06:23:12 pm »

Likely we'll have Boushti put down this week, found out yesterday that he's got a grossly enlarged liver- probably a tumour- and it's causing him breathing difficulties (it's so large it's pressing on his diaphragm). He is still eating and drinking but hasn't wanted to go out, hasn't woken me up at 4:30 or similar for a couple of days. We've had him since 2005 but I've no idea how old he was then. We've known he's had some sort of liver problem for a while- his liver enzyme values have been very high.

Mrs Pingu · « **Reply #418 on:** 07 October, 2018, 08:12:43 pm »

Aw, poor Boushti

Mrs Pingu · « **Reply #419 on:** 25 November, 2018, 03:40:46 pm »

Ninkasi's gone missing

hellymedic · « **Reply #420 on:** 25 November, 2018, 04:02:23 pm »

Hope Ninkasi returns soon!

Worrying, isn't it?

Mrs Pingu · « **Reply #421 on:** 25 November, 2018, 04:57:45 pm »

Yup. At least the last time she went AWOL I managed to locate some pitiful mewing coming from a neighbour's outbuilding before I went to bed for the night. Not this time. It's getting cold for a little kitty with not much fat or fur on her $:-\$
Put c.100 notes through all neighbouring properties asking them to check outhouses this morning. Her sister looks a bit down in the dumps today.

Jaded · « **Reply #422 on:** 25 November, 2018, 07:18:44 pm »

Fingers crossed

hellymedic · « **Reply #423 on:** 26 November, 2018, 12:13:47 am »

Our Blackie was about 4 months old and a fortnight since she was spayed, when she disappeared the day before Valentine's this year.

It was VERY cold and she reappeared 6 days later, possibly minus the tip of her left ear.

Pingu · « **Reply #424 on:** 27 November, 2018, 09:48:38 am »

And she's back

She was hungry but otherwise seems OK. Her sister, Pumpkin, is not impressed - a lot of hissing and growling. Perhaps Ninkasi smells wrong now.