The pet-specific bad news thread

[Mrs Pingu]

Was the squits not a side effect of the diabetes treatment?

[rogerzilla]

Turned out to be a treatable liver infection. He's coming home today 

Insurance is completely cleared out for diabetes now.  He's going to be an expensive cat.  Also, he's going onto insulin so my daughter gets my place on holiday in July - a neigjbour has offered to inject him but Dumpy doesn't like her (he likes 7 people in the entire world!)

[Pingu]

 

[Flite]

Good news that it is treatable.

neigjbour has offered to inject him

Cats on meds are a real headache.  We have no plans for a holiday, but if we are out of action with illness etc, I think our monster would need to go into a cattery with experience of long term medical problems.
Off to the vets for 6-month check up on Monday. The vet always goes off and tries to get a blood sample then comes back with lacerated hands to tell me she will need to be sedated.
So far Petplan insurance is paying up OK.

[Jurek]

Good news that it is treatable.

neigjbour has offered to inject him

Cats on meds are a real headache.  We have no plans for a holiday, but if we are out of action with illness etc, I think our monster would need to go into a cattery with experience of long term medical problems.
Off to the vets for 6-month check up on Monday. The vet always goes off and tries to get a blood sample then comes back with lacerated hands to tell me she will need to be sedated.
So far Petplan insurance is paying up OK.

My bold.
Kevlar-lined motorcycle clothing used to work well as protection when it came to spraying my three with Flea Deth.

[Mrs Pingu]

Good news it's treatable. Shame the new diabetes thing didn't work out, why are they moving him from that onto insulin, out of interest?

[rogerzilla]

He developed diarrhoea, which is a known side-effect but should clear up and didn't.  It may have been unrelated but they don't want to take the risk again since he became very ill.

He can't go back on it now he's had injected insulin - it's one of the contraindications.

Update: first feed and insulin injection were easy enough.  He has six different medications at the moment, although that will reduce to just insulin and a liver supplement eventually.

[rogerzilla]

Another update: it turns out he is actually easier than Tigs when it comes to administering tablets.  I thought he'd take my hand off but he swallows them without complaint.  Tigs can hide one in his mouth for 5 minutes before spitting it into a secret  corner!