Okay, everyone here probably knows by now that we have six cats. I’m just getting that over with, and if anyone wants to comment on that, please go elsewhere.
Misty, the second oldest of the bunch, as always had bad allergies. She’s always wheezing and snorting, and by now, we’re used to it.
However, for the past few weeks, she’s been really bad. Her nose is running constantly, sometimes bleeding (from scabs), she’s stuffed up, and you can hear her snorting from another room.
So, my mother called the vet to make an appointment for this Wednesday. The doctor mentioned that it’s probably some kind of blockage-could be a polyp, or there’s a possibility it’s a tumor.
I’m praying it’s not, but why does this have to happen around the holidays?
Oh, and if you’re going to come in here and snark that “it’s just a cat!” And “there are PEOPLE out there dying, and much worse could happen”, please, just go elsewhere.
We had this problem with George the parrot. The runny, snorty nose stuff is usually an early sign of death in birds, especially when when they get fluffy and lethargic (massive infection or pain). It turned out he had shoved a piece of cuttlefish bone up his nose and it had swelled up. One birdy roto-rooter later and he was fine, and only slightly snotty. He lived another 11 years, with a slight chronic sinus problem. When a parrot snorts mucous out, the nostrils point up, allowing them launch booger-bullets up to 2 feet. There is a chance that Misty has a similar trouble (mechanical blockage). I wish you good luck
For the time being, we have her on steroids, to shrink the blockage in her nose, so she can breath and be able to eat (because she can’t smell her food).
But really, it’s a question of when-not if. So for now, we’re just going to make sure she’s comfortable. She’s not in any pain, for the time being.
sigh I just don’t know what to say. I’m mostly just numb right now.
(And if that isn’t bad enough, Noel has to have her tail amputated, because it got infected from her chewing it. Dumbass cat. She’ll be fine, once she gets her balance back.)
Aw, I’m sorry to hear this. I know how animals can become part of the family and how sad it is when somethign like this occurs. All my best to you and Misty.
I recently lost a little 13 year old Jack Russell the same way. He had seasonal allergies that we treated with steroids, nebulizers, IVs … He always seemed to get better, but one Saturday he just crashed. It was cancer. I was so not ready.
It should-if she’d just let us get them down her-rather than forcing herself to throw them back up. (She’s done that before)
Noel, on the other hand, is seriously pissed off. She’s got the collar, and she’s forced to stay in my sister’s room. She’s pissy because she can’t get at her tail, and she keeps trying to get out and scratch the collar off. Oh, this is going to be fun.
See if you can find Pill Pockets. They carry them at PetSmart.
They work with two of my cats and one of them a bit of the time.
We’ve also tried them with two cats with kidney failure and they didn’t work at all. But those cats weren’t eating, so it’s hard to say if they would have liked them if they had felt better.
Oh, and depending on the drug, there may be an option to get it in a liquid form. Our Halley needed prednisone for her eosinophilia and there was a drugstore where they would do specialty compounds and put it in a tuna-flavored liquid. She LOVED that stuff. It was foul, but cats are weird as hell.
She’s getting worse. She’s losing weight rapidly, and her nose is always running, when it’s not bleeding. Her fur is a sticky mess from this, and she smells like it, too.
She did crawl into my lap the other day when I was watching Law&Order, something she hasn’t done for a long time. Seeing her go down hill and knowing it’s only a matter of time is the worst part.
But…I can’t cry. I’m not crying yet. I guess it hasn’t fully sunk in yet.
