This is wonderful news!!!:D
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This is wonderful news!!!:D
Yea!!!!
Thank you, Lord.
That is fantastic news!! She misses you!
The greatest news we could hear! I am so glad that Kiri is feeling better. When will she get to come home from the vet?
Oh please keep getting better Kiri! This is great news.
HOORAY!! great news!!! C'om Kiri!!!
Oh HALLELUJAH! Such wonderful news. Keep on getting better, little Kiri, and before long you will be back with your meowmie and all your companions who love you so much.
Prayers, hugs, purrs, wishes, energies, chants, blessings to you,
Sydney, Elmer, Pat, Peony, Poppy, and Priscilla
YES! *happydance!*
Love, Columbine
Kiri, you rock :)
It looks to me as if the situation was similar with Catnapper's Pouncer- a bad UTI which maybe has not been treated early enough. This is why our kitties have some extra lifes :)
I should be able to bring her home tomorrow! They've been force-feeding her at the vet's, hoping that will bring back her appetite. She's still not wanting to eat on her own, but she's keeping the food down and looking perkier. And they still don't seem to know just what brought this on. They said that they can't tell for sure whether it was the food--it could have been stress. :(
I've already got Lily back with me, and I think she's wondering where the other cats are. Tomorrow I'll get Kacey and Kiri. I just hope I can keep Kiri from becoming too upset during the moving process--I'm hoping to move during April, even if it means that I'll have to stay with my parents or sister for a little while until I can get a house.
Is there a mild tranny taht the vet can give you to give to Kiri?
I bet when she is back home, she will start nibbling....her Meowmie will be there after all! :)
I'll find out about that before the move.Quote:
Originally Posted by Catty1
She might not want to eat just because she's at the vet. I hope she continues to improve and you can bring her home soon.
Well, I think you're doing a great job. Kiri seems to have a strong spirit and that'll keep her going during the move, especially now that she'll be back w/you. Soon you'll be in your new place and this will all be a memory, one that you can look back on and say "I did the best I could and it worked." Those prayers haven't stopped for Kiri and you and all your furkids.
The good news is that Kiri is home and sitting on my lap right now.
The bad news is that she's got a bad URI along with everything else. No wonder she's not wanting to eat! I hope I don't have to force-feed her, but whatever it takes.
The worst news is that the vet thinks that there's some kind of hard-to-detect cancer underlying all of this. He said that he's seen several cats whose kidney failure was likely caused by the poisoned food (one died :( ), and none of them had their kidney functions bounce back the way Kiri's did. So he thinks that her problems are caused by something else.
She's obviously a sick kitty right now, but I don't think she's ready to give up yet. I've got to get some food into her, though. I'm going to pick up some baby food for her--any suggestions as to what flavors might be tempting?
Penny, you know I am so not going to tell you to feed her baby food..................................may I intrude on our friendship? Try some cottage cheese and yougurt, also some scrambled egg.
just my 2 cents hun
Love ya
Kym
I'll give those a try. Thanks!Quote:
Originally Posted by Dr.Goodnow
When I first got Puddy at 5 wks. old, my vet had me feed her chicken baby food. Of course, she didn't have a UTI. But w/out a doubt, all my furkids love chicken.
Mine too. I think I had Beechnut chicken and broth and turkey and broth, and also the sweetpotatoes. Just make sure there are no onions or garlic in the ingredients. Could you also cook some chicken on your own and puree it with some of the cooked broth? That way you could blend it into a slurry and use a large needleless syringe to force feed her if necessary.
Kiri still won't eat on her own, probably because she's got a nasty case of the sniffles and can't smell the food. I've been syringe-feeding her Royal Canin recovery diet mixed with some chicken broth (tried to get her to eat some of the chicken, but no luck with that). She's been drinking some water and using the litterbox. But she's still a sick little kitty, and I'm still very worried about her.
How about trying a bit of really stinky tuna or a bit of canned salmon? Or a can of cheaper stinky cat food?
If you have some Vicks, let her sniff a dab on your finger...that might help too.
PT PRAYERS for little Kiri! You've come this far sweetie, keep moving ahead!
We'll keep the prayers going. Don't give up hope. Kiri is a fighter.
It is so hard when our kitties won't eat. :( But keep up the force feeding, to keep up her strength, and she should come around soon. Sending more prayers.
More prayers for sweet Kiri from us all.
Hugs and purrs,
Pat, Peony, Sydney, Priscilla, Poppy, and Elmer
Kiri is staying the same, which worries me. She still won't eat on her own, so I'm still syringe-feeding her. I don't know whether she's drinking much on her own, although I've seen her at the water bowl a couple of times--so I'm giving her water from a squeeze bottle every so often (plus I have to mix some water into the food to get it through the syringe.
She's using the litter box (no poops so far, though). And she's still got some fight in her--she's able to climb into my lap, where she spends a lot of time. And she tried to get out of the room I'm keeping her in when I opened the door this morning. But she's so thin and weak.
I've got a call in to the vet who treated her last week, to see whether he has any suggestions.
From here too.Quote:
Originally Posted by phesina
I think it was Pouncer - or some other PT cat - who still wasn't quite right after getting over the worst of something similar to what Kiri had...and a shot or two of Vitamin B12 really seemed to help.
If you haven't talked to your vet yet, that might be an idea.
It's all I can think of at the moment...prayers and good thoughts continuing!
This is my first time on here---so sorry, but I'll add extra prayers to make up for it all--I know how it is to fight kidney disease in a kitty. Keep it up--we'll keep up the prayers on our ends since that's all we can do. Kiri, we know you can do---she needs you. Yvonne
Warming up her food makes it smellier too. Try adding a bit of Kitty Kaviar or other bonito flakes and warming it up - if she can't smell that I'll be surprised!
Love, Columbine
Have you tried holding something really stinky to her nose? Even a can of Fancy Feast might stimulate her! Junk food I know, but just to get her eating.
If you have a small steamer (add Vicks), maybe put her in the bathroom for a bit and steam up the room, or even with a hot shower running.
Eucalyptus oil...tea tree oil...just thinking of things that would get through her nostrils!
HUGS
I'm so sorry to hear that Kiri is still not eating on her own.:(
Catty1, it was my Starr that had the vitamin B-12 shot and this really perked him up. I don't know if this would help Kiri but it might be worth a try.
Lots of prayers and positive thoughts are being sent her way.
Kiri is back at the vet's--not the same vet as before, but one near my house. She was getting dehydrated again. Still no clue what's really wrong with her.
I don't want to give up on her, but I worry about whether she's trying to let go by not eating or drinking. She hasn't been trying to get away and hide--she's spent most of the last few days on my lap. So I don't know what she's trying to tell me.
I am so sorry to hear this. :( I sure hope they can get her feeling better, good enough to eat on her own.
You tell that Kat, that after her siblings chorused me all night, I expect her to visit and chorus also!! No if ands or Buts! she is now in big trouble if she doesn't quit worrying Mom! :eek:Quote:
Originally Posted by CatsinDenver
Love, aunty Kym
Oh I'm sorry to hear this. Let's pray that Kiri will get rehydrated and feeling better again.
More prayers for Kiri!
You did it before, sweetie - just one more time!
HUGS
I just want to tell you a little (ok kinda long) story about Dusty that may help you have some hope with Kiri.
In 1997 Dusty ate her supper, and then vomited. Which wasn't all that uncommon for her as she often used to do that until we switched to better foods. Anyways while she vomited she apparently inhaled some of it and ended up getting aspiration pneumonia. She stopped eating, drinking and grooming altogether, we figured she blamed the food for her feeling so ill.
Dusty had to be at the vets for a week. They tried pilling her (which normally is difficult anyways) and they ended up having to call me to do it because Dusty kept holding her breath till she'd pass out to keep from having to take a pill. So basically after a couple days of this they had to find injectables to use instead. She still wouldn't eat a thing, they tried salmon, tuna, sardines, a plethera of foods and she turned her nose up at every one of them. They nuked the food, tried raw food, nothing! She rattled when she breathed, and was losing weight every day.
They sent her home for a couple days hoping being at home would help her recovery. She was such a sad thing just hovering over the water bowl but not drinking, still not eating or even attempting to groom. She wouldn't even walk, she just lay wherever you put her at. They told us to try putting her in the bathroom next to a hot tub running so the hot steam might clear up her congestion so she could breath better. I don't know how much water we ran but it was alot! Seemed to help her breathing but she still wouldn't eat. We had to run her back twice a day for injections for fluids and medications.
She was doing better with the breathing, and would walk some but still not eating or drinking at all! So back to the vets for a few days.
They put her in an oxygen tent for a day to help the breathing so she could rest and heal better. They even did an EKG on her, and a ton more lab work. After a few more days they had the pneumonia cleared up but Dusty still wouldn't eat, still blamed the food. They couldn't even force feed her because she'd fight them so much on it and refused to be fed. They tried Valium 3 times (it's side effect in cats is ravanous appetite), didn't work at all for Dusty. So they sent her back home again over a weekend and said that if she didn't eat for us that we should consider having her PTS as they had fixed the pneumonia but couldn't figure out how to get her to eat and drink.
We took her home on a Saturday, by Sunday my mom called and set up an appointment for her to be PTS on Monday unless something changed. Nothing changed, still no eating or drinking, very little walking.
Monday morning 1 hour until PTS time - We're sitting there with her saying our goodbyes and crying, when lo and behold Dusty started grooming!!! She hadn't done that through the whole episode! They'd said if she would groom she might eat, so we ran and got a bowl of her favorite crunchies. Dusty got excited and licked her lips but wouldn't eat. Not to be thwarted we watered down the crunchies and wouldn't you know it, Dusty ATE!!! You never saw more happy humans in your life!! We waited 15 minutes to make sure the food would stay down, and during that time she also drank water!! All on her own!!! We called the vet to reschedule the appointment for later in the day as a RECHECK! Her food all stayed down, she had eaten more and drank more, and thoroughly groomed herself by the time we took her in that evening.
Basically they said if Dusty wasn't slightly overweight when this started she might not have made it at all. After that we made sure even when we put her on a diet, that she was slightly overweight. They also said in Dusty's case it was unusual for her to not eat for that long and not suffer kidney damage. Dusty is one lucky kitty that used at least 5 of her 9 lives that November in 1997.
Time Dusty did not eat: 16 DAYS
Dusty's weight at time of illness: 14 lbs
Dusty's weight at time of recovery: 7 lbs
Dusty currently sufferes severe osteoarthritis and muscle atrophy and is on experimental pain medication. I don't know how long the experimental meds will work or what kind of damage they might cause, but always the trooper she is still with us at 16 1/2 years old now.
**Just thought Dusty's story might give you some hope with Kiri!**
Catlady, thank you for telling Dusty's story! I hope Kiri can make the same sort of comeback.
And thank you, everyone, for continuing to wish Kiri well. It means a great deal to me.
More prayers and wishes for the very best for Kiri,
Love,
Pat, Peony, Sydney, Priscilla, Poppy, and Elmer