Ugh! Me again. Different cat this time.
Sneakers threw up last night. We didn't think much about it because this is not uncommon for her when she's gearing up for a hairball. It sometimes takes her 2-3 days until 'it' finally happens. There was some grass in the vomit so I also figured that had helped her throw up. The only difference was the smell, it was awful, kind of like it had come from her other end but didn't. (sorry to be so descriptive).
I had to leave for work at 9:30 this a.m. and just got home now (6:15) and my husband told me that I'd better check on her because she was laying in the shop on top of some boxes and was really out of it. I wish that he had called me and I would have left work and taken her to the vet while they were open.
She's able to walk around and stuff but she is very slow moving and she's kind of wincing her eyes as if she is in pain and making these sad little meows. I just offered her a few small pieces of deli ham, her all time favourite thing on the planet and she tried to eat it but couldn't.
What I'm worried about is that the pest control guy came yesterday and sprayed the outside of our house (around the concrete perimeter) for carpenter ants. He sprayed inside and outside in October and said he'd come back and spray again for free because he had done it so late in the year last year. I told him I didn't want him to spray inside the house again because of Tiger's condition and to be honest, I didn't want it either. The following morning after he sprayed last fall, I woke up and could barely move, every muscle hurt. I know it was the spray.
He sprayed at 2:00 (we weren't here) and when we got home around 6:00, we let Sneakers outside. I wasn't thinking straight! My concern is that she somehow walked in the sprayed area.
We were even wondering if the guy did spray because we couldn't see any residue from the spray and I knelt down to see if I could smell it (last time it had a pretty strong odour) but I couldn't smell anything. He did leave his card in the door so I know he was here but the thought did cross my mind that he might just say he sprayed but didn't to save himself some money. He wasn't overly thrilled when I called him last week and reminded him of his 'free offer'.
Anyway, I will monitor her and if she isn't any better by tomorrow, I guess I'll take her in to emergency. I'll take her tonight if I have to. I'm praying she'll be fine. In the meantime, does anyone know anything that I could give her that could help her feel better if she is being affected by the spray? I've washed her paws and we're not letting her outside for awhile.
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