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Ty follow-up
April 11, 2009 By Leave a Comment
A while back you may remember a post about Jane and her new blind kitten named Ty. Ty recently had eye surgery, and seems to be doing really well. What a handsome devil he turned out to be! Here he is, all healed up from his surgery.
Thanks, Jane, for letting us post his picture.
Moo dentist follow-up
April 7, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Thank goodness Miss Moo finished up the last of her antibiotics this morning. She was getting less and less enthusiastic about taking them. And she was getting more and more constipated. A few days ago she didn’t feel like eating, but still managed to barf up a bunch of unchewed food. Yum. It’s been a tough couple of days.
She went back to the dentist today for a follow-up. Dr. Côté said that her gums hadn’t healed up as much as she expected, but they looked OK. She gave Moo some fluids because she was a little dehydrated. She also suggested cleaning out Moo’s eye boogers with some saline solution like you’d use with contact lenses. Brilliant! I wish I had thought of that. It seems so obvious now. Dr. Côté wants to see Moo again next Monday, just to check her gums one more time. I’m hoping that will be it. I’m sure Moo has had enough after 4 trips to the vet in 4 weeks.
As soon as Moo got back home, she ate and then pooped. Finally! Now she’s resting much more comfortably on the back of the couch. I can hardly wait to curl up in bed and relax with her tonight. I expect to hear a big, Mooie sigh of relief.
Moo antibiotics
April 4, 2009 By Leave a Comment
After Moo’s tooth extractions, she started on liquid painkillers and antibiotics. We only gave her the painkillers for the first 2+ days, but she’s still taking the antibiotics. She definitely doesn’t like it, but she’s been a total trooper about it. Until last night.
We were about to head out for dinner and wanted to give Moo her medicine before leaving. I drew up a syringe-ful and Eve went to get Moo. Moo is on to us now. She was in the kitchen. When she heard Eve coming for her, she hunched down and tried to make herself heavy so Eve wouldn’t pick her up. I was already laughing. When Eve picked her up, she let out a defiant meow. She’s been pretty squirmy, so we’ve found that the best technique for us is to have Eve hold Moo up on her shoulder like a baby while I squirt the medicine down her throat. Well this time she decided she wasn’t having any. When I held her head she gritted her little teeth. Now I was really laughing. When I stick the syringe in the corner of her mouth to pop her mouth open, I shot some medicine in there. But Moo immediately shook her head around and clamped her teeth back together, flinging medicine all over herself. I didn’t quite empty the syringe, so I had to make a second attempt. She clenched her teeth again. This time the medicine when all over her face instead of in her mouth. Since I hardly managed to get any in her, I drew out a little bit more. Same problem. She was having none of it. Moo 3, Renee 0.
After these ridiculous attempts at getting some medicine in her, Moo stayed slung over Eve’s shoulder. She still had her mouth clenched shut and little bubbles of saliva pouring out of her lips because she refused to even lick her mouth or swallow. Little punky! I got a wet washcloth and wiped her up. It was time for the kitties to eat, so we thought her wet food would cheer her up. Nope. She was so mad at us, she wouldn’t even eat. She ended up holding off until we came home at 10:00pm.
I can hardly wait to try again this morning…