~ The Kitty Thread!! ~ Take 2!

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  • redrock
    redrock Posts: 18,341
    Which kitty is it?
  • Sian-of-the-dead
    Sian-of-the-dead Posts: 8,963
    redrock wrote:
    Which kitty is it?

    My little black baby, Sykes :(
    Been to this many PJ shows: Reading 2006 London 2007 Manchester & London 2009 Dublin, Belfast, London, Nijmegen & Berlin 2010 Manchester 1 & Manchester 2 2012...

    ... and I still think Drive-By Truckers are better.
  • Rygar
    Rygar Posts: 8,711
    Sian-of-the-dead wrote:
    redrock wrote:
    Which kitty is it?

    My little black baby, Sykes :(
    Don't worry Sian, he'll be fine!
  • redrock
    redrock Posts: 18,341
    Sian-of-the-dead wrote:
    redrock wrote:
    Which kitty is it?

    My little black baby, Sykes :(
    :(... but he looks like a tough boy. Then again... Jet looks like a tough boy but he's a big girl's blouse.
  • Sian-of-the-dead
    Sian-of-the-dead Posts: 8,963
    redrock wrote:
    Sian-of-the-dead wrote:
    redrock wrote:
    Which kitty is it?

    My little black baby, Sykes :(
    :(... but he looks like a tough boy. Then again... Jet looks like a tough boy but he's a big girl's blouse.

    Oh he's a right little bruiser... but he's also a Mummy's boy who loves attention :roll:

    He's a tough cookie, i'm just worried about him cuz he's one of my babies :oops:

    (thanks Rygar :thumbup: )
    Been to this many PJ shows: Reading 2006 London 2007 Manchester & London 2009 Dublin, Belfast, London, Nijmegen & Berlin 2010 Manchester 1 & Manchester 2 2012...

    ... and I still think Drive-By Truckers are better.
  • redrock
    redrock Posts: 18,341
    Sian-of-the-dead wrote:

    He's a tough cookie, i'm just worried about him cuz he's one of my babies :oops:

    They're all our little babies (even if one of mine is nearly 20... still my baby!)
  • Sian-of-the-dead
    Sian-of-the-dead Posts: 8,963
    Right, Sykes went to the vets and everything went well. She looked him over, looked in his mouth, took his temp and had a general poke around and found...

    absolutely bugger all wrong with him! :lol:

    She thinks he may have a sore throat or scratched it so he was given an anti-inflammatory and pain killing injection. We have to feed him wet food and slowly introduce his crunchies again when he's back to normal... However, if there's no improvement by Friday, he has to go in for a general aneasthetic, x-ray and in-depth dental investigation.

    He came home and wolfed down a full sachet of wet food... Looks like the drugs are working then :roll:

    Here's hoping we don't have to go back on Friday *crosses everything*
    Been to this many PJ shows: Reading 2006 London 2007 Manchester & London 2009 Dublin, Belfast, London, Nijmegen & Berlin 2010 Manchester 1 & Manchester 2 2012...

    ... and I still think Drive-By Truckers are better.
  • decides2dream
    decides2dream Posts: 14,977
    Sian-of-the-dead wrote:
    Right, Sykes went to the vets and everything went well. She looked him over, looked in his mouth, took his temp and had a general poke around and found...

    absolutely bugger all wrong with him! :lol:

    She thinks he may have a sore throat or scratched it so he was given an anti-inflammatory and pain killing injection. We have to feed him wet food and slowly introduce his crunchies again when he's back to normal... However, if there's no improvement by Friday, he has to go in for a general aneasthetic, x-ray and in-depth dental investigation.

    He came home and wolfed down a full sachet of wet food... Looks like the drugs are working then :roll:

    Here's hoping we don't have to go back on Friday *crosses everything*



    excellent news!
    :)



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  • 81
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    i don't know if anybody here has ever used Banfield the pet hospital, but it's my advice that you never use there service. they love to due test after test and bill for shit left and right.

    this pissed me off so bad that i ended putting a stop payment on a fairly hefty check.

    you have been warned...and if you need more proof than mine, do a search for them on yahoo local and see all the negative reviews.
    81 is now off the air

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  • redrock
    redrock Posts: 18,341
    Sian-of-the-dead wrote:
    Right, Sykes went to the vets and everything went well. She looked him over, looked in his mouth, took his temp and had a general poke around and found...

    absolutely bugger all wrong with him! :lol:

    She thinks he may have a sore throat or scratched it so he was given an anti-inflammatory and pain killing injection. We have to feed him wet food and slowly introduce his crunchies again when he's back to normal... However, if there's no improvement by Friday, he has to go in for a general aneasthetic, x-ray and in-depth dental investigation.

    He came home and wolfed down a full sachet of wet food... Looks like the drugs are working then :roll:

    Here's hoping we don't have to go back on Friday *crosses everything*

    I think Dookie spoke to him and told him how to fake it.... What it is, he really wants wet food and is fed up with crunchies!

    He will be fine by Friday.
  • Sian-of-the-dead
    Sian-of-the-dead Posts: 8,963
    We woke up this morning to laminate floor covered in sick and a cat that won't/can't eat :cry:
    Been to this many PJ shows: Reading 2006 London 2007 Manchester & London 2009 Dublin, Belfast, London, Nijmegen & Berlin 2010 Manchester 1 & Manchester 2 2012...

    ... and I still think Drive-By Truckers are better.
  • redrock
    redrock Posts: 18,341
    Sian-of-the-dead wrote:
    We woke up this morning to laminate floor covered in sick and a cat that won't/can't eat :cry:

    Oh no! Does he have a temperature? Not to be gross, but what was the sick like? Chunky? Watery? Brown/clear? Is he lethargic?

    Try to make sure he is drinking.
  • Sian-of-the-dead
    Sian-of-the-dead Posts: 8,963
    redrock wrote:
    Sian-of-the-dead wrote:
    We woke up this morning to laminate floor covered in sick and a cat that won't/can't eat :cry:

    Oh no! Does he have a temperature? Not to be gross, but what was the sick like? Chunky? Watery? Brown/clear? Is he lethargic?

    Try to make sure he is drinking.

    He is... lots.

    Apparently the sick was his wet food and water... which suggests it hadn't been digested. He didn't have a temperature when he went to the vets last night but his ears were hot this morning.
    Been to this many PJ shows: Reading 2006 London 2007 Manchester & London 2009 Dublin, Belfast, London, Nijmegen & Berlin 2010 Manchester 1 & Manchester 2 2012...

    ... and I still think Drive-By Truckers are better.
  • redrock
    redrock Posts: 18,341
    Same conversation in two different places is getting confusing! See how he is when you get home from work later and tomorrow morning. xxxx
  • Sian-of-the-dead
    Sian-of-the-dead Posts: 8,963
    redrock wrote:
    Same conversation in two different places is getting confusing! See how he is when you get home from work later and tomorrow morning. xxxx

    LOL I was just thinking that!

    Thanks for all your support :) xxx
    Been to this many PJ shows: Reading 2006 London 2007 Manchester & London 2009 Dublin, Belfast, London, Nijmegen & Berlin 2010 Manchester 1 & Manchester 2 2012...

    ... and I still think Drive-By Truckers are better.
  • decides2dream
    decides2dream Posts: 14,977
    Sian-of-the-dead wrote:
    We woke up this morning to laminate floor covered in sick and a cat that won't/can't eat :cry:


    oh no!
    :(

    hope he'll be ok!
    Stay with me...
    Let's just breathe...


    I am myself like you somehow


  • redrock
    redrock Posts: 18,341
    How's Sykes?
  • Sian-of-the-dead
    Sian-of-the-dead Posts: 8,963
    He's currently in surgery.

    The vet said there was something of some concern in his abdomen, a build up of gas and thickened lining are showing up on the x-ray but no actual foreign bodies. They're going to have a look and see if they can get to the bottom of it... I just really hope they don't find a tumour or something... Is it weird that I'm actually hoping for a foreign object? :cry:

    One thing that was funny though, the vet has obviously completely fallen in love with him (she's a real kitty lover) She said he was so smoochy with his pre-med that she and a nurse were literally cooing over him as he rolled about, grabbed their hands, pulled for fusses and purred ike a tractor... he's smoochy at the best of times but it sounds like the drugs just turned him into a fuss-whore :roll: :lol:
    Been to this many PJ shows: Reading 2006 London 2007 Manchester & London 2009 Dublin, Belfast, London, Nijmegen & Berlin 2010 Manchester 1 & Manchester 2 2012...

    ... and I still think Drive-By Truckers are better.
  • redrock
    redrock Posts: 18,341
    What a tart! :lol:

    In a human a thickening of the lining of the stomach can be soooooo many different things. Not sure about kitties. Sykes doesn't seem in pain or distressed (except maybe hungry) - a good sign?

    When are they going for their 'look see'?
  • Sian-of-the-dead
    Sian-of-the-dead Posts: 8,963
    redrock wrote:
    What a tart! :lol:

    In a human a thickening of the lining of the stomach can be soooooo many different things. Not sure about kitties. Sykes doesn't seem in pain or distressed (except maybe hungry) - a good sign?

    When are they going for their 'look see'?

    They've done it.

    There was nothing foreign in there and no tumours. Thank god.

    However, one of his lymph nodes was rather swollen so they've taken a biopsy to make sure it's ok. They're testing him for leukemia but she said it's unlikely as more of his nodes would be swollen; it's a case of ruling things out really.
    The vet (who has been absolutely brilliant, I might add) has said that he may have swollowed something, it's taken a few days of discomfort to pass it through and now it's gone (he had a poo last night for the first time since Monday night). As a result the lymph node has swollen and is in the process of getting smaller. Another possibilty is a digestive virus that's made him feel under the weather and swollen his node... both are possible and if it's either he should improve.
    He's being sent home with gastric medication to ease any digestive discomfort and to stop him vomiting. This is purely precautionary.
    We should get the results from his biopsy on Friday next week.

    I'm hoping to pick him up this afternoon, but depending on how he comes round from the aneasthetic, it may be tomorrow morning.
    Been to this many PJ shows: Reading 2006 London 2007 Manchester & London 2009 Dublin, Belfast, London, Nijmegen & Berlin 2010 Manchester 1 & Manchester 2 2012...

    ... and I still think Drive-By Truckers are better.

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