Crazy animal lady thread - sperg about your pets here

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IMG_0120.webp Adopted this guy going on three weeks ago. A friend of mine rescued him and his siblings at a few days old and hand reared them. Seriously the coolest cat I've ever owned.
 
We said goodbye to our beautiful boy last week. After almost 11 years together I miss him tremendously, but I’m so thankful that he lived the full length of his life and went to sleep peacefully and surrounded by love. My vet is wonderful and came to our home so he could go to sleep comfortably in his favourite bed. We got his diagnosis back in February, and crammed in a great 5 months of walking adventures, cheeseburgers, and cuddles. My sweet girl dog is still here, so we’re just gonna keep the spoiling going, because she’s not getting any younger either and every day is precious.

The vet surgery sent us beautiful flowers and a card, which was unexpected and lovely. They loved him too. He was such a good boy.

This was the day we met. I found him on the side of the road.
(I took him to the shelter, but nobody claimed him so I went back and adopted him officially.)
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We had good times and I will love him forever.

*Edit - I was just starting to keep it together when the cremation people called to say he’s coming home today, and I had to clear a place next to the other urns :heart-empty:
 
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Just A Rat said:
We said goodbye to our beautiful boy last week. After almost 11 years together I miss him tremendously, but I’m so thankful that he lived the full length of his life and went to sleep peacefully and surrounded by love. My vet is wonderful and came to our home so he could go to sleep comfortably in his favourite bed. We got his diagnosis back in February, and crammed in a great 5 months of walking adventures, cheeseburgers, and cuddles. My sweet girl dog is still here, so we’re just gonna keep the spoiling going, because she’s not getting any younger either and every day is precious.

The vet surgery sent us beautiful flowers and a card, which was unexpected and lovely. They loved him too. He was such a good boy.

This was the day we met. I found him on the side of the road.
(I took him to the shelter, but nobody claimed him so I went back and adopted him officially.)
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We had good times and I will love him forever.

*Edit - I was just starting to keep it together when the cremation people called to say he’s coming home today, and I had to clear a place next to the other urns :heart-empty:
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I am so sorry, I hope you’re holding up ok 🩷
 
Just A Rat said:
We said goodbye to our beautiful boy last week. After almost 11 years together I miss him tremendously, but I’m so thankful that he lived the full length of his life and went to sleep peacefully and surrounded by love. My vet is wonderful and came to our home so he could go to sleep comfortably in his favourite bed. We got his diagnosis back in February, and crammed in a great 5 months of walking adventures, cheeseburgers, and cuddles. My sweet girl dog is still here, so we’re just gonna keep the spoiling going, because she’s not getting any younger either and every day is precious.

The vet surgery sent us beautiful flowers and a card, which was unexpected and lovely. They loved him too. He was such a good boy.

This was the day we met. I found him on the side of the road.
(I took him to the shelter, but nobody claimed him so I went back and adopted him officially.)
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We had good times and I will love him forever.

*Edit - I was just starting to keep it together when the cremation people called to say he’s coming home today, and I had to clear a place next to the other urns :heart-empty:
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That is one hell of a lucky dog, you did good OP. You guys had a great relationship.

P.S. it's said in Feng Shui / Taoism that it is good luck to adopt and keep a stray dog. You did good OP.
 
The void has discovered cat nip, she just rolled around like a fat blob of black. And slept in her bed in the bean bag a lot (i sprayed a blanket lightly for her). Then the dog got in on the action, turns out dogs can like catnip.

So now i have both of them rolling around on it and having a chilled out ball.
 
Gentamicin said:
I’ve got a cat that chews on everything. Cardboard, plastic, cables. My hair, sometimes in the night. Any recommendations for toys he can safely chew? I got him a wooden lollipop toy from PetSmart but that was gone in a day.
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I've heard of cat owners using the Kong dog toys. The red one meant to filled with peanut butter, Keep away from anything with feathers or strings on them. Even short ones.

So I posted a couple weeks ago about losing my Boo. It turned out he just had a nasty upper respiratory infection. He's prone to them, poor little guy. A week of antibiotics and he was back to his normal self. I feel like a bit of the boy who cried wolf now, but for now I feel very very blessed.

My sympathies to my fellow kiwis who have lost pets recently, it truly does suck and I'm so very sorry for your loss.
 
Just A Rat said:
Oh that is fantastic news!!! I am so happy to hear it! Please love that guy up a little extra from me.
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He's getting so much love right now. We're both just so happy.

It's funny, we made the decision to take him in to be put to sleep last week, he was turning up his nose at everything, even treats. But I was waiting until the next day to do it, hoping he'd get better. The afternoon we had decided to say goodbye, he came out of hiding, ate his bodyweight in food, went to the litter box, and jumped on the bed and demanded cuddles. So we decided to wait and see, and a week and a half later he's up to his old tricks again. Even the vet was shocked.
 
I'm going to spill my spaghetti all over the place, fair warning.

Yesterday really sucked. We were supposed to be adopting a cat my friend was fostering. I spent the whole week getting his temporary room ready for him and I was so excited. My friend and the lady from the shelter came over yesterday and my friend just couldn't do it. She didn't realize how attached to him she was. I was, and am, kinda mad because we've been talking about this for a year now and we knew for certain a week ago. The shelter lady had given her plenty of offers to let her adopt him permanently. But no. At the same time I completely understand, it would be like asking me to give up my Boo. Impossible. So I said never mind, and I hope she's happy. If she wasn't my friend I would not have let her go back on her word like that, but she is and I couldn't do that to her.

Then yesterday afternoon I noticed Boo wasn't getting off the bed to eat like he normally does, then I noticed his breathing was getting worse. Well, I knew he was on borrowed time anyway, so I made the final decision to take him in today. He still has enough life in him to fight the vet, so I already had a 100 mgs of gabapentin for this. But it takes two of us to give him any medicine, and my husband was on his way home and wouldn't be back until late.

One of his favorite things has always been rubbing his head on my brush. Once I realized he would no longer be getting on the dresser again I bought him a little one just like mine for the shelf above my bed and he was thrilled. I got a sweet 40 second video of him rubbing his head and purring.

Today he came for a cuddle, we spent a few minutes staring at each other and me talking softly to him. Then he got some more brush time. One last goodbye.

I'm grateful for the last two weeks I had with him. I got to say goodbye, he was as healthy as a cat in his condition could be, he got to play with his toys, and lots of cuddles. Now I'm at peace and soon he will be too. He's had a lot of health struggles in his life, I think he'll be glad to rest. I'll be giving him his last medication in about an hour.

And saying goodbye means saying hello to someone new. There's a very sweet cat we've been feeding. I'm not sure if she's a stray or belongs to the neighbor, but she's not fixed. She had a second litter a few weeks ago. I don't know where but the kittens, if they survived, will be wild which suggests to me that she's a stray who just hangs out next door. In a few more weeks in case she's nursing, I'm going to scoop her up, get her fixed and keep her inside until the stitches can come out. Hopefully, if the neighbors don't come looking for her, I can make the case to my husband that she just stays inside. I think he'll go for it, but he always has to think about things. If not her, the cat distribution system will eventually provide before too long. It always has, and trying to force it obviously didn't work out.

I'm sorry for the spaghetti. Thanks for listening anyway.
 
Accept Only Substitutes said:
Today he came for a cuddle, we spent a few minutes staring at each other and me talking softly to him. Then he got some more brush time. One last goodbye.
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I am so sorry for your loss and the double whammy. What a heartbreaking week.

My cat who I was worried about the other week is thankfully fine. She decided to eat directly after I messaged my boss absolutely in bits saying I'd need to take the first vet appointment possible and might be useless at work.

She is getting hrder and harder to feed, we currently have 8 different varieties of wet food and which she'll eat varies even over the course of the day.
 
glioblastoma multiforme said:
She is getting hrder and harder to feed, we currently have 8 different varieties of wet food and which she'll eat varies even over the course of the day.
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I had a cat who did that a few years ago. Trying to figure out what to feed her and when was..."Fun" and she demanded food every two hours or so.

I'm still glad she's doing well though. They're such brats at times, but they also bring us so much joy it all evens out.
 
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They're such brats at times, but they also bring us so much joy it all evens out.
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She's always had incredible timing for worrying us. She's upset with me tonight because I tried to furminate her where her coat is matted because her arthritis makes it hard to clean. Luckily she's very forgiving to me, hopefully deep down she knows I just want to make her comfortable.
 
glioblastoma multiforme said:
She's always had incredible timing for worrying us. She's upset with me tonight because I tried to furminate her where her coat is matted because her arthritis makes it hard to clean. Luckily she's very forgiving to me, hopefully deep down she knows I just want to make her comfortable.
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Boo didn't like that either, he loved to rub his face on a brush but nothing else! He was sweet, but hated being told what to do.

Have you tried solensia for her arthritis? It's about $60/month for an injection at the vet, but it really helped Boo with his arthritis. Sadly, one of the side effects is itchy skin and he was scratching himself to the point of skin damage so we had to stop it. Apparently there's no way to stop the itching either according to a study I read, it's fairly new so not a lot of research on it yet.
 
Accept Only Substitutes said:
Have you tried solensia for her arthritis?
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She is on Solensia, its great. At the start it was like she was a young cat again., but now she's declining even on it. You can see she has pain around her back legs just watching her try to make a small jump.

We have loxicam/metacam too to use if its really bad. TBH next time we take her to the vet,, i'm going to ask whether its worth adding that daily. The vet is also a palaver, its hard to get her to even take the gabapentin dripped over her all time favourite food to make it less stressful for her

Its very difficult getting the balance right for her care now, because she hates it all. The vet is exceptionally stressful for her and she has to go every 4 months to keep the solensia script. We were lucky that she would take loxicam on food.
 
My baby cat (the one referred to i the post above and every other one concerned about an elderly cat) was due in to the vets tomorrow anyway for a meds checkup, we'd asked to get bloods done too cos we were so worried about how little she's eating.

She's gone majorly down hill over this evening, in a really undignified way. She's obviously in pain and trailing poo everywhere. She can't lie down, she tried and just fell on her side, she needs her front half propped up on something.

I've put some loxicam on her food in case she does eat, to help with any pain she's in.

So worried she's not going to come home tomorrow, but in the first time since she started declining due to her age 4 years ago, its the first time she hasn't been her happy little self. If this isn't going to pass, its no quality of life. Seeing her so distressed is awful.

ETA: not goodbye but start of end of life care. she's had a few injections to make her more comfortable and they've improved her but from now we just have to keep an eye on her and make the call when there is no qality of life left.
 
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I love hanging out with my chickens. Most are pretty skittish and will just barely tolerate me or curiously hover around while I'm with them. One is friendly and is basically a cat that will jump on my lap for attention. I managed to get a video of her purring (yep, they purr/trill too) while getting neck rubs, and I think I'll play that back whenever I want something to make me feel better.
 
glioblastoma multiforme said:
not goodbye but start of end of life care. she's had a few injections to make her more comfortable and they've improved her but from now we just have to keep an eye on her and make the call when there is no qality of life left.
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Man, I'm sorry. That sucks, but I know she's getting the best care possible and lots of love. My heart goes out to you fren. :feels:

The sweet little mama cat running around between my house and the neigh has stopped nursing. I know she stays next door, but I don't think they're feeding her, because she always comes here when she's hungry. In any case she's had two litters now and her first kitten is wild. I haven't seen the second litter yet.

So, if they aren't going to take care of her I will. Now that she's done nursing I'm going to be bringing her inside on Monday. She'll be separated from my cats until I can get her to the vet for tests and shots, and assuming all is well then we'll start introducing them. She has an appointment for being spayed on the 28th of next month, so if all else fails, we'll keep them separate until after her stitches are out after surgery. I really hope she gets a clean bill of health, because I've wanted to make her mine since she showed up early this year. Cross your fingers frens!
 
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