Posted on 07/09/2016 7:40:46 PM PDT by Yaelle
If you love pets and animals and sometimes pray for them, I'm asking if you could say a little prayer for our kitty Ciel. She is only five years old, a sweet, smart Balinese. She was perfectly healthy and active until two days ago, when she started vomiting foam and stopped eating.
Today we took her in to the vet and she has acute renal failure and diabetes. He gave her IV fluids, some meds to fight nausea etc, and a little insulin. We are to give her sub q fluids and try to get her to eat. He says that she can recover completely but she needs to eat and keep food down. He gives her a 60% chance of survival because she is young and it is acute.
We love her so. She is usually riding on my son's shoulders or fetching toys for us to throw. Or annoying her older "sister" cat. It's unbearable to see her like this.
Thanks in advance for your prayers.
Love!! It works wonders and it heals!!
I’m looking at my 8 year old best buddy now and would do anything for him.
If nothing is being eaten, keep trying diferent flavors or varieties, something that will get you cat to east.
Would a few more IVs help for the kidney issues?
If it gets very expensive, I’m down for throwing in some bucks.
Prayers out to your cat.
Our 11 year old Manx, Dunbar, had the same thing. We gave him chicken broth. It helped him live for another year. Prayers up.
Do you think that God is incapable of handling the workload?
It was for people like you that I started my post the way I did. That was your cue to leave the thread. Why did you even click on it in the first place? I am so grateful for the others who do love and pray for their pets. I never meant to bother you.
get a plastic syringe and squirt water and gravy down her throat to keep hydrated. And prayers of course
My sainted mother saved one of the cats once by cooking up some white meat turkey. What with the smell of the cooking and the hand feeding, the cat came back to life. Amazing.
A Siamese, too. Stubborn.
Boy, you were a lot kinder with your words to him than I was.
small amounts of Gerber chicken baby food
You know, you could have just moved on to another thread and not darkened this one. But that wouldn’t have scratched that itch, would it.
So sorry to hear about little Ciel. Am praying for her recovery, and as the vet said, since it is acute, she has a better chance.
Such innocence! Our little loved ones have no idea what it is all about, but she must feel your love as you tend her.
Please keep us posted. We care.
Thanks for that, Sarah. It’s like she got poisoned because it was so sudden, but we don’t know how. We don’t have chemicals where she could get to them. She chews toys (her own or the kids’) but I still don’t know what she chewed. She is indoor only. Thanks for the hope.
Usually vomitting and nausea requires a day of no food to let the system settle, then very bland food like chicken and rice or lamb and rice the next day. Very small amounts liquefied just to keep some nutrition getting and staying inside might be worth a try.
Ciel and her people are in my prayers.
My cat, who lived to be 21, almost died from kennel cough and would not eat at all...so I tried whipped cream, and that brought her back for another couple decades!
Because hes a piece of #### and should be kicked off the site.
I’ll pray double to replace his lack of praying for your cat.
We are using baby food chicken right now. But we mix it with water and squirt it with an old syringe into her mouth. She isn’t taking anything voluntarily. Also she is drooling. :(
Prayers up for a complete recovery!!!
Does the veterinarian think this may be a passing ailment or a long term problem?
I nursed a cat with kidney problems along for a couple years. It is easy, fortunately, to give subcutaneous fluids to a cat because it has loose skin. I used a heating pad to gently bring the bag of fluid to a cat body temperature (poor kitty, the one and only time I tried to use refrigerated fluid, she survived it but was one very shivery cat). I would talk to the cat and say “I know, a nuisance” when I poked. She was quite patient with me. Try to poke in different places each time so you are not poking through calloused skin which needs more force and is more painful to the cat.
Eventually her problem got so bad that it would have needed dialysis, not just fluids, and at that point out of pity for the cat I had her put out. But if this is a passing problem, like for a kidney infection, I think you may find the cat to endure it well and only lose a few of its proverbial lives in the process.
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