The past two weeks have been very stressful for me. My baby, Troy, has (once again) been throwing up with every meal. The doctor had wanted to do an ultrasound back when this first started happening, but I switched Troy's diet and things were good for a while. When the puking started again (poor Troy didn't even get the bonus side effect of losing any weight), I finally relented. The GREAT news is there's nothing seriously wrong with my little critter (I cried like a baby when they told me -- how do people have children????). Not unlike all of the men in his family, he just has irritable bowel syndrome (!) ... The bad news is it was another $500 to still have no solution to his chronic vomiting, but I'm so relieved to know that he's "just old" (he turns 13 next month) that I figure I can deal with an occasional puke-covered duvet for a few more years ... he is my baby, after all. (His shaved belly is sooooooooooooooo cute!!!!)Friday, January 19, 2007
I'm Not Cut Out for Parenthood
The past two weeks have been very stressful for me. My baby, Troy, has (once again) been throwing up with every meal. The doctor had wanted to do an ultrasound back when this first started happening, but I switched Troy's diet and things were good for a while. When the puking started again (poor Troy didn't even get the bonus side effect of losing any weight), I finally relented. The GREAT news is there's nothing seriously wrong with my little critter (I cried like a baby when they told me -- how do people have children????). Not unlike all of the men in his family, he just has irritable bowel syndrome (!) ... The bad news is it was another $500 to still have no solution to his chronic vomiting, but I'm so relieved to know that he's "just old" (he turns 13 next month) that I figure I can deal with an occasional puke-covered duvet for a few more years ... he is my baby, after all. (His shaved belly is sooooooooooooooo cute!!!!)
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making us spend bundles of money at the vet is their way of making us prove our love. it's only money, right?
best wishes for speedy hair regrowth and more years of cuddling.
Aaaw, I'm so glad The Troy Boy is ok! I'm so jealous he can't keep food down!
My Spot (God rest her soul)got IBS around twelve. I ended up having to give her the steroid prednisone (one tablet once a day). The vomiting was reduced to once or twice a month and her weight went back up. It took care of the problem for many years... She was fine until age 15 or so.
this is one of the reasons I can't get another animal..for me it's worse than losing a person...well most people in my life....they become so close to you and it's unconditional love..ain't going to get that from a man nowadays!...Happy your guy is doing well!!
Older male cats often get impacted bowels, which make them want to throw up their stomachs.
This happened to my old man, and one thing that helped was feeding him a tablespoon of canned pumpkin.
It has huge tons of fiber -- and cats generally love it!
IMPORTANT: Look for plain canned cooked pumpkin, NOT pumpkin pie filling which has tons of sugar.
http://www.verybestbaking.com/libbys/
Good luck to you!
Lovely Troy.Maybe I will steal him one day.I am serious.
I totally understand the parent angle. We recently had to spend $500.00+ because our Molly somehow got a hernia that had to be fixed and on top of it she has been getting into fights with the other children in the neighborhood. She's gotten one scratch to the face and one bite on the other cheek (two differnt fights). The Vet says she is actually the bully. Anyway, you got to love 'em!
My vet told me something that I had no idea - don't serve older cats hairball formula cat fud. It's too rough on their system.
Unfortunately it wasn't my cats only issue and she was 14.
I bet you're a good dad to Troy!
I'm glad Troy is OK! If it's any consolation, my cat is 11 and she throws up a couple times a week after she eats. (I feed her hairball formula, so I'm intrigued by what Blobby wrote here...) Anyway, I think it just goes with the territory when you have an older cat.
Glad to hear he's ok!!!
We're going through something similar with Tucker (~3yrs old) again...happened a few months ago. Vet has him on anti nausea meds and Purina EN - a real mild, Tender Vittles like food. Thing is - he wasn't throwing up his food - just little tiny puddles of clear spit.
AND he's porked out big time because the vet suggested we transfer all three cats off the higher end, richer foods to the low-level Purina brand stuff to see if that'd help with Simon's diarhea issues. Nope. But the new food caused Tucker to get chubby.
Tucker's got to go in for really bad gingivitis.
The vet's special ordering us some anti-IBS meds for Simon since all the low-cost methods and dietary adjustment ideas didn't work.
How are we supposed to keep these loveable little critters when they suddenly get these non-stop medical issues!
You have my sympathy!
BTW - Has anyone's VET recommended for/against the pumpkin treatment? I've seen it suggested online, but our vet said it really doesn't make that much of a difference - it's just more fiber.
Love the blog!
thanks to everyone for all of the support and advice.
i even went and got some canned pumpkin -- but (of course) troy wouldn't even try one little lick of it!!! i wiped some on his hand to see if he would lick it off and he just kept flicking his paw until it was off!
on the upside, he hasn't thrown up in a number of days (not even sure why) ...
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