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My thread on Merlin and pneumonia in the cat health forum is here. I will continue updates here on what is going on. I am doing a necropsy on him at Cornell and will be making complaints most likely against both hospitals and at least one dvm after that. I will also update on any health aspects of what happened to him. And discuss the terrible trauma I am going through losing him in these circumstances. Please see the thread linked here for more information if you are interested. I am very sorry for all of your losses. It is so very painful to lose our fur babies no matter the circumstances.
After staying up all night writing a report of my own to include with paper work for the necropsy etc., getting him ready and getting the cooler full of fresh ice packs etc. at the door for pick up by ups overnight air, (which took 6 hours to arrange by phone calling Fed Ex and UPS who have the absolute worst customer service on the planet/) I arranged a pick up but the time scheduled was not good so I had to call and make it for 12-3 pm. When I scheduled it I assumed they would come in the am, not between 9-7pm. If you are ever trying to call them, it is nearly impossible to get a person and when you do most of them have no clue what they are doing! lol. But to try to get to a person just swear and speak gibberish to the computer and it may transfer you to a person, also keep pressing 0 and say complaint if they ask you what your reason it, that worked once. Finally at 3 pm they came and picked him up when they dropped of another package. Cornell said they would email me when he arrives there.
I hope I get some answers as to what really caused his death and if he even did have pneumonia. And on the effects of telazol a sedation he was given, which should never had happened, on whatever was going on with him. I felt so heart broken and sad to see that cooler there and remember how he first showed up there. I saw his beautiful face out the window, I think it was before we had the path and door redone when he first showed up. I have some wonderful photos of him there and on the new path when he started to tame up.
I want to warn everyone, never to allow dvm to sedate your tame cat who is ill for any reason unless it is a true emergency and they need surgery or something like that. And never with telazol which is dangerous in cats with any heart/pulmonary and kidney issues. One of our members here says it is never safe in cats since they cannot treat them if they go into respiratory failure from it by placing an airway. I read of two cats who had bad immediate reactions who needed naloxone and another anti diazepam type drug to come out of it.
The pain I am going through in Merlin's death is 50 mil x worse than if there were no circumstances like this of negligence and also abuse of me on part of dvm and the suddenness of it all, compounded by the nastiness of some people I interacted with at the hospital after he died. I think one of the things I hate most about all of this is having to deal with these awful people. I have gone through it before, but this time feels so much worse for many reasons. It's like a final ‘get lost’ from the people who should care about our furry loves but who are more interested in making as much money as they can and then blaming you, and from the world in general.
I think one of the things I always think of with my cats who came from outside or who were older when I adopted them is I wish I could have seen them as kittens and also that I could know their full story. I still think of Marlon, Merlin's twin brother who I did not realize was there at first and who vanished before I even got a chance to tnr him. I hope someone else gave him a chance and took him in. Otherwise maybe they are together again now. I wonder who dumped these two beautiful, sweet, ginger cats to fend for themselves![Sad but relieved face :disappointed_relieved: 😥](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/joypixels/emoji-assets@5.0/png/64/1f625.png)
I will write more later and ad some pics.
After staying up all night writing a report of my own to include with paper work for the necropsy etc., getting him ready and getting the cooler full of fresh ice packs etc. at the door for pick up by ups overnight air, (which took 6 hours to arrange by phone calling Fed Ex and UPS who have the absolute worst customer service on the planet/) I arranged a pick up but the time scheduled was not good so I had to call and make it for 12-3 pm. When I scheduled it I assumed they would come in the am, not between 9-7pm. If you are ever trying to call them, it is nearly impossible to get a person and when you do most of them have no clue what they are doing! lol. But to try to get to a person just swear and speak gibberish to the computer and it may transfer you to a person, also keep pressing 0 and say complaint if they ask you what your reason it, that worked once. Finally at 3 pm they came and picked him up when they dropped of another package. Cornell said they would email me when he arrives there.
I hope I get some answers as to what really caused his death and if he even did have pneumonia. And on the effects of telazol a sedation he was given, which should never had happened, on whatever was going on with him. I felt so heart broken and sad to see that cooler there and remember how he first showed up there. I saw his beautiful face out the window, I think it was before we had the path and door redone when he first showed up. I have some wonderful photos of him there and on the new path when he started to tame up.
I want to warn everyone, never to allow dvm to sedate your tame cat who is ill for any reason unless it is a true emergency and they need surgery or something like that. And never with telazol which is dangerous in cats with any heart/pulmonary and kidney issues. One of our members here says it is never safe in cats since they cannot treat them if they go into respiratory failure from it by placing an airway. I read of two cats who had bad immediate reactions who needed naloxone and another anti diazepam type drug to come out of it.
The pain I am going through in Merlin's death is 50 mil x worse than if there were no circumstances like this of negligence and also abuse of me on part of dvm and the suddenness of it all, compounded by the nastiness of some people I interacted with at the hospital after he died. I think one of the things I hate most about all of this is having to deal with these awful people. I have gone through it before, but this time feels so much worse for many reasons. It's like a final ‘get lost’ from the people who should care about our furry loves but who are more interested in making as much money as they can and then blaming you, and from the world in general.
I think one of the things I always think of with my cats who came from outside or who were older when I adopted them is I wish I could have seen them as kittens and also that I could know their full story. I still think of Marlon, Merlin's twin brother who I did not realize was there at first and who vanished before I even got a chance to tnr him. I hope someone else gave him a chance and took him in. Otherwise maybe they are together again now. I wonder who dumped these two beautiful, sweet, ginger cats to fend for themselves
![Sad but relieved face :disappointed_relieved: 😥](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/joypixels/emoji-assets@5.0/png/64/1f625.png)
I will write more later and ad some pics.
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