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Hey everyone,
Our 13 year old cat has kidney disease, so we've put her on a low protein diet and have to give her subcutaneous fluids every other day. We went to the vet, they showed us how to give said fluids, and took her home. The first two weeks were great--she settled in and let us do it and would only squirm towards the end (we have to give her 100 ML).
Then one day things changed quite drastically. She just won't sit still for us to give it to her and fights us. We even went back to the vet to make sure it wasn't something we were doing wrong. The vet assured us that we were doing it right, and that we should maybe try a smaller needle. We tried that to no avail.
We have tried:
- As I mentioned, a smaller needle.
- Warming the bag so the fluids aren't cold.
- Trying to do the fluid process when she's chill, purring, and half asleep on my lap.
- Making sure we insert the needle into a different part than we did two days before.
- Put her in a purrito, which she VIOLENTLY fights until the bitter end, and knocks the needs out.
So here we are to the point where we don't know what to do because we haven't been able to distribute the full 100 ML for the past week.
Thanks for reading.
Our 13 year old cat has kidney disease, so we've put her on a low protein diet and have to give her subcutaneous fluids every other day. We went to the vet, they showed us how to give said fluids, and took her home. The first two weeks were great--she settled in and let us do it and would only squirm towards the end (we have to give her 100 ML).
Then one day things changed quite drastically. She just won't sit still for us to give it to her and fights us. We even went back to the vet to make sure it wasn't something we were doing wrong. The vet assured us that we were doing it right, and that we should maybe try a smaller needle. We tried that to no avail.
We have tried:
- As I mentioned, a smaller needle.
- Warming the bag so the fluids aren't cold.
- Trying to do the fluid process when she's chill, purring, and half asleep on my lap.
- Making sure we insert the needle into a different part than we did two days before.
- Put her in a purrito, which she VIOLENTLY fights until the bitter end, and knocks the needs out.
So here we are to the point where we don't know what to do because we haven't been able to distribute the full 100 ML for the past week.
Thanks for reading.