I rescued several cats from Chicago's Animal Care & Control Friday afternoon along with another shelter. One of them who is in my foster care was fine at first- in fact here she is on you tube as I planned to post her on craigslist to encourage people to come to see her at the Petsmart and to submit applications .
I called her Abby. She is about 10 or 11 months old and seemed to be in perfect health and well socialized as you could see from the video.
She did not touch her food at all though, and when I came in to look at her a bit later, she was still not eating. By the next day, she was still not eating and I switched her food. I had other kittens/cats to take to the Petsmart/Banfield for testing etc. so I left, thinking I would see how she was when I got back.
When I got home, she was clicking her tongue, drooling a bit, and swallowing a lot and I thought maybe she ate a string or got a toy feather stuck in her throat or some bizarre thing. I put laxatone on her paw, which she acted like she was going to lick but did NOT touch. My shelter said take her to the vet first thing Monday (the vet is closed early on Sat and all Sun). But by Sat evening I could not deal with watching her suffer and I took her to the emergency vet at a cost of $550.
For that I learned that her blood work was fine, her x-rays were inconclusive, and they gave her an anti-nausea shot that did absolutely nothing for her.
I was given the option of leaving her there overnight for another $1,200 where they would continue to give her fluids, observe her, and do another set of xrays. I declined b/c they gave no indication it would end up with a diagnosis and frankly it seemed like an excessive amount of money with no promises. It would have made a difference to me if they could have offered any insight or just anything, but these people seemed inexperienced at best.
To make a long story short, it is 24 hours later and she is still salivating like crazy. My vet did call early this morning in response to my message on their machine, and told me to try giving her 2.5 mg pepsid every 6 hours. It has not helped at all.
If anyone has thoughts as to how to make her comfortable until I can get her to my regular vet tomorrow morning, I'd appreciate it.
I called her Abby. She is about 10 or 11 months old and seemed to be in perfect health and well socialized as you could see from the video.
She did not touch her food at all though, and when I came in to look at her a bit later, she was still not eating. By the next day, she was still not eating and I switched her food. I had other kittens/cats to take to the Petsmart/Banfield for testing etc. so I left, thinking I would see how she was when I got back.
When I got home, she was clicking her tongue, drooling a bit, and swallowing a lot and I thought maybe she ate a string or got a toy feather stuck in her throat or some bizarre thing. I put laxatone on her paw, which she acted like she was going to lick but did NOT touch. My shelter said take her to the vet first thing Monday (the vet is closed early on Sat and all Sun). But by Sat evening I could not deal with watching her suffer and I took her to the emergency vet at a cost of $550.
For that I learned that her blood work was fine, her x-rays were inconclusive, and they gave her an anti-nausea shot that did absolutely nothing for her.
I was given the option of leaving her there overnight for another $1,200 where they would continue to give her fluids, observe her, and do another set of xrays. I declined b/c they gave no indication it would end up with a diagnosis and frankly it seemed like an excessive amount of money with no promises. It would have made a difference to me if they could have offered any insight or just anything, but these people seemed inexperienced at best.
To make a long story short, it is 24 hours later and she is still salivating like crazy. My vet did call early this morning in response to my message on their machine, and told me to try giving her 2.5 mg pepsid every 6 hours. It has not helped at all.
If anyone has thoughts as to how to make her comfortable until I can get her to my regular vet tomorrow morning, I'd appreciate it.