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HI Everybody
I found this site 3 weeks ago and got great advice from a lot of people. So I thought I would stop in here. and see what extra help I can get
now. a month ago. I had to check in on my Mother in law cat Ziggy. he is a 12-year-old dsh. and was basically taking care of HER. that right the Cat was making sure she was getting up and doing something. MIL has severe demtia. and roughly 6 weeks ago broke a hip and was hospitalized. My wife and I were going over every 2 days to do litter and give him wet food. 3 weeks ago on a visit, he was having trouble breathing. and collapsed. we rushed him to the vet. when there we were informed his lips had gone blue. and was on oxygen. they did X-rays and blue tests and came back with an enlarged esophagus. and did we notice anything? well, we couldn't. so he was put on steroids to help him breathe and put on a slurry for an older cat. no hard food. being the dumb ass I am. I dove into anything I could read on the subject.
now since we took him. we had to introduce him to our cat Butters( which was a rescue from an abuser male) and Butters is 8. ( also come a very long way but sometimes still skittish) we got that covered now.. both are almost glued together.
the problem I got now and I can't figure it out. If Ziggy need the slurry?, and Butters won't touch it. which is good. Butters needs a hard dental kernal food. that Ziggy should not have. Right now, Butters will eat ,IF we trap Ziggy in her room. Ziggy for the past 5 years was always eating the hard kernal food as his main diet. but Ziggy has not eaten much in the Past 2 days. ( has has barely finished off 1 small 85 gram can. should I be worried or is this just a Cat thing?
I found this site 3 weeks ago and got great advice from a lot of people. So I thought I would stop in here. and see what extra help I can get
now. a month ago. I had to check in on my Mother in law cat Ziggy. he is a 12-year-old dsh. and was basically taking care of HER. that right the Cat was making sure she was getting up and doing something. MIL has severe demtia. and roughly 6 weeks ago broke a hip and was hospitalized. My wife and I were going over every 2 days to do litter and give him wet food. 3 weeks ago on a visit, he was having trouble breathing. and collapsed. we rushed him to the vet. when there we were informed his lips had gone blue. and was on oxygen. they did X-rays and blue tests and came back with an enlarged esophagus. and did we notice anything? well, we couldn't. so he was put on steroids to help him breathe and put on a slurry for an older cat. no hard food. being the dumb ass I am. I dove into anything I could read on the subject.
now since we took him. we had to introduce him to our cat Butters( which was a rescue from an abuser male) and Butters is 8. ( also come a very long way but sometimes still skittish) we got that covered now.. both are almost glued together.
the problem I got now and I can't figure it out. If Ziggy need the slurry?, and Butters won't touch it. which is good. Butters needs a hard dental kernal food. that Ziggy should not have. Right now, Butters will eat ,IF we trap Ziggy in her room. Ziggy for the past 5 years was always eating the hard kernal food as his main diet. but Ziggy has not eaten much in the Past 2 days. ( has has barely finished off 1 small 85 gram can. should I be worried or is this just a Cat thing?
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