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hello all, I’m about at my wit’s end with my almost 4 year old neutered male cat. He was caught feral when he was about 2-5 months old and my husband and I raised him from then on.
Onto the troubles. When he was a kitten, he ate fine and showed no issues of Pica. It was actually when we brought our resident cat back (she had been staying at my mom’s in the duration and has since passed this year) when he was around 6 months that it began. At about a year old, he ate a rubber duck he found which required surgery. The next year he ate a plush that belonged to my deceased father that was sitting on a shelf. He is relentless getting objects to eat if he sees them. Thankfully we managed to induce vomiting for that one, but he ended up really ill and vomiting blood which took two weeks and hundreds of dollars to fix.
Since it is so financially straining for this habit, we have true to remove any objects he would get into. And he’s confined to his own room when we are not home or at night when he cannot be supervised. He will even go as far as eating the corners of pillows if he’s ambitious enough.
Well the day after Christmas, my husband and I accidentally let our guard down and Cheesecurd got ahold of one of our kitten’s toys. He ate all legs and pompous off except one (picture attached). So of course, we went to the emergency vet to be unsuccessful at vomiting and take x-rays. They decided to see if he could pass them. Fast forward two days and still no sign of them, so back to my vet he went. They kept him for the day and tried barium but it moved through with no issues. So we think they might have passed without me noticing despite checking every two hours those first few days. So almost $1,200 later, there’s no change. Obviously we can’t constantly do this.
Has anyone dealt with this? He has had a full blood and urine analysis done with no health issues. He currently gets 1 cup of Purina One Indoor and a quarter of a can of Friskies per day. So food is readily available.
In regards to boredom, we have tried all types of methods to entertain him while in the room like plastic balls and toys that cannot be consumed but he has no interest. He does love playing with our almost 4 month kitten.
But we are at a loss of how to move forward with this. Because as it happened this week, it just takes one accident of a toy getting left out that we end up several thousand in debt with surgeries. Needless to say, my husband is less than thrilled.
Onto the troubles. When he was a kitten, he ate fine and showed no issues of Pica. It was actually when we brought our resident cat back (she had been staying at my mom’s in the duration and has since passed this year) when he was around 6 months that it began. At about a year old, he ate a rubber duck he found which required surgery. The next year he ate a plush that belonged to my deceased father that was sitting on a shelf. He is relentless getting objects to eat if he sees them. Thankfully we managed to induce vomiting for that one, but he ended up really ill and vomiting blood which took two weeks and hundreds of dollars to fix.
Since it is so financially straining for this habit, we have true to remove any objects he would get into. And he’s confined to his own room when we are not home or at night when he cannot be supervised. He will even go as far as eating the corners of pillows if he’s ambitious enough.
Well the day after Christmas, my husband and I accidentally let our guard down and Cheesecurd got ahold of one of our kitten’s toys. He ate all legs and pompous off except one (picture attached). So of course, we went to the emergency vet to be unsuccessful at vomiting and take x-rays. They decided to see if he could pass them. Fast forward two days and still no sign of them, so back to my vet he went. They kept him for the day and tried barium but it moved through with no issues. So we think they might have passed without me noticing despite checking every two hours those first few days. So almost $1,200 later, there’s no change. Obviously we can’t constantly do this.
Has anyone dealt with this? He has had a full blood and urine analysis done with no health issues. He currently gets 1 cup of Purina One Indoor and a quarter of a can of Friskies per day. So food is readily available.
In regards to boredom, we have tried all types of methods to entertain him while in the room like plastic balls and toys that cannot be consumed but he has no interest. He does love playing with our almost 4 month kitten.
But we are at a loss of how to move forward with this. Because as it happened this week, it just takes one accident of a toy getting left out that we end up several thousand in debt with surgeries. Needless to say, my husband is less than thrilled.
