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Hi, You were all so helpful and supportive to me back in june when my cat birthed 8 kittens. I duly fed them every 2 hours with RC milk and mum managed the rest. They all survived, gaining weight rapidly, and my vet was amazed at how beautiful and healthy they all were when it came to vaccine time.
2 weeks ago I sold the last kitten (pedigree ragdolls), my favourite of the boys, to a lovely couple who clearly fell in love at first sight.
A week ago he fell ill, slept a lot and neither eating n or playing with their other kitten.
3 daily vet trips later, their vet decided to keep him in for observation as he was clearly declining rapidly. It seems that he has one deformed kidney which has stopped functioning altogether and apparently, unlike humans, cats can't manage on only one. ???
He was going to euthanise him on Friday to prevent any further suffering as he was dying anyway, but instead he took him home for the weekend and Jazzy perked up. He'd been on a "perfusion" (French – infusion perhaps? I don't know) and it had allowed his remaining kidney to process the toxins and begin to eliminate them.
He was then going to remove the "perfusion" to see if the single kidney could cope on its own.
I've heard nothing back today, can anyone throw any light on it?
I shall obviously have to reimburse the family as it's not of their doing, or exchange Jazz for the little joy we'd decided to keep.
Sadly we can ill afford stiff vet's bills to keep him alive but I don't see any other choice. But if he has to spend his life with a bag attached to his arm, what quality of life is that for a cat?
It goes without saying that this has been stressful in the extreme, I've not cried so much in a long, long time, both for him and for them.
2 weeks ago I sold the last kitten (pedigree ragdolls), my favourite of the boys, to a lovely couple who clearly fell in love at first sight.
A week ago he fell ill, slept a lot and neither eating n or playing with their other kitten.
3 daily vet trips later, their vet decided to keep him in for observation as he was clearly declining rapidly. It seems that he has one deformed kidney which has stopped functioning altogether and apparently, unlike humans, cats can't manage on only one. ???
He was going to euthanise him on Friday to prevent any further suffering as he was dying anyway, but instead he took him home for the weekend and Jazzy perked up. He'd been on a "perfusion" (French – infusion perhaps? I don't know) and it had allowed his remaining kidney to process the toxins and begin to eliminate them.
He was then going to remove the "perfusion" to see if the single kidney could cope on its own.
I've heard nothing back today, can anyone throw any light on it?
I shall obviously have to reimburse the family as it's not of their doing, or exchange Jazz for the little joy we'd decided to keep.
Sadly we can ill afford stiff vet's bills to keep him alive but I don't see any other choice. But if he has to spend his life with a bag attached to his arm, what quality of life is that for a cat?
It goes without saying that this has been stressful in the extreme, I've not cried so much in a long, long time, both for him and for them.