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I keep a bottle of mineral oil in my house because my skin is dry and I put it on my face at night as soon as I get out of the shower. Evidently I didn't screw the top back on it tight enough because my cats knocked the bottle off the bathroom counter top sometime today and it spilled all over the floor.
Then they drank it!
When I walked in my door tonight I thought something had either gone bad or that my partner had left garbage somewhere because my house smelled H O R R I B L E ! ! It completely and utterly reeked, and my house never smells like that. As I began to walk through it I started seeing spots of diarrhea.
Not only did my cats drink mineral oil but they also managed to get into packets of the tuna fish I bought in case the hurricane knocked out the power. I guess I didn't completely shut the cabinet this morning and the cats were able to paw it open.
They didn't drink all of the mineral oil but they certainly managed to make a dent in it. I called my vet's office and one of the techs called me back. She said not to worry too much, just to fast the cats for twenty-four hours and have plenty of water available to them. She said that ingesting oil could trigger Thirteen's pancreatitis but that there was nothing that could be done now.
I get that this has the potential to be funny but (A) my cats are all three sick which stresses me out and (B) my house is covered in cat diarrhea that smells like tuna fish! It's eighty-five degrees in Orlando and I've got every single window raised that can be. My sofas, chairs, beds, rugs, almost everything has poop on it. And as quickly as I can clean it up one of them poops again.
Plus, if they do manage to make it to one of their boxes there's something about the mineral oil that keeps the litter from clumping. It's just awful. And now my cats are going nuts because they're hungry. They last ate at about 7:00 a.m.
I guess I have to fast them though, right? If I feed them it's just going to make it worse, won't it?
Then they drank it!
When I walked in my door tonight I thought something had either gone bad or that my partner had left garbage somewhere because my house smelled H O R R I B L E ! ! It completely and utterly reeked, and my house never smells like that. As I began to walk through it I started seeing spots of diarrhea.
Not only did my cats drink mineral oil but they also managed to get into packets of the tuna fish I bought in case the hurricane knocked out the power. I guess I didn't completely shut the cabinet this morning and the cats were able to paw it open.
They didn't drink all of the mineral oil but they certainly managed to make a dent in it. I called my vet's office and one of the techs called me back. She said not to worry too much, just to fast the cats for twenty-four hours and have plenty of water available to them. She said that ingesting oil could trigger Thirteen's pancreatitis but that there was nothing that could be done now.
I get that this has the potential to be funny but (A) my cats are all three sick which stresses me out and (B) my house is covered in cat diarrhea that smells like tuna fish! It's eighty-five degrees in Orlando and I've got every single window raised that can be. My sofas, chairs, beds, rugs, almost everything has poop on it. And as quickly as I can clean it up one of them poops again.
Plus, if they do manage to make it to one of their boxes there's something about the mineral oil that keeps the litter from clumping. It's just awful. And now my cats are going nuts because they're hungry. They last ate at about 7:00 a.m.
I guess I have to fast them though, right? If I feed them it's just going to make it worse, won't it?