Hi all! I'm not sure if I am posting this in the right place, but I have posted about Butterscotch in this forum before ("black gunk on tail") so I thought I'd post here.
Butterscotch is a male orange tabby about 3-5 years old who found us sometime last summer following another feral cat that we were feeding on our second story deck. The other cat was found dead in a neighbor's yard last fall, but Butterscotch returned to us a few weeks later. We had been feeding him since then outside. He must have been someone's pet a while ago, because he loves attention and being petted. Though he is skitterish since he's been outside for at least a year now, and only lets us pet him to a point, before he swipes out with his claws.
A few weeks ago, he went missing for 3 days and then came back with his ear shredded up (again!), but he wasn't putting any weight on his left front leg. Not having the means to take care of him financially, I found a wonderful organization who was willing to help us out with Butterscotch. They even use our same vet - who is very generous with this organization, giving them a much reduced fee.
They took him to this vet, he was neutered, his wound was stitched up on his shoulder, and he was found to have a severe urinary tract blockage. The vet told the women that he would have been dead within 1-2 days if they had not brought him in! The vet extracted a lot of urine from him, and he was put on prescription s/d canned and dry food - again many thanks to these women for providing us with the food for him for now.
He stayed in a cage in our garage for a few days until we were able to clean out a small room off our kitchen for him - he's been in there for a week now. He had a voracious apetite and I couldn't give him enough food. He started using the litterbox on the second day in the room, and used it well.
This past Friday night, our grown son gave him dinner for us, as neither my husband nor I were home at dinner time. He gave him the correct amount of the wet food, and Butterscotch still had some dry food in his bowl. Saturday morning, my husband found that he had vomited all over the room, and also made diarhea all over the room - yet most of the food was still in the bowls!!!
He has eaten only a few licks of the wet food (fresh) since Saturday morning and no dry food at all. He only used the litterbox a few times on Saturday. Not at all today.
I have spoken with the women today and he will hopefully go back to the vet tomorrow morning. BUT... we have to get him in a carrier - we had used food to get him into the trap and cage last time, but he is not interested in food right now. Again, I appreciate these women more than they will ever know!
I'm pretty sure he must be totally blocked again - he is so miserable that he even bit my huband's hand this morning and broke the skin - he usually lets him pet him for quite a while, but bit him when he went to take out the old wet food. He did let him pet him for a while about an hour ago, so that is good.
I guess I am writing here because I don't know who else to talk to about him, and I am very worried about him. As cat lovers, you all would understand.
Butterscotch is a male orange tabby about 3-5 years old who found us sometime last summer following another feral cat that we were feeding on our second story deck. The other cat was found dead in a neighbor's yard last fall, but Butterscotch returned to us a few weeks later. We had been feeding him since then outside. He must have been someone's pet a while ago, because he loves attention and being petted. Though he is skitterish since he's been outside for at least a year now, and only lets us pet him to a point, before he swipes out with his claws.
A few weeks ago, he went missing for 3 days and then came back with his ear shredded up (again!), but he wasn't putting any weight on his left front leg. Not having the means to take care of him financially, I found a wonderful organization who was willing to help us out with Butterscotch. They even use our same vet - who is very generous with this organization, giving them a much reduced fee.
They took him to this vet, he was neutered, his wound was stitched up on his shoulder, and he was found to have a severe urinary tract blockage. The vet told the women that he would have been dead within 1-2 days if they had not brought him in! The vet extracted a lot of urine from him, and he was put on prescription s/d canned and dry food - again many thanks to these women for providing us with the food for him for now.
He stayed in a cage in our garage for a few days until we were able to clean out a small room off our kitchen for him - he's been in there for a week now. He had a voracious apetite and I couldn't give him enough food. He started using the litterbox on the second day in the room, and used it well.
This past Friday night, our grown son gave him dinner for us, as neither my husband nor I were home at dinner time. He gave him the correct amount of the wet food, and Butterscotch still had some dry food in his bowl. Saturday morning, my husband found that he had vomited all over the room, and also made diarhea all over the room - yet most of the food was still in the bowls!!!
He has eaten only a few licks of the wet food (fresh) since Saturday morning and no dry food at all. He only used the litterbox a few times on Saturday. Not at all today.
I have spoken with the women today and he will hopefully go back to the vet tomorrow morning. BUT... we have to get him in a carrier - we had used food to get him into the trap and cage last time, but he is not interested in food right now. Again, I appreciate these women more than they will ever know!
I'm pretty sure he must be totally blocked again - he is so miserable that he even bit my huband's hand this morning and broke the skin - he usually lets him pet him for quite a while, but bit him when he went to take out the old wet food. He did let him pet him for a while about an hour ago, so that is good.
I guess I am writing here because I don't know who else to talk to about him, and I am very worried about him. As cat lovers, you all would understand.