Hey everyone!
I am new to this site but looking for some opinions! It'll be a long post but I feel all of the info is needes to understand what we're going through. I foster a lot of cats and have an 8 week old kitten here that since getting him at 4 weeks old has always had 1 day a week where he drools excessively. He eats Innova wet and Nutro dry. I wasn't wetting the dry down until last week when the vet advised me to. He got into dry food, without water added, yesterday morning, this I think is the culprit to our problem.
On his drooly days, he isn't too interested in food or play but likes to just hang out and be left alone. We saw a vet last week about this and she couldn't pin point it. He always comes out of these episodes, it never lasts more than 24 hours.
Yesterday, I noticed around noon he was drooling. By 4:30pm he was in a fetal position, not wanting to hold himself up, use the litter box, or repsond much to me talking to him. I rushed him to the ER vet. They did radiographs that showed a suspsicious thickened area of intestines right below his stomach. She (the vet) said she isn't sure what it is but it could be intussusception. We gave him pain meds for the night and I drove him to the rescue coordinators home so he could be seen the next morning by their vet (at a much cheaper cost too)
When I dropped him off last night, I spoke to our preferred vet on the phone. I explained all that had happened and she was shocked to hear a vet that suspected intussusception would even let me leave without mentioning the need for surgery. Anyways, she said she doesn't think the vet had a good enough idea what it could be and just mentioned it may be intussusception to us. We let poor kitty rest for the night and he would be seen in the a.m.
I gotta be honest, I wasn't expecting gim to pull through such an ordeal but he did!! He was very confused and unhappy coming off of the pain meds but he is totally normal.Eating, using litter box, playing, etc. My question is this: after all my research I am finding that an intussusception is almost always fatal if not treated. What other conditions could cause inflamed intestines and such pain? I don't think he had an intussusception but he will be seeing another vet tomorrow to review radiographs and come up with a treatment plan to prevent this again.
I have read about IBD and had This mentioned to the vet this morning. She agreed it may be a severe allergy to food, most likely dry food, and to keep him on wet food only. I am so paranoid this is going to keep happening, though....
Any input is greatly appreciated! Thank you!!
I am new to this site but looking for some opinions! It'll be a long post but I feel all of the info is needes to understand what we're going through. I foster a lot of cats and have an 8 week old kitten here that since getting him at 4 weeks old has always had 1 day a week where he drools excessively. He eats Innova wet and Nutro dry. I wasn't wetting the dry down until last week when the vet advised me to. He got into dry food, without water added, yesterday morning, this I think is the culprit to our problem.
On his drooly days, he isn't too interested in food or play but likes to just hang out and be left alone. We saw a vet last week about this and she couldn't pin point it. He always comes out of these episodes, it never lasts more than 24 hours.
Yesterday, I noticed around noon he was drooling. By 4:30pm he was in a fetal position, not wanting to hold himself up, use the litter box, or repsond much to me talking to him. I rushed him to the ER vet. They did radiographs that showed a suspsicious thickened area of intestines right below his stomach. She (the vet) said she isn't sure what it is but it could be intussusception. We gave him pain meds for the night and I drove him to the rescue coordinators home so he could be seen the next morning by their vet (at a much cheaper cost too)
When I dropped him off last night, I spoke to our preferred vet on the phone. I explained all that had happened and she was shocked to hear a vet that suspected intussusception would even let me leave without mentioning the need for surgery. Anyways, she said she doesn't think the vet had a good enough idea what it could be and just mentioned it may be intussusception to us. We let poor kitty rest for the night and he would be seen in the a.m.
I gotta be honest, I wasn't expecting gim to pull through such an ordeal but he did!! He was very confused and unhappy coming off of the pain meds but he is totally normal.Eating, using litter box, playing, etc. My question is this: after all my research I am finding that an intussusception is almost always fatal if not treated. What other conditions could cause inflamed intestines and such pain? I don't think he had an intussusception but he will be seeing another vet tomorrow to review radiographs and come up with a treatment plan to prevent this again.
I have read about IBD and had This mentioned to the vet this morning. She agreed it may be a severe allergy to food, most likely dry food, and to keep him on wet food only. I am so paranoid this is going to keep happening, though....
Any input is greatly appreciated! Thank you!!
Sometimes the best thing you can do, is let them go.
