hey fellow cat mommas and daddies,
I have a bit of an alarming thing.
I just want you guys' opinion on this, since I am totally blind and cannot easily get to Hikari's vet just yet, but am planning to once I can get transport.
My Hikari has been vomiting off and on for the past few months. took her into her vet 1 august to see if she could get examined as I was very worried.
Some backstory first.
When I was living with my dad--I had to get out of the situation I was living in before as it was unsafe--he insisted on keeping her in the garage due to he and my stepfamily having sugar gliders. He told me he never let any of the cats in the house so she would be no exception. This concerned and angered me.
So now we come to her moving in with me after my landlord said yes.
After she moved in with me, she had intermitant vomiting. I thought nothing of it, thinking that it was hairballs..hes I would have to touch the vomit sometimes in order to find it before cleaning! Being blind is annoying sometimes! lol
I took a sample of her vomit to the vet when I took her in in August, they said it was hairballs as it felt cylindrical and weird.
They wanted to do xrays, and bloodwork and the whole 9 yards..but since I only get SSI, I didn't have the cash to afford those tests. well, I did, but if i had, that would have been all of my check for that month and I would have had none to live on or even pay my rent. So I had to decline. They then suspected it was a food alergy due to her itching and stuff. They placed her on a proscription diet.
She did ok on that for a bit, but would still get sick sometimes.
Then, to be honest, this month since the price of royal canon is $60...a bit steep for my $735 a month budget, I went to the shop and compared it to Hill Science Diet sensative stomach cat food. The ingredients were almost identical.
She would do just fine on it for days and days...then she would vomit. Again.
It got very concerning so today, thank God for sighted housemates...one of them came in to look at the vomitous. She said it contained long, white wriggling worms!
I am wondering if every time she would vomit in the past since she moved here if it had those worms in?
Are those roundworms?
I will take a sample of her
stool in when I go in to get the dewormer to see if they can confirm the type of worm and get her fixed right up.
I am just worried and wondering what I should do until then to keep her comfortable.
It concerns me when I hear her getting sick as A, I don't know where she got sick so sometimes the only way to find is if I step in it, and B, if I should continue feeding her anyhow as she will just vomit it right back up again.
Thanks all.
Hugs. <3
I have a bit of an alarming thing.
I just want you guys' opinion on this, since I am totally blind and cannot easily get to Hikari's vet just yet, but am planning to once I can get transport.
My Hikari has been vomiting off and on for the past few months. took her into her vet 1 august to see if she could get examined as I was very worried.
Some backstory first.
When I was living with my dad--I had to get out of the situation I was living in before as it was unsafe--he insisted on keeping her in the garage due to he and my stepfamily having sugar gliders. He told me he never let any of the cats in the house so she would be no exception. This concerned and angered me.
So now we come to her moving in with me after my landlord said yes.
After she moved in with me, she had intermitant vomiting. I thought nothing of it, thinking that it was hairballs..hes I would have to touch the vomit sometimes in order to find it before cleaning! Being blind is annoying sometimes! lol
I took a sample of her vomit to the vet when I took her in in August, they said it was hairballs as it felt cylindrical and weird.
They wanted to do xrays, and bloodwork and the whole 9 yards..but since I only get SSI, I didn't have the cash to afford those tests. well, I did, but if i had, that would have been all of my check for that month and I would have had none to live on or even pay my rent. So I had to decline. They then suspected it was a food alergy due to her itching and stuff. They placed her on a proscription diet.
She did ok on that for a bit, but would still get sick sometimes.
Then, to be honest, this month since the price of royal canon is $60...a bit steep for my $735 a month budget, I went to the shop and compared it to Hill Science Diet sensative stomach cat food. The ingredients were almost identical.
She would do just fine on it for days and days...then she would vomit. Again.
It got very concerning so today, thank God for sighted housemates...one of them came in to look at the vomitous. She said it contained long, white wriggling worms!
I am wondering if every time she would vomit in the past since she moved here if it had those worms in?
Are those roundworms?
I will take a sample of her
stool in when I go in to get the dewormer to see if they can confirm the type of worm and get her fixed right up.
I am just worried and wondering what I should do until then to keep her comfortable.
It concerns me when I hear her getting sick as A, I don't know where she got sick so sometimes the only way to find is if I step in it, and B, if I should continue feeding her anyhow as she will just vomit it right back up again.
Thanks all.
Hugs. <3
. I'm not sure how long they can live outside of their host, but still... 
