TUXBOY IS HOME!!! (and tortie update)
Wow, does he look funny. Besides having the cone on his head, they had to shave a lot. So his tummy pooch is all bald and pink and wobbling. The inside of his back legs are shaved.
Most silly is his backside. Between the inflammation and the baldness, him's got a BABOON BUTT!
We will be taking pictures of all this for everyone's amusement. Right now, he's (sort of) figured out how to eat some gooshyfood and has settled on teh windo shlef.
We have antibiotics and painkillers twice a day (liquid, oh joy, PTUI), plus an antiseptic wash for him cat ass.
2 weeks (!) till the stitches come out, so him has to be conehead for that long.
Have decided to forgo the expensive kitty litter and go with recommended alternative of shredded newspaper.
Meanwhile, the past few days, Tortie wasn't eating. Last night she was particularly bad. So we took her to the emergency care vet (only open nights and weekends) down at the other end of town. MROOOW! She's okay, we just need to coax her into eating anything possible. (And she might have furballs)
She is a diva kitty and has done this before, pre-TK. I think (and the emerg. vet agrees) that she got a complex in her widdle floofy head about all the ants running around the kitchen floor. She HATES ants on her tufty toes, so it put her off food even though the ants don't get in the food.
Vet suggested the miracle drug Valium. It was one of the most AMAZING things I've ever seen. They gave her a little tiny shot right into a vein and literally 30 seconds later she was NOM NOM NOM like you wouldn't believe. She ate more than she had in a couple of days, right there on the exam table. Like she was a little floofy zombie. The nice vet lady sez she thinks it works like pot -- kitty is stoned and gets instant uncontrollable munchies so you have to have the food open and ready before you give the shot. We talked about it all the way home. I have never seen a kitteh go from "don't care" to NOM NOM NOM like that.
So, Miss Pretty Pretty Princess Kitty (the vet and the tech both have diva torties so they know) is going to get her foodies in different places, and some different gooshyfoods with maybe some gravy. Just have to get her back into the habit of eating. Hopefully she'll go back to snarfling TK's food now that he's home.
I am exhausted, mentally.
But there will be shaved pussy pix later. ;)
Comments
Thanks for the update, and ummm, can't wait for pics!
I hope Tortie starts eating properly - that's really worrisome. :( I think seeing ants crawling about would just make the Miao Bros hungrier (especially Lotus). Maybe deep down HRT was upset by TK's condition, maybe she worried about him or maybe it just upset her routine for him to be so sick...
I had a black cat with a tail abcess once, so I know what you mean.....
The poor boy felt so bad, that I felt really guilty laughing that hard.
Por Tortie, though, all her wonderful pouting destroyed by a single shot!
Poor LT with another vet visit! Amazing about the Valium, though.
I'm glad to hear about TK home. I also can't wait for the buttpix.
I'm not touching that with a ten-foot pole.
I asked the vet "Can we get some Valium for mommy?" heh.
She's still not eating properly, so I'm going to try some different kinds of wet fud. And allow her to stay in the bedroom overnight, safe from the strange-looking and smelling tuxbrat.
Him boy is having to eat off completely flat surfaces. Any edge, even like you get on a paper plate, is too confusing for him to maneuver around. The first time he ate, right after getting home, he dropped the fud on the floor to eat it, and got it all over the inside of his cone.
Upon further examination, his underside has been shaved completely from about the bottom of his breastbone all the way to his baboon butt.
Oh dear. Looks like we'll have to take him back in. The cone is keeping him from eating, but he can just barely get his tongue out to lick his stitches. Him not too bright, but very flexible.
wish me luck, it's time for him TWO liquid medicines.
I'm wanting to feed TK mostly wet food, but crunchies are much easier for him to eat. He gets gooshyfood smeared all over his cone and dropped on the floor, whereas he can stick out his tongue and the dry will stick to it. Whatever he eats, he periodically has to stick his head straight up. And his earz get folded back with the cone sometimes. The cone diverted the flow of the water fountain on to the floor at first, much confusion (hee!). Physics not him strong suit.
But it works as a megaphone to focus the purrrrrrrrrrrr.
As soon as he got home and ate, I reached into the cone and skritched his face and ears and he went purrrrrrrrrrrrrr.
For those who want to know the medical details of TK's whole saga:
FLUTD, PU
TK asleeeeep now on teh windo shlef.
Love to all of you and perk up & get better & heal quick wishes to bof Princess Tortie and Hansum boy TK from me, please.