I don't like this year much, either.
May. 20th, 2012 04:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
impyYesterday my orange terrorist, Tiggy, died. Technically he was the boy's cat, but after 14-16 years ( no one can agree on how old Tiggles was) you definitely get attached. Especially after Belle died. :/
He hadn't been eating the last few days (well, he'd nibble but he went from wolfing down a can and begging for another down to nibbling) and yesterday when we came home, he wasn't meowing like himself. Swear to god, he mewed and it sounded like Belle. I'll admit I got a little panicky, but I kept pushing for someone to take him to the vet but no one would listen to me.
The boy called the vet and they suggested boiling plain chicken to see if he'd eat that. Which is a lovely sentiment but he's down to not eating and he's acting funny. This isn't fix his food this is "bring him in" but they lie when they say that they're open for emergencies on Saturdays. Annnnyway. Tiggy went from bad to worse while Mums was at the store picking up the chicken...
I don't know what I expected the vet to do, but if I'd known that he'd die there, I probably would have kept him home and not just because I don't appreciate paying $50 for tests that didn't do me any damn good. But I'm not psychic, so I guess I thought they'd just tell me he was probably dying and I might find out why, and then I'd bring him home... but this time I could say I tried. This time I might know what killed my kitty.
Instead, we end up at the ER and they kept calling him a her and in the three minutes he was out of our sight (they took him to he back to warm him up as his temp was low) he went into cardiac arrest. Since the vet said it was highly unlikely for him to recover even if they did a blood transfusion since his kidneys were likely failing... we had them stop CPR.
My poor piggles died surrounded by people who thought he was a she and didn't know him for all his wonderful weirdness.
If I hadn't pushed for him to go to the vet, would he have lived longer? I feel like I killed him which I know isn't exactly true, but I feel that way all the same. :/
Snagglepig!
He hadn't been eating the last few days (well, he'd nibble but he went from wolfing down a can and begging for another down to nibbling) and yesterday when we came home, he wasn't meowing like himself. Swear to god, he mewed and it sounded like Belle. I'll admit I got a little panicky, but I kept pushing for someone to take him to the vet but no one would listen to me.
The boy called the vet and they suggested boiling plain chicken to see if he'd eat that. Which is a lovely sentiment but he's down to not eating and he's acting funny. This isn't fix his food this is "bring him in" but they lie when they say that they're open for emergencies on Saturdays. Annnnyway. Tiggy went from bad to worse while Mums was at the store picking up the chicken...
I don't know what I expected the vet to do, but if I'd known that he'd die there, I probably would have kept him home and not just because I don't appreciate paying $50 for tests that didn't do me any damn good. But I'm not psychic, so I guess I thought they'd just tell me he was probably dying and I might find out why, and then I'd bring him home... but this time I could say I tried. This time I might know what killed my kitty.
Instead, we end up at the ER and they kept calling him a her and in the three minutes he was out of our sight (they took him to he back to warm him up as his temp was low) he went into cardiac arrest. Since the vet said it was highly unlikely for him to recover even if they did a blood transfusion since his kidneys were likely failing... we had them stop CPR.
My poor piggles died surrounded by people who thought he was a she and didn't know him for all his wonderful weirdness.
If I hadn't pushed for him to go to the vet, would he have lived longer? I feel like I killed him which I know isn't exactly true, but I feel that way all the same. :/
Snagglepig!
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Date: 2012-05-21 02:13 am (UTC)I think you know that if you hadn't taken him to the vet, you'd feel just as bad, if not worse, for not doing anything at all and just letting him die. This was a no-win situation :-/
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Date: 2012-05-21 04:02 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-05-25 09:19 pm (UTC)