[450] Emily

[George Andrews]

Leslie,

Sammy cattus survived so many things, including a spinal cord stroke. He did 
get so sick that he was barely mobile. Some cats do not like fish. I would 
still try the water from tuna and water, no salt, no oil. See if she will 
drink it. Another thing to try is some diced chicken that you have for a 
meal, no spices , no salt. From what youy have told me, I can't suggest much 
else in terms of food.

I have found that there is a very wide range of "standard of care" with 
vets. We had emergencies with Sammy and were told on one occasion that we 
needed to think about how far we wanted to go with this. This particular vet 
suggested putting him down. They could not tell me what was wrong with him! 
Needless to say, I did not listen. Some will provide care, but nothing 
aggressive. Them there are those who will actively work with you to do 
whatever can be done to keep Emily healthy. Do you have a dose vs. blood 
sugar level you work from? Do you report this to your vet and does he/she 
periodically adjust it? This is one standard of care I would expect (advice 
is by phone so there is no charge). Has there been any imaging of 
pancreas/liver to see what is happening there?

We have always taken our cats to cats only vets for the most part. The one 
time we did not do this and Sammy required a several night stay, he did not 
do well. About the only way I can describe it is depressed. He never liked 
to be away from us, but it was worse if he had to stay with dogs around.

Another thought, do you have plants in the house? We have gotten rid of all 
plants toxic to cats. It took us two times to understand some plants are 
simply not compatible with cats. Twice our cats got so sick, we thought they 
would not live. Anything else she might have gotten into? The vet probably 
already mentioned this.

As for humans, sometimes a second or third opinion is good. Towards the end 
we did this for Sammy. It may seem like a lot of trouble and expense to do 
this, but I could not do anything else for him. If you want some names of 
vets, let me know.

George

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Leslie Busino" <partybug at charter.net>
To: "144.450 Mailing List" <450 at lists.vhfwiki.com>
Sent: Saturday, June 04, 2011 2:43 PM
Subject: Re: [450] Emily


> George,
>
> I am having to force her right now.  She has not gone to the litter box at 
> all.  She has no real favorites as long as it is wet food Fancy Feast 
> Classic.  She sticks in the turkey and giblet and chicken and beef.  No 
> fish.  She tends to get sick everytime she gets her teeth into something 
> that might have fish in it.  So, I decided long ago that she must have an 
> aversion to it.
>

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