I'm not sure if you mean 9 year old or 9 month old...
Anyhow, my heart goes out to you. It's tough to try to get help and
find that some vets are not always gentle and kind with your baby.
I've had that happen, it's heart-wrenching, it's awful.
Re the vet - wondering why you don't call the last vet - who did the
surgery, if he was ok. Might be able to get some help with a phone
call and not necessarily an office visit - maybe a different
antibiotic or something.
Pus coming from her anus would make me think she's got infection in
her bowel. I'd guess she needs plenty of fluids - do you knwo how to
administer sub-q fluids at home? Might be a good thing to ask
about. She might need another enema, and I hate those things - tell
them to be gentle. With my consitpated older kitty, I used to use
Lactulose, and and also some homeopathic remedies, as well as giving
him a little mineral oil sometimes. I also liked Vitamin C for my
constipated kitty. But i don't know, with the pus... again you might
call and ask the vet about what you can do at home.
Best of luck,
Gloria
On Jun 25, 2006, at 1:45 PM, l.j. crabtree wrote:
when she was disgnosed about 6 months ago i prescribed to your list
and she seemed to be doing we got much information to make living
with he felv better.
my 9 yr. old Felv kitten is very ill...we had a very stressful
appointment and will never go back to that vet again, even though
he came highly recommended. he manhandled her and she never really
seemed the same after that.
i researched my options and also lurked here to get infor regarding
minnie's maintenance. .. she receives a wonderful fresh diet now
and also a number of suppliments y'all have been so sweet to
recommend. she seemed to be maintaining until about 2-3 weeks
ago.... then i noticed she had not been defecating for a few
days... and a mass in her abdomen. it was last weekend that i
rushed her to our animal emergency clinic. i had a sneaking feeling
that she might be impacted.
the doctors seemed very capable and very caring. they found her to
be slightly dehydrated and a high fever... they stabilized her with
IV meds, gave her two enemas on saturday then took some
radiograms... they did not see anything that seemed like a tumor.
the doc stuck a syringe into the area and drew out fluid which
showed she had a bad infection, probably an abcess.
they sedated her and sure neough there was an abcess. they placed
two drains in her abdomen, and i got to bring her home, with orders
to give her claamox for a week and return to have the tubes
removed. she seemed to be doing better until mid week when i
noticed no bowel movement ( or at least i didn't see where she had
produced), and she wasn't as perky. took her back friday, they
removed the tubes. her appetite was good (gave her pumpkin which
she readily ate with her meal) over the weekend and the first part
of the week. she has not had a bowel movement but still is leaking
some of the pus from her anus. i am going to take her into another
vet tomorrow, if i can sneak her in.
any ideas/obsevations? i am so afraid this is it....
