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flutterbee
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About a week after my beloved cat, Cassie, passed away, a friend of mine found a mommy cat with her 3 kittens that were about 6 weeks old. At the age of 8 weeks, we took one of the kittens - the runt - and named her Abbey. I told difficult child that this was her cat; that I didn't have the emotionally capacity right now to get attached to another cat. That lasted all of a day and a half. She's been with us for 3 weeks now.
Abbey, black, short haired Abbey, stole my heart with her spunk, fiestiness, inquisitiveness, and affection. I was very worried how she would do with Puddles, our difficult child cat, who always bullies the other cats. He's such a brat. Well, 2 pound Abbey didn't take any cr@p from 15+ pound Puddles and they became best friends. Where you find one, you find the other. Puddles grooms Abbey, they play together, eat together and sleep together. Puddles will be trying to sleep and Abbey will be climbing all over him and attacking and Puddles is just non-plussed about it. Puddles is a different cat with Abbey.
I had to rush Abbey to the emergency vet yesterday because she was vomitting, not eating or drinking and was unable to urinate. On the way there she passed a blood clot, and passed another in the clinic along with bloody urine. Tests showed a urinary tract infection, possibly a kidney infection and the ultrasound showed what appeared to be abnormal kidney's.
Today we went to our regular vet. The bloodwork indicates congenital kidney disease. The numbers are off the chart, at a toxic level, and what the vet says he normally sees in an 18 year old cat. He administered some fluids under the skin and we are going to repeat that daily until Thursday. On Thursday, he will re-do the bloodwork and we'll see. But it doesn't look good for baby Abbey. :crying:
2007 has just sucked. Sigh....
Abbey, black, short haired Abbey, stole my heart with her spunk, fiestiness, inquisitiveness, and affection. I was very worried how she would do with Puddles, our difficult child cat, who always bullies the other cats. He's such a brat. Well, 2 pound Abbey didn't take any cr@p from 15+ pound Puddles and they became best friends. Where you find one, you find the other. Puddles grooms Abbey, they play together, eat together and sleep together. Puddles will be trying to sleep and Abbey will be climbing all over him and attacking and Puddles is just non-plussed about it. Puddles is a different cat with Abbey.
I had to rush Abbey to the emergency vet yesterday because she was vomitting, not eating or drinking and was unable to urinate. On the way there she passed a blood clot, and passed another in the clinic along with bloody urine. Tests showed a urinary tract infection, possibly a kidney infection and the ultrasound showed what appeared to be abnormal kidney's.
Today we went to our regular vet. The bloodwork indicates congenital kidney disease. The numbers are off the chart, at a toxic level, and what the vet says he normally sees in an 18 year old cat. He administered some fluids under the skin and we are going to repeat that daily until Thursday. On Thursday, he will re-do the bloodwork and we'll see. But it doesn't look good for baby Abbey. :crying:
2007 has just sucked. Sigh....