Captain had a rough week. He was diagnosed with a bladder infection last Monday and prescribed some medicine for it and for intestinal cramps. We had our usual struggle giving him his medicine. He was able to outsmart the pill popper we had purchased so on Wednesday evening we were just trying to get the pill far enough down in Captain’s mouth that he would swallow it whether he wanted to or not.
For once we were successful.
As my husband was preparing to give Captain the other pill he was prescribed, he discovered that he had made a horrible mistake. My husband had given Cappy one of his own muscle relaxers, Flexeril. We rushed Captain to the emergency vet and had him there within twenty minutes. The vet gave Captain an injection to get him to throw the pill up but he didn’t. Apparently he had already absorbed the pill into his blood stream.
It was rough going for Captain for the rest of the week. He was in the vet clinic all day Thursday and Friday hooked up on IV fluids and in the emergency hospital on Wednesday and Thursday nights. He stayed home with us on Friday night still with the IV needle in place in case we had an emergency.
He had a restful night.
We took him to our vet Saturday morning and they took out the IV needle leaving the green bandage on his leg. The vet told us to keep the bandage on until today and contact them on Monday to see how Captain is doing.
Sometime last night Captain managed to get the bandage off himself. He was sitting on top of a chest in the den this morning next to a lamp. He had knocked everything off the chest to make room to stretch out.
I found the bandage underneath the coffee table.
Captain may have been down but he’s not out!
Be sure to go see all the cats featured at enrevanche in the 148th Edition of the Carnival of the Cats!
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Carnival of the Cats #148...
Mister Gato welcomes you to the (hurriedly assembled due to Barry's travel delays) 148th Carnival of the Cats....
January 21st, 2007 | #
Sir, yes, sir . . . Wonderful news . . .
January 21st, 2007 | #
He's feeling much better tonight. He's gotten so much attention from us that Sabby and the rest of the boys are feeling kinda blue. But Sabby has stuck close to Captain this weekend.
January 21st, 2007 | #
Ah, the poor little fellow! What a rough time he has been having. Glad he's on the mend. He's in my heart as always.
Last week when I was home on vacation my two became UNBELIEVABLY spoiled. Tim actually was offended if I tried to do ANYTHING - like cook a meal for myself or do the laundry or run the dishwasher or anything like that. Even normal nap times seemed to be "lap" times for BOTH of them. And of course, when Sam decides to sit on a lap - he SITS all over the lap! This is a new deal for him (at nearly 6 years of age he is still surpising me) as until the last couple of months, he NEVER voluntarily would come near sitting on my lap. Next to me yes. At my feet, Absolutely. Follow me everywhere - you betcha! But actually sitting on my lap was something that he did NOT do, or so I thought. But in the last few weeks, he has become utterly and completely dedicated to sprawling his rather impressive fundament all over my (fortunately) capacious lap, much to the disgust of little Tim who frequently is left with the back of the recliner for his perch.
There really is NOTHING like a cat! And Captain is so very special - you just have to look at that FACE to know that.
January 22nd, 2007 | #
What a beautiful sight, he looks great. (Prayers of Thanks for sure tonight!)
January 22nd, 2007 | #
[...] We use non-clumping kitty litter. The clumping kind got on one of our cat’s paws and found it’s way into his intestine, causing a blockage. Captain’s a clean freak, always licking his paws and that clumping litter really did some damage. He’s okay now but no more clumping litter is allowed in our home. [...]
March 24th, 2007 | #