For the Heck of it!

Skid got to stay home yesterday and he was very happy about it. All in all, he ate a whole can of food (one teaspoon at a time during the day) and was quite a bit more lively than he had been. Over the weekend he was doing so poorly that he would not even lift his head up. Now he walks around and yesterday he even went out on the screened porch.

We took him back to the vet this morning to have his catheter removed from his paw. He was given some pain medication and some antibiotics. His right hind leg still seems to be causing him pain. He is not eating as much as yesterday but at least he is eating.

There was a brief time that I was wondering if this was the end of the road for him. He is not completely out of the woods yet but hopefully he will recover fully and live another happy few years.

Skid spent the day at the animal hospital again today. When he got home he started eating on his own! I hope he continues to improve. He gets to stay home tomorrow. Yay.

Hubby force fed Skid over the weekend but he still refuses to eat by himself. He took Skid to the Vet early this morning and left him there all day.

Skid’s blood sugar was elevated at 278 and we’re told the normal level is 160. He was put on an IV, given appetite pills and force fed during the day. His blood was checked several times during the day also. Hubby picked him up at 6:30pm and brought him home.

He would not eat anything at all and would barely even pick head up. He yowled when he went to the litter box and we never did find out that that was all about. He has to spend the day at the hospital again tomorrow.

Hubby and I took all three cats to the vet last Tuesday for their routine checkups and they all got their vaccines.

Friday morning I noticed our oldest cat, Skid, would not eat his breakfast. This worried me of course, so I called the vet who said to bring him in the next morning.

It turns out he had a delayed reaction from the rabies shot which was making him sick. The vet put a subcutaneous pouch of liquid under the skin on the back of his neck because he had lost 5 ounces of weight since Tuesday and she said he was dehydrated. She also gave Skid a shot and some high calorie food and taught us how to force feed him in case he still didn’t want to eat.