#pet health cw

[blindmagdalena]

my cat that i birthed and raised myself for the last 17 years is having some medical issues. she'll be okay, but it's left me very tender hearted and tired. she's been at the vet since early this morning and i haven't been able to focus on anything else. i just want them to call so i can bring her home 😭

[ghcstofutopia]

been a stressful few days! i admit it.

saturday my senior cat suddenly declined and HARD, by the time we reached the emergency vet at midnight she had three paws out the door. a family member insisted on treating her however they can, while i was accepting the 'inevitable' that we'd be leaving the building heartbroken. i thought there was no way such an old cat could bounce back, but...

it's tuesday now, yesterday she became stable enough to return home. she still didn't look great, but with a couple blood transfusions she was regenerating her own blood cells again. my poor baby was deathly pale. we're on "shifts" for now where said family member watches her at night, me during the day.

her appetite's been coming back, which is a major relief. not even 24 hours ago she was refusing squeezy treats- her favorite- today i'm offering her dry food and water and she's gobbling both up with a purr. giving her medicine is a time but we're getting there, on our first attempt we thought she took it before she waited a full minute to spit it back out from inside her cheek. gotta do that 2 times a day, fun /s

we're not in the clear, but i'm glad to see her old self return bit by bit. remember to cherish the time you have with your pets, because things can turn tragic and fast.

(they had to shave her legs, now she looks like she has on big boots... sorry baby)

[warlockisaslur]

[[ pet health stuff under the cut i just need to get it out somewhere in case i disappear for a couple of days ]]

I have a 17 year old cat, Tiffany. We've had her since she was about 2, and she's lived a good, long life. The last few days she's declined in a hurry. Missing the litter box, not eating, not drinking. Now she can't get around well on her back legs. I have a vet appointment on Monday, but I don't know if she's going to make it. She's... listless. I have her set up in a kitty playpen I bought for a kitten I was going to foster that didn't pan out, with some papers down for her to pee on and some fresh food and water....

I'm kind of breaking down. So I might be quiet, or selective. Or manic. I really don't know. I haven't had to deal with this before.

[iamdarcylewis]

anakin is limping, vet told us he can run or jump for two weeks, hes not eating bc hes a lil shit, and he wont pee bc his legs hurt

but hey i got my license

[pyreshe]

"stormi, you look like mommy baby!" - me after my cat was prescribed feline prozac by the vet 😔

[ihatedean]

please help my baby get his ear surgery done<3

thank you for clicking read more :)

so after months of testing the vet informed us a few days ago that our cat does, in fact, have skin cancer. to get more specific it's actually squamous-cell carcinoma.

(text is in spanish but im sure google lens can translate pretty well.)

it's affecting the tip/side of his left ear and hasn't spread to his nose or the other ear, so the vet recommended surgery to get the ear removed as soon as we possibly can. this would be on september 2nd, this monday.

exams like x-rays and biopsies have already been pretty expensive so i'm making this post to hopefully offset the cost of his pinnectomy (ARS$180,000->USD$189) even just a little bit. the whole thing has been really stressing and adding to that a messed up family situation where i can't ask them for help, please trust me when i say i wouldn't do this if i didn't need to.

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im also comfortable writing for genshin impact. been playing for years and im familiar with the lore up until fontaine. i've been itching to write something for a while :)

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horror

gore

necrophilia

violent non-con or explicit non-con (mentioning it in the story is fine, but i will not write the actual scene)

scat

vore

race play (hateful imagery/racial slurs)

kidfic

for formula 1 im simply inept at doing maxiel and c2. in general, i struggle with max and carlos. won't write anything for lando, sorry. anything else from 2010 to 2024 is fine, and im open to AUs of any kind as well as gender bending :)

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if you read this whole thing, thank you. here is the boy himself. he's almost 11 years old, incredibly grumpy, manipulative, called ugly by almost all my friends, has already gone through eye surgery so that's why his eyes look Like That, and on the rare occasion he sits on my lap i literally cry.

please put sunscreen on your cats, especially if they have white hair like aki. we didn't know for the longest time that exposure to the sun could cause skin cancer on cats and by the time we knew and started doing it, it was too late.

[orange-catsidy]

cw disordered eating

ive always intermittently struggled with disordered eating habits sometimes due to my mom's views on 'bad' food + neurodivergent executive dysfunction + excessive stinginess + all the usual stuff from Living In A Society but ive never wanted to, and never really had to, think about it that much because obviously, society is kinder to ppl disordered towards a lower height than a higher one. it was easy to find reasons why i didn't feel like eating and a lot of times those reasons were true - im too tired and unfocused to cook, nothing in the fridge looks appetizing, i dont feel hungry anyway. i dont think i was consciously trying to lose weight. maybe. i cant remember actively thinking about it. no, that's a lie. i just dont want to. but for some reason when i was getting ready to shower today i really focused on myself in the mirror and realized my ribs have become prominent in an honestly gross way. my shoulders and arms too. i draw and look at pictures of people a lot. i watch pro wrestlers constantly. i know what strong, healthy bodies look like and i dont look like that right now. it was scary to suddenly realize that id dropped to an actually unhealthy weight, but what was scarier is that i could tell some tiny part of myself felt pleased. ive never been more aware of how easy it would be for me to slip off that ledge. i didnt know i was standing that close

[bearllydruid]

// Got less than great results from Paint's vet, her blood work has some markers out of whack, and she's got Kidney disease - which is ironic considering I only have one kidney. She also is anemic, like I am, and we're on the same pain medication. (Gabapentin buddies!)

I'm just.....I know I'm trying to be silly and look at this with humor because that's how I cope with everything, but I just am scared I'm going to wait too long or be too early. I want to be fair to her. I want her to have her peace, and dignity, and have good days and soak up as much love as she can because she deserves that!! She's 16, and she's seen me through so much - and my husband too.

I'm just not ready.

[dumplingprincessextraordinaire]

⚠️‼️VENTING CW:SA mention, animal death, depression

I’ve turned away from most of social media for health reasons so this is my last space to really vent about something I’ve been going through.

My pibble, my best friend and greatest puppy in the whole world, my favorite family member of ten years—is passing away. Tomorrow we’re gonna take her to the vet and see what they say, but realistically with her age, she’s gonna be put to sleep. I’m so heart broken and devastated. I’ve been through so much (s3xual abuse, trauma, heart break, unstable home situations, scary family members) and my dog is the thing that’s been keeping me “anchored” for many years. Of course I have supportive friends and loving family members as well but you know pets have a special place in our hearts that no one else can really occupy. I’m an animal lover at heart and my bestie is especially important to me. Idk how I’m gonna deal, I really don’t know. She’s been my family member and best friend for so long. Everything is gonna be so bleak without her. I’m shaking and crying as I write this.

[mintyscuriocabinet]

Odin is doing well after his surgery! (Nothing serious, we just got him neutered) He has to wear this onesie so he doesn't pick at his stitches and it looks so cute on him! I want to buy a matching one for his brother, Loki (he's also a poodle but he's grey)

[blindmagdalena]

my cat started throwing up after every meal this morning, but our vet is out so she has to go to emergency... she was just at the vet 3 weeks ago where we paid for blood work and a new medication regiment. i'm getting to that stage of 'idk how i'm going to keep affording this.' but i can't not. i really need her to chill out bc my mental health hinges on her lol

[autisticaradiamegido]

day 298

so not to be a bummer, but today would've been my dog's 15th birthday, and it's the first one without her.

to honor her legacy, please go ham on your fave treat and don't forget to be nasty

[obstinatecondolement]

Update on the dog getting spayed for anyone who was curious: Pumpkin was very much not a brave girl at the vet, but my sister was allowed to go in with her while she was getting her injection and the new vet at the practice really liked her (she is a fan of the breed generally and Pumpkin in particular is very winning with most people) and said she was a very good girl who behaved beautifully even though she was scared.

She has been recouperating under a blanket since she got home and has been a bit nauseated, but doesn't seem to be in a lot of physical distress. She has a sky high pain tolerance, so I think it was more the emotional distress that was an issue and now that she's home being petted and made much of by us she feels a lot better.

[steepsheep]

Completely knackered out due to all events today.

Our old man budgie, Ragnar, (10 years old) had to be admitted to emergency vet care this evening.

After a check up this afternoon at his usual avian vet where she (the avian vet):

- did a physical examination (everything was alright, Ragnar had morbid obesitas and was on a strict diet for 1,5-2 months, and he had lost enough weight to be considered healthy again),

- tried to clean out his nostril (his nostril was hidden once again, but it started bleeding, so she stopped directly with trying to open it up),

- examined his excrements (he has a bacterial infection in his body that doesn't react to antibiotics anymore so he's on a 'maintenance dosage' of F10 in his drinking water to keep the bacterial infection at bay) but except for the known bacterial infection nothing eventful is going on.

Everything looked alright so far.

Due to the bacterial infection and his personality, he's really afraid of hands, startled easily and then starts breathing very heavily, almost hyperventilating-like, he was breathing heavily after putting him back in his 'travel bag/cage'.

Everything seemed to be alright.

On our journey back home Ragnar started walking backwards, turning around in circles, screaming, flap hard with his wings, in his travel bag.

I tried contacting our avian vet multiple times but couldn't reach her. The only thing we could do was continuing traveling back home in the hope when we'd arrive home he'd be a bit better.

Back at home when I tried to put him back on his perch, he immediately fell down and continued the twisting and spinning in circles. Due to lack of better words the only way I can describe it is like he looked like he was having spasms/maybe a seizure but he didn't came out of it.

We tried contacting our avian vet a few more times to no avail and decided to contact the emergency vet. Who said to drop by directly so we did. The whole journey we were afraid Ragnar wasn't going to make it, but he did.

While Ragnar was in the care of the emergency vet we decided to wait for an hour to see if the treatments would help. They put him in an oxygen cage, gave him glucose and an anti-seizure medication which didn't helped a lot, we found out after an hour. But he still was reacting to his environment, to hands (anger!) and to us. He's still there mentally. All the time while still spasming/seizuring.

We made the decision to not give up on Ragnar because the emergency vet isn't an avian vet (we thought they were) and tomorrow morning (a few hours from now) an avian vet will examine him.

The emergency vet has been in contact with the avian vet and Ragnar's symptoms are the same as the symptoms of a heavy metal poisoning. So we decided to start treatment for heavy metal poisoning, as they said if it isn't that - it won't harm him.

Tomorrow morning we will hear more from the avian vet and we will be in contact with our own avian vet. Leaving Ragnar there is heartbreaking but we really hope he will pull through.

Normally I don't post about my pets here but I hope someone might read this and maybe know what to do in this situation.

I hope it's okay to tag a few bird blogs people here in the hope someone has an idea what we can do for Ragnar. I really don't want to give up on him.

@flock-talk @parrot-parent @birdhism

[commandercoriandersalamander]

we have to put her to sleep next week and I don't know how to cope with this

[horatioandalice]

Beatrix had a routine vet checkup on Tuesday that turned out to be not so routine. (She is okay now, though!)

As you may know, she had some issues with her liver this past summer that necessitated a diet change and a medication regimen. She's much improved and the vet said that she looks healthy, but wanted to take a blood sample to do a bile acid level check, and it was at that point we discovered that Beatrix probably has some kind of blood clotting disorder. She had bled quite a bit at her blood draw this past summer, but that can be a side effect of liver issues, and she's not currently showing any outward signs of liver issues, so the vet was baffled as to why she bled so much. It took literally 45 minutes to get the bleeding to just slow down. The vet had to put a bandage on it so I could take Beatrix home, and when I took the bandage off when we got home, as the vet instructed, she immediately started bleeding again. And she bled A LOT, like an ALARMING amount for a 113-gram bird. The vet had given her 2 mL of subcutaneous fluids before we left and that may well have saved her life.

She did eventually stop bleeding. She was very tired and groggy yesterday (no wonder, with all the blood she lost), but she has been eating and drinking and pooping normally and demanding comfort scritches, so she will likely be just fine in a couple days. The bad news is that this means we can't do any more blood tests on her, ever, because she could literally bleed to death. The vet said, however, that since we can no longer check her bile acid levels, we will just keep her on her current medication regimen for the rest of her life--it won't hurt her if her liver is normal, but it will help her if the liver issues recur. It just means that hopefully she won't have some other issue come up down the line that would need a blood test to diagnose.

It was a VERY scary Tuesday for all of us and I'm very glad that Beanut pulled through (and is otherwise healthy!) <3