Cute Kitty Trouble

[manlymatt83]

Our small kitty is throwing up about 5-6 times per day. Sometimes it's orange, sometimes it's yellow, but never a normal color. Going to bring her to the vet tomorrow, but any ideas? For what it's worth, her poo smells horrible.

 

[lxskllr]

Some kind of flu like thing? I guess kitties get sick too, but not as much as humans it seems.

 

[bobross419]

Poor kitty... Its probably all those Domos you summoned with your self love Matt...

 

[Genx87]

Feeding her an indoor hairball food?

 

[mizzou]

kitty poo in general smells 10 x worse then adult cat poo

I can't figure it out

 

[manlymatt83]

She's in ICU tonight with liver problems =( She should be there for 2 days, and it'll be about $1800. Ugh.

 

[shocksyde]

$1,800? Yowza.

 

[edro]

$1800!!!

You gotta draw the line somewhere.
We love our kittens, but for $1800, we could easily get a new one and move on.

Once it grows up, it will ignore you and sleep 23 hours a day.

 

[yhelothar]

$1800!!!

You gotta draw the line somewhere.
We love our kittens, but for $1800, we could easily get a new one and move on.

Once it grows up, it will ignore you and sleep 23 hours a day.

I concur! wow!
especially when it's still young and you haven't really grown as much of a bond to it.

 

[lxskllr]

$1800!!!

You gotta draw the line somewhere.
We love our kittens, but for $1800, we could easily get a new one and move on.

Once it grows up, it will ignore you and sleep 23 hours a day.

If I had the money, there's no limit to what I'd spend on my animals. $1,800 is $100 per year for the cat's life, or about 27¢ per day; hardly unreasonable. If you bring a living thing into your house with the promise of caring for it, it's your moral obligation to give it the best care your able to give.

 

[lokiju]

Hmm.

I'm torn as to what I'd do in this situation.

I've had my current two cats for about 5 years now and no doubt I'd pay up to get them better, but if it's a little kitten, I don't know....

 

[TruePaige]

If I had the money, there's no limit to what I'd spend on my animals. $1,800 is $100 per year for the cat's life, or about 27¢ per day; hardly unreasonable. If you bring a living thing into your house with the promise of caring for it, it's your moral obligation to give it the best care your able to give.

Yeah..I have to side with you here, lxskllr. If I can afford to do so I will do so as long as the animal has a chance at a decent quality of life after whatever procedures that need to be performed are performed.

Poor kitty.

 

[BoomerD]

<sigh>
We had to put down one of our cats last Friday. He was almost 14.

He'd been in a nasty cat fight and the first-aid I could offer here at home wasn't near enough. He got a nasty infection and abcess the size of an apple on his head...then half his face "fell off." (all this happened within a week of us finding the injuries)

We took him to the vet who said he'd end up needing several surgeries at a cost of $2000-$3000, and no guarantees that any of that would totally fix the problem.

We opted to have my old friend put to sleep.

 

[Triumph]

If I had the money, there's no limit to what I'd spend on my animals. $1,800 is $100 per year for the cat's life, or about 27¢ per day; hardly unreasonable. If you bring a living thing into your house with the promise of caring for it, it's your moral obligation to give it the best care your able to give.

Why don't you take that $1,800 and instead donate it to charity, where it would help actual people and not a cat?

 

[lxskllr]

Why don't you take that $1,800 and instead donate it to charity, where it would help actual people and not a cat?

I don't like people, but my cats rock ;^)

Edit:
And aside from that, I'm not obligated to help people I don't know. Bringing an animal into my house obligated me to care for it. I "signed" the contract when I brought them home, and I'm required to fulfill my end of the agreement.

 

[surfsatwerk]

She's in ICU tonight with liver problems =( She should be there for 2 days, and it'll be about $1800. Ugh.

I'd let the kitty go and buy a new one for $100 at the humane society.

 

[Red Squirrel]

If I had the money, there's no limit to what I'd spend on my animals. $1,800 is $100 per year for the cat's life, or about 27¢ per day; hardly unreasonable. If you bring a living thing into your house with the promise of caring for it, it's your moral obligation to give it the best care your able to give.

I agree with that fully. Life cannot be given a monetary value. If it costs NN amount to keep a loved one alive, including a pet, then so be it. If my cat had serious issues that required surgery I'd take another loan if I had to.

 

[Linflas]

Lot of disgusting responses in this thread. A pet is a responsibilty you take on for better or worse and if the OP can afford to pay for the care his pet needs then he is right to do it. It is a living creature not a friggin TV where you make the decision based on what you have to pay for a new one.

 

[TruePaige]

Why don't you take that $1,800 and instead donate it to charity, where it would help actual people and not a cat?

Cat I've known and loved for many years > Giving my money away to a charity and hoping it helps someone I've never seen or met.

Do you have pets?

 

[sixone]

She's in ICU tonight with liver problems =( She should be there for 2 days, and it'll be about $1800. Ugh.

Yikes. Poor kitty.

Lot of disgusting responses in this thread. A pet is a responsibilty you take on for better or worse and if the OP can afford to pay for the care his pet needs then he is right to do it. It is a living creature not a friggin TV where you make the decision based on what you have to pay for a new one.

Absolutely.

 

[Genx87]

So exactly what is wrong with it besides "liver" problems? What caused the issue? Will it come back?

 

[surfsatwerk]

Lot of disgusting responses in this thread. A pet is a responsibilty you take on for better or worse and if the OP can afford to pay for the care his pet needs then he is right to do it. It is a living creature not a friggin TV where you make the decision based on what you have to pay for a new one.

Get over yourself. A pet deserves to be treat humanely, that's it. Spending extreme amounts of money trying to preserve its life is just silly.

 

[Gooberlx2]

I'd let the kitty go and buy a new one for $100 at the humane society.

Money considerations aside, liver problems requiring $1800 of treatment in a kitten isn't a good sign. OP needs to ask the vet about the cat's future special needs and how compromised its overall quality of life may become.

 

[Linflas]

Get over yourself. A pet deserves to be treat humanely, that's it. Spending extreme amounts of money trying to preserve its life is just silly.

$1,800.00 is hardly an extreme amount of money. I bet most of the people posting here have spent that and more on computer parts.

 

[surfsatwerk]

$1,800.00 is hardly an extreme amount of money. I bet most of the people posting here have spent that and more on computer parts.

It is an extreme amount of money when the cat could just as easily be dead at the end of the process. Then you put out all that cash for nothing.