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Post by lotsofcats on Mar 14, 2014 9:49:23 GMT
So pleased that Carlotta is okay, that must be a relief. Lovely photos of the 2 cats, they are both gorgeous. I love their names, I like names that are different (as you can see by some of mine!.
Good luck with the raw feeding and I hope that it stops the vomiting.
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Post by smilesbetter on Mar 14, 2014 10:07:04 GMT
Thanks lotsofcats she hasn't been sick so much recently as we know what foods sets her off but pretty much every food we've feed her except a few flavours of this one has made her vomit, I think it's the main reason her last owners got rid of her. Also the vet found out she has a gum problem and very bed looking back teeth which could be another reason for the sickness, but the vet didn't think a raw diet would make that any worse and is really keep for me to change her over. Mieze is the German equivalent of "pussy cat" haha, apparently her "owner" had a Polish girlfriend when he got her and asked what they should call her, he said Mieze as a joke and she liked it haha! My German teacher says Carlotta is a royal name haha, any time I mention her he does a bow or some other funny thing in relation to her being a queen! She certainly acts like one haha so very fitting. I'm afraid to say that the cats I've named myself (these two were both adopted at 6+) have very average cat names haha, Bramble and Smudgie I think Carlotta is feeling a bit funny after being stuffed into a box, carried up the road, manhandled by the vet and the assistant, blood taken, sniffed in the face by Rosa etc haha, she keeps miaowing at me and she's been going around sniffing everything in the house to make sure it hasn't moved since she was gone haha. I expected her to go hide somewhere for a bit but she hasn't stopped moving since we got in an hour ago!
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Post by tonib on Mar 14, 2014 15:10:17 GMT
Glad to hear her weight is nearer 3 Kg, what a great relief. Scales can be a pain! Good luck with the raw diet & the results of the allergy test.
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Post by smilesbetter on Mar 14, 2014 19:56:50 GMT
Got the results! The vet said everything is normal, except her thyroid which is "on the verge of not being okay", he said not all the tests are done yet (no mention of allergy ones) and that I. To phone back on Tuesday to let him know if she's any better up after her shots (which I didn't realise she'd gotten, was keeping Rosa occupied while the vet did all the stuff with Carlotta's leg). I didn't notice her being too bad apart from the occasional vomit (normal for her) before but shall see! She certainly seems different today but might just have been because of her trip out of the house so shall see what she's like over the weekend and hopefully no more vomiting. Stuck a little bit of raw meat in their food today and she seems to have eaten hers. We tried giving her raw meat before and she absolutely refused to go near it so we're having to take it super slow.
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Post by tonib on Mar 14, 2014 23:19:25 GMT
Hope all goes well with Carlotta over the weekend, may well have been upset by the vet manhandling & the smells there, also they can be a bit funny after their shots.
Odd about not being told about the thyroid test, perhaps the allergy test take longer. If you didn't know her shots were done then presumably they didn't up date your copy of her vaccination records - do they maintain the same sort of vacs cards in Germany as they do here?
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Post by smilesbetter on Mar 15, 2014 13:50:21 GMT
Hope all goes well with Carlotta over the weekend, may well have been upset by the vet manhandling & the smells there, also they can be a bit funny after their shots. Odd about not being told about the thyroid test, perhaps the allergy test take longer. If you didn't know her shots were done then presumably they didn't up date your copy of her vaccination records - do they maintain the same sort of vacs cards in Germany as they do here? Thanks! Yeah they have pet "vaccination passports" here (separate from the pet passport), it wasn't Carlotta's vaccinations she got though, she doesn't need them for a few months yet, it was something to help her because she's sick so often, but I'm not sure what. My German is okay but I don't understand 100% so she may have said and I missed it. I usually bring my man with me as a safety guard incase I get stuck or miss anything but he's on holiday ATM haha. The vets seem to automatically test all the organs in the blood (no idea how they can tell how organs are doing based on one blood sample haha) when they test for something else, they did the same thing when Mieze had to get a blood test recently to see why she was vomiting loads and drinking too much water. The thing they were testing for was fine but they found she had funny blood cells and needs to get retested in a few months because they could go from being a bit funny to abnormal and problematic, or it could have just been something affecting them that day apparently. I don't really know anything about blood tests haha so it's all a bit over my head.
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Post by tonib on Mar 15, 2014 17:17:37 GMT
Interesting I don't know much about blood tests in this country as luckily never had to have any for our cats although did once pay for them for an ill stray we took to the vets - sadly too late - FIV or FLV (can't remember which now) & going down hill fast Hope Mieze's retests are OK.
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Post by smilesbetter on Mar 15, 2014 17:27:18 GMT
Aww the poor cat, at least you tried though! And thanks, me too. The vet said it could mean anything up to cancer but hopefully she's okay, and if she does have anything then we'll get through it. She's losing weight now (She was moooorbidly obese for such a small cat when we got her) so if she does have anything bad then she'll have more of a chance of beating it than before. I do wonder if i should get her pet insurance but she's not my cat at the moment. its a bit complicated with her owner, if he'd just hurry up and say definitely that she's mine or that he is going to take her back (Which I think would be cruel) then I could get all these things sorted.
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Post by tonib on Mar 15, 2014 18:32:12 GMT
Trouble is smilesbetter after Mieze's test it might be difficult to get pet insurance to cover anything that is inked to the results. Yes it was sad it'd been hanging around intermittently for a couple of weeks. It was largish (well tall as it was losing weight), white with just one black blob on its sides, so friendly. We (& a neighbour) did feed it a few times & brought in in finally but it was so hungry & lethargic then we took it to our vets at a weekend, where it was put on drips & heat pads but they phoned me at work on the Monday to say what they'd found & that its organs were shutting down & what their suggestion was. So there was me agreeing with them at work (in a predominantly male office) tears rolling down my face. Thought about it afterwards we were lucky our cat at the time didn't catch anything. We think it was a lost/abandoned cat rather than feral so I fee sorry for the owners (if lost) that hey never got to know what happened to their pet - it wasn't chipped.
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Post by smilesbetter on Mar 15, 2014 20:11:41 GMT
Trouble is smilesbetter after Mieze's test it might be difficult to get pet insurance to cover anything that is inked to the results. Yes it was sad it'd been hanging around intermittently for a couple of weeks. It was largish (well tall as it was losing weight), white with just one black blob on its sides, so friendly. We (& a neighbour) did feed it a few times & brought in in finally but it was so hungry & lethargic then we took it to our vets at a weekend, where it was put on drips & heat pads but they phoned me at work on the Monday to say what they'd found & that its organs were shutting down & what their suggestion was. So there was me agreeing with them at work (in a predominantly male office) tears rolling down my face. Thought about it afterwards we were lucky our cat at the time didn't catch anything. We think it was a lost/abandoned cat rather than feral so I fee sorry for the owners (if lost) that hey never got to know what happened to their pet - it wasn't chipped. Awwww poor thing, well at least it had you to care for it, so sad though! What a horrible disease
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