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Re: Advice please - sad news
« Reply #61 on: January 03, 2011, 03:27:25 AM »
So sorry Desley :(

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Re: Advice please - sad news
« Reply #60 on: January 02, 2011, 18:53:05 PM »
Agreed. One thing we all know is how much you love your oldies - you would NEVER do anything that you felt would upset them. :hug:

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Re: Advice please - sad news
« Reply #59 on: January 02, 2011, 11:46:45 AM »
Agreed. One thing we all know is how much you love your oldies - you would NEVER do anything that you felt would upset them. :hug:




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Re: Advice please - sad news
« Reply #58 on: December 31, 2010, 21:02:04 PM »
I think part of it might have been my fault for bringing the carrier into the room, maybe Molly is waiting for it to come out and be her turn - she does go for her annual bloods next month, and obviously she has cancer.

Please don't blame yourself for anything. If Molly is forward-thinking enough to understand that the carrier meant something different to usual, she is clever enough to sense you love her and Zi to the moon and back.  :hug: Many cats do not like change, but I bet Molly would feel a lot more unsettled in a home that is not as full of love as yours.  :Luv2:
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Re: Advice please - sad news
« Reply #57 on: December 31, 2010, 15:41:40 PM »
Sorry to hear this Desley :hug:

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Re: Advice please - sad news
« Reply #56 on: December 31, 2010, 12:56:31 PM »
I think part of it might have been my fault for bringing the carrier into the room, maybe Molly is waiting for it to come out and be her turn - she does go for her annual bloods next month, and obviously she has cancer.
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Re: Advice please - sad news
« Reply #55 on: December 31, 2010, 12:52:37 PM »
Poor Molly, she will have known Zi was poorly and maybe the loss has made her aware of her own mortality – who knows what cats think.  I’m sure you’ll be giving her extra cuddles. :hug:

Cats’ reactions to loss always seem to take me by surprise.  Siblings Ginger and Blackst’n were very close and yet when we lost Blackst’n to an RTA  Ginger spent a day looking for her then got on with life.  On the other hand Rosie, who had lived quite happily as an only cat with my mum until mum came to live with me, went into a long decline when Ginger died, despite the fact that they only tolerated each other at best.  She didn’t perk up again until we got Korky two months later.

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Re: Advice please - sad news
« Reply #54 on: December 31, 2010, 12:46:54 PM »
 :'( I'm so sad to read this  :hug:

RIP sweet little Zi xx
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Re: Advice please - sad news
« Reply #53 on: December 31, 2010, 11:32:19 AM »
Thanks everyone - Molly has been acting stranger than I thought she would have done, to say they didn't like each other!!
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Re: Advice please - sad news
« Reply #52 on: December 31, 2010, 09:23:00 AM »
Sorry Des  :hug:

I know how hard it is having to make the decision and hoping they will rally  :'(
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Re: Advice please - sad news
« Reply #51 on: December 30, 2010, 19:48:06 PM »
Sorry to hear this.

Sad news,  but sometimes it just has to be this way.

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Re: Advice please - sad news
« Reply #50 on: December 30, 2010, 19:30:53 PM »
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Re: Advice please - sad news
« Reply #49 on: December 30, 2010, 19:23:47 PM »
So very sorry Desley - thinking of you  :hug:

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Re: Advice please - sad news
« Reply #48 on: December 30, 2010, 18:45:46 PM »
So sorry Desley  :(  :hug: :hug:

I'm so pleased you had another Christmas together, but its such a shame she deteriorated so quickly, it does sound like your timing was just right in letting her go  :hug:

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Re: Advice please - sad news
« Reply #47 on: December 30, 2010, 17:58:42 PM »
Im so sorry Desley
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Re: Advice please - sad news
« Reply #46 on: December 30, 2010, 17:09:37 PM »
So sorry for your loss  :hug: :hug: :hug: :hug:
Zi had a wonderful home with you .

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Re: Advice please - sad news
« Reply #45 on: December 30, 2010, 16:41:24 PM »
So sorry for your loss Desley at least she had Christmas with you :hug:
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Re: Advice please - sad news
« Reply #44 on: December 30, 2010, 16:08:27 PM »
sorry to hear about poor Zi  :hug:
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Re: Advice please - sad news
« Reply #43 on: December 30, 2010, 15:59:01 PM »
So sorry Des  :hug: :hug:

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Re: Advice please - sad news
« Reply #42 on: December 30, 2010, 15:46:25 PM »
 :'( Sorry to read this Desley, I hope it comforts you to know you have given her a last special gift.
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Re: Advice please - sad news
« Reply #41 on: December 30, 2010, 14:16:29 PM »
Oh Desley. :care: You and Zi were lucky to have found each other, and she knew so much love with you.

RIP Zi.




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Re: Advice please - sad news
« Reply #40 on: December 30, 2010, 14:13:32 PM »
I am so sorry to hear of your loss. You got the timing just right sweetie.
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Re: Advice please - sad news
« Reply #39 on: December 30, 2010, 14:06:19 PM »
Desley, i am so sorry. :hug: :hug:
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Re: Advice please - sad news
« Reply #38 on: December 30, 2010, 14:01:54 PM »
Thanks guys.
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Re: Advice please - sad news
« Reply #37 on: December 30, 2010, 13:53:53 PM »
So very sad  :hug: :hug:

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Re: Advice please
« Reply #36 on: December 30, 2010, 13:51:33 PM »
I'm so sorry to hear this Desley but as always you put her feelings first and let her go with dignity.  My heart goes out to you.  :hug:  :hug:

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Re: Advice please
« Reply #35 on: December 30, 2010, 13:48:51 PM »
Very sorry to hear this Desley, hadn't seen this before and didn't know she was so poorly  :hug:

What I do know is that she was very lucky to have found you and had such a wonderful retirement home  :hug:

RIP Zi, safe and sound at the Bridge by now xx

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Re: Advice please
« Reply #34 on: December 30, 2010, 12:58:41 PM »
So sorry Desley  :hug: :hug: :hug:

RIP little Zi - no more pain and run free at the bridge  :'(

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Re: Advice please
« Reply #33 on: December 30, 2010, 12:35:32 PM »
FF - she has gingivitis that the vet suspects is calici related.

I let her go this morning - while she had been fairly bright most of yesterday, her limp started really flaring up  in the evening, and I had to shut her in the bathroom with her tea for an hour to get her to eat something, so I made the appointment this morning. As soon as the vet shaved her leg, he said her tendons were collapsing, which explains why she has been walking funny - he also managed to get a look in her mouth, and it was incredibly red - but she has had no Metacam for 2 days, so the inflammation was getting worse. She went part way through the injection, so very quick, so i think I got the timing right. RIP little one.
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Re: Advice please
« Reply #32 on: December 29, 2010, 16:20:50 PM »
Is there any possibility she has a problem with her mouth? This might account for being reluctant to eat and have her head touched.
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Re: Advice please
« Reply #31 on: December 28, 2010, 19:06:09 PM »
Thanks guys - Gill, i would need to give her too many treats to do that, and there is too much of a risk of her not getting a full dose, so she would still struggle.
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Re: Advice please
« Reply #30 on: December 28, 2010, 15:24:07 PM »
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Re: Advice please
« Reply #29 on: December 28, 2010, 14:40:02 PM »
Have you tried putting a mini bit of metacam on a treat? IKf she still eats it them put the rest in mini bits on other traets  :hug: :hug: :hug:

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Re: Advice please
« Reply #28 on: December 28, 2010, 11:26:10 AM »
poor Zi and poor you :hug:

at least she can enjoy her treats now  :(
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Re: Advice please
« Reply #27 on: December 28, 2010, 10:40:56 AM »
Last night was a really bad night, I had to climb under the computer desk again, and tried to fuss her first, she was fine with that till she saw the syringe, and immediately moved her head to make it awkward to get to her mouth, clamped her mouth shut, and kept moving her head away from me. While i eventually managed it, I have decided to accept she has had enough of me syringing it into her, i wont give her any tonight, which means I have to let her go tom/Thurs. She hasn't eaten that much overnight or this morning, unless you give her treats, which she can't live on (and they are 10% higher in protein than her renal food, so will put her kidneys under a lot of pressure). She was limping again yesterday too. It is a year tomorrow since we saw the nice vet, although i had suspected it prior to that, so I think we have done amazingly well to get this far, there have been so many times i have thought that I wasn't being fair to her.
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Re: Advice please
« Reply #26 on: December 26, 2010, 11:05:55 AM »
Zi was really resisting her Metacam last night, the night before wasn't as bad, she was just in an awkward place, so it took 3 attempts, but last night took about 6, she is just staying in an awkward place and turning her head so i can't get to her mouth, even once I had convinced her to get out of the awkward place, it still took another two attempts. I really dont know how much longer I can do this to her, but if I dont, I have to let her go, and she seems fairly content apart from it, but she is still reluctant to have her head touched, as she is associating it with being medicated, or her eyes cleaned.
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Re: Advice please
« Reply #25 on: December 21, 2010, 12:50:23 PM »
Have been thinking of Zi Desley and hope she's going to be ok  :hug:
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Re: Advice please
« Reply #24 on: December 21, 2010, 12:45:55 PM »
Thanks - my sis is coming round soon, she hasn't seen her for a while, so I will get her to look at her, she will notice differences more than I do.
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Re: Advice please
« Reply #23 on: December 21, 2010, 12:38:27 PM »
 :hug:  :hug: i hope she continues to improve Desley.

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Re: Advice please
« Reply #22 on: December 21, 2010, 12:22:46 PM »
Well, she has eaten a bit more today and stopped preventing me from stroking her head. Her legs have been fine since, but I did see her yowling at the water bowl again last night, I know her kidneys are worse than her last bloods 6 months ago - the irony is that I was going to make an appointment last week to have her bloods rechecked, but now it doesn't seem worth it. I have made an appointment for tomorrow just in case, as I can always cancel if she continues to perk up, unfortunately the vet I prefer is off till the New Year. 
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