When I took Misty to the Vet's for His Blood's to be taken, I also asked the vet to do a general Health check,
eye's, Teeth, Heart etc, etc a kinda Cat M.O.T.
His Heart is Good, otherwise very Healthy, apart from early
stages of CRF
But she did say He'd a slight build up of Plaque on His Molar's, but that it was not bad enough
to be concerned, and at His age did not feel it necessary to put Misty under general anesthetic to have them
cleaned. there is alway's an amount of Risk involved
My Hamish had alway's bad plaque build up and had, had his teeth done three times, He never showed any
discomfort, Hamish went to the Bridge with All His Teeth, but the vet did think he had a molar that may have
been causing him pain and thought that was the reason He'd stopped eating and drinking
anyhow, 2 year's ago Misty Started Grinding His teeth and pulling the hair out of a sheepskin rug?? I took Him
to the vet, and His teeth were needing cleaned, he ended up with one extraction
but the grinding stopped
and didn't pull hair from sheepskin rug no more
I awoke this morning to that awful sound again, and he
did it for a minute b4 stopping.
I have done a search on tinternet and the most common reason for grinding is problem's in the mouth, Teeth, Gum's etc
there were suggestion's of suppling biscuit's to help remove plaque build up, and although I do know you get Renal biscuit's
Misty wouldn't eat them ( He Hasn't eaten biscuit's for a long time, even though he still has the option, " Fresh bowl of biccy's bside wet food "
but I am Now getting paranoid that the same problem that befell Hamish, may happen to Misty
Misty is still eating His Renal food, the first day he finished 2 pouches
but since then has only eaten about 1 a day ( still giving Him 2
pouches but have to discard stale remain's at night/morning for Fresh
I dont know what to do mainly because of the risk involved with older Cat's being put under anesthetic
I was supposed to take Misty back to vet's this thursday for a 9am appointment to have more blood taken, and was going to tell them
about the grinding !! but as some of you may know my work had been phoning me all week about going offshore to a job, but then
would phone back to say it's been cancelled
But I now know for Definate I am going offshore on monday, so that's Misty's appointment
out the window
have made another for Tuesday the 20th, But know I will worry about Him while I'm away
I was just wondering if any other people on here have had similar experiances and maybe mouth problem's weren't alway's the cause ??
Misty isn't doing it all the time and has only done it this once since 2 years ago, but because of previous experiance, I am really concerned