Thanks everyone

[clocketpatch]

Pebbles came home a few minutes ago. The plan had been to keep her in my room to prevent her from fighting with the other cats and give her a nice safe place to rest quietly... Her response was to tear out of my room at the soonest opportunity and run around the house like a mad thing making me go white thinking she was going to tear out her stitches. Then we did the whole: "you will take this pill it is good for you" "No-no-no-no I will not take this pill!" "Yes you will! Haha! Got it in! ...oh wait, you spit it out and covered it with your paw."

The vet showed us a picture of her uterus compared with a normal cat's. Holy shit. To give some perspective - she weighed nearly nine pounds going in and only seven pounds coming out. Apparently the infection was completely contained which was why it didn't show up on blood work and wasn't bothering her, but if her spay had been a few days later it could have ruptured and killed her. My mother, having seen the picture, is determined to get the other cat fixed while I'm gone.

Little miracle kitty is now sitting under her favourite chair glaring at me. Thanks for giving her good thoughts.

Comments

[akashasheiress.livejournal.com]

Go kitty! I wish I could get Olga spayed, but she's eleven years old and hasn't been in a car since she was a kitten. I guess sedatives are an option...

[clocketpatch]

If you can manage it, her being freaked out in a car and mad at you after is worth it for her not going through this. I can't imagine how uncomfortable Pebbles was with all of that inside her. You might want to call up a vet to ask what the risk/benefits would be since Olga's older. The vet said that it's not overly common in cats and that Pebbles was strange since she wasn't acting sick given how infected she was. The usual symptoms are lethargy, thirst, and licking at themselves, so if you ever notice Olga doing any of that get her to the vet stat.

[akashasheiress.livejournal.com]

Oh, I will. She's a highly odd cat. Doesn't like being held, for one (and, no, it's not for a lack of handling when she was a kitten, she's just weird) and she's not fond of strangers. She does seem to be happy so far (before I left, almost a month ago), but I know that cats don't tend to be fuzzy when they're in pain or discomfort.

[ladymercury-10.livejournal.com]

I'm glad your kitty is doing better!

[clocketpatch]

You, me and the kitty! Thanks.

[stellastars]

Glad to hear she's home and doing well. *hugs*

[clocketpatch]

Thanks. She's been going around like there's nothing wrong at all.

[garpu.livejournal.com]

Good to hear...here's hoping it convinced your mom. I've got a ton of relatives who're like that, too. (That vets are a waste and pets are lower than livestock.)

[clocketpatch]

It's not so much that she thinks vets are a waste; she does bring old man cat in for his check-ups. But she's got this deep-rooted belief that animals mostly will make themselves better and it's best not to mess with them. She's really attached to the other little girl kitty (she's more my mom's cat than mine and always has been) and after seeing those pictures she's making plans to get her fixed at the first opportunity to prevent this from happening to her. Thanks for the support and boo at your relatives.

[pitry.livejournal.com]

Hooray super!kitty! :D

[clocketpatch]

She's such a trooper. :D

[persiflage-1.livejournal.com]

Heh. I can tell you from long cat-sharing experience (you don't own cats, you share their lives) that they're tough little critters.

Comfort yourself with the thought you go to her in time.

[clocketpatch]

It's so scary thinking what a few days difference could have done, but very relieved that she's now snuggling with the other cats. You definitely don't own them. I confess to being completely at their beck and call.

[persiflage-1.livejournal.com]

Of course you are! Humans are cats' minions! :D

Glad she is safe and snuggling...

[kaffy_r]

I'm so happy to hear that she's doing better!

[clocketpatch]

Thank you.

[purple_bug.livejournal.com]

I'm glad they got it in time, and that your mum seems convinced enough of the severity of the situation to get the other cat spayed as well.
My gf's budgie had a similar situation the other week - a lump on her abdomen was dismissed by vets as a 'fatty tumour' and a 'painless hernia' for weeks, if not months, when my gf suspected the poor girl was egg-bound (unable to lay an egg which is stuck inside her). When they eventually took her in for surgery, as the lump was so big it kept catching on things and bleeding everywhere (and birdie bleeding is a major deal, since they have really fast circulation and not a lot of blood), do you know what it turned out to be? THREE eggs stuck inside her. So they gave her a hysterectomy to avoid any future egg issues, since she'd had issues with being egg-bound before.

So, anyway, glad to hear your kitty is going to be okay :)

[clocketpatch]

Female birds scare the crap out of me with all of their egg issues. I've heard so many horror stories. It's good to hear that your girlfriend's budgie finally got the treatment she needed.

[purple_bug.livejournal.com]

I know. It's probably a good thing the other girl seems to be infertile :) She lays tiny squishy eggs that hardly ever cause a problem.
The budgie in question seems to be doing fine now, climbing all over things - just like your cat :) Sabrina had to let her out of the isolation cage eventually because her mate was going mental being able to hear her but not see her - they have this adorable but heart-rending way of calling for each other, it's a bit like a baby's cry in that it's very difficult to ignore.
I'm glad the six other budgies are boys - even if one of them is a bit confused about the fact, at least trans-girl birds can't lay eggs :)

[thisbluespirit]

Aw, that's good to hear! I was just starting to catch up with my flist, and you've got back with the good news before I could offer sympathy for the bad. ;-)

(And also: do not blame yourself; I read all that, and really, you shouldn't. But now she's a bit better, hopefully that doesn't need saying).

But, yay, miracle kitty! :-) (And an email will be coming your way shortly, btw! I just keep getting distracted by random things, including occasional actual rl.)

[clocketpatch]

I don't think I'll ever stop - I did have enough money to get her fixed before this and I didn't. D:

But now that I know this can happen I'm never having an unspayed pet again and will be trying to spread the information around.

Email!! Thank you so much! I hope that the distractions are all good things. :D

[dbskyler.livejournal.com]

Tearing around the room, spitting out her pill, and glaring at you from under her chair? Sounds like a healthy, normal cat!

Give yourself credit for getting her checked out, and for agreeing to get her spayed at what turned out to be the exact right time. There's no other way you could have known she was ill -- even her blood work was normal, for god's sake. Glad to hear your mom will get the other kitty spayed, and super glad that Pebbles is doing well!

[clocketpatch]

If she weren't missing half her fur you wouldn't know a thing had happened to her. I don't think I'd be nearly such a trooper. My mom is now acting like the other cat could explode at any given moment.

[jjpor.livejournal.com]

Very glad to hear it. Cats do seem to be a bit more resilient sometimes than you might think. And as for comical adventures trying to medicate cats...oh, I've got some stories... ;D

[clocketpatch]

I'm pretty pro with the pills thanks to old man cat's problems, but this little girl was SNEAKY. I was sure it was in - she swallowed and the pill was nowhere to be seen. Then she lifts up her paw and gives me this look like "Oh yeah, I win."

Her resilience is just amazing me after seeing those pictures and the size of the scar on her.

[librarylover82.livejournal.com]

I have never heard of this condition before. Minerva and I send our best to Pebbles! It sounds like she is recovering quickly, if she can outrun you, and trick you into thinking she took her medicine.

[clocketpatch]

Neither had I and now I want to share about its existence so that no one else's cat has to go through this. If it hadn't been caught she would have died and we would have had no clue why. Apparently it is super common in female dogs, but less so in cats.

She's a little trooper.

[antennapedia.livejournal.com]

Yay for cantankerous opinionated tough kitties who survive and spit out their pills! A huge relief for you all. Except maybe her.

[clocketpatch]

She doesn't seem to notice at all now that a few days have passed. She keeps trying to get belly rubs which I can't give her for obvious reasons. She's been out-witted on the pill front though - tinned tuna is a glorious, wonderful thing.