Show Off Your Pets 2024

Chere Khan (aka Munchkin) enjoying the sun ...


Hoover Van Dyson (aka Van) enjoying the sun ...

 

Lovely cats @Victoria.

 

Thank you Pattie. Here they are together a few minutes ago. The patio will be pressure washed when Ben the Gardener comes on the 13th!

 

Thank you both, i watch a lot of YouTube videos and that one came up as a recommendation.

 

We've been to hell & back with our cat Murphy over the past week. On the Thursday before Easter he suddenly went comatose on his bed in the evening and wouldn't move. He was fine earlier that day. He hadn't moved by the next morning so we just assumed he was bunged up (as occasionally happens) and went out for the day. No movement again when we got back at the end of the day.

Luckily we were able to get in at the vets on Easter Saturday and they did a full blood test which showed severe kidney disfunction consistent with poisoning. As it was then Easter holidays he had to be admitted to the local vet hospital to be put on a drip and flush his system through. We had twice-daily updates and picked him up on Easter Monday evening when we were presented with a £2,400 bill! He'd been attended to by at least three vets and they seemed to suggest it was his pancreas that was the problem. We're still none the wiser about what caused this or even if he was poisoned at all.

Anyway this last week has involved daily visits to our vets in a nearby town and protecting our house from his constant diarrhoea. Luckily he'd remembered how to use a cat tray, which we'd not been using since he was a kitten. Finally they have put him on antibiotics and given us a potassium supplement (the only deficiency indicated by his latest blood tests).

Thankfully it now looks as though we've turned the corner. He's started eating properly again and going into the garden to the toilet (so no more smelly cat trays). He's had a bath and it didn't take him long to get back into bad habits. He's only 10 so we're looking forward to a few more years yet!

 

Oh @LunarSea..what a beauty..so glad he has turned a corner...they are such a worry aren't they.x

 

They certainly love the new lawn Woo. Looks great. Well Done.

 

I'm glad your cat is all right now @LunarSea

 

Glad that your cat is ok now @LunarSea

 

@LunarSea That must have been terrifying. We've been having health issues with our cat for several months and it's been awful. He's an incredibly regal looking chap, glad to hear that he's on the mend

 

Not impressed with the photographer intruding

 

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