LauraFrog
Fish Gatherer
Well my cat Calli (5yo spayed female, domestic longhair aka fluffy moggie) has been pretty badly injured in a wallaby snare. Had to rush out of school yesterday to take her to the vet. The snare had settled around her hindquarters and they had to anaesthetise it to take it off. (Took three of them to hold her on the table long enough to get the pentothal into her and the endo tube in.) Then I got in trouble for watching at the windows so I had to content myself with listening at the door for the breaths - whenever they have an animal on isoflurane they have them on a respiration monitor.
Well they got it off. I'm very lucky. If it had settled higher, it might have ruptured her spleen. Any lower and it would have ruptured her bladder. Either would have killed her. The wire cut off part of the blood supply to her hindlimbs. They don't think there's any permanent blood vessel damage. We're hoping there's no permanent nerve damage, the signs point to that being okay. They let us in when they'd got the snare off and carried on like we'd be all upset they had to shave off quite a lot of fur. I managed to get a glimpse of most of the monitors. Breathing normal (3 secs) heart rate 134 (but they had the pulse oxi on the ear, no doubt thought it would be too 'distressing' to us to see it on the tongue where it's accurate - I didn't dare move it). She was on a Hartmann's drip (sodium lactate/ringer's lactate). It was running in pretty slowly. If they'd suspected serious internal injuries or peritonitis they would have been running in the hartmann's as fast as they could.
She's still in hospital on a drip. Apparently she can use a litter tray and stand up, so I'm hopeful that we get her home some time tonight. What they're worried abut is the blood supply that was cut off to a big section of mammary fat. If that has died, it's going to mean major surgery. So I'm pretty keen to keep her inside and keep a close eye on it.
Does anybody here know how to nurse a cat? Because it looks like I'll be doing a fair bit of it.
Poor baby... I hope she's okay. I got NO sleep last night... since 5 AM I was sitting up counting the minutes until I could ring the vet and demand to know how she was...
Well they got it off. I'm very lucky. If it had settled higher, it might have ruptured her spleen. Any lower and it would have ruptured her bladder. Either would have killed her. The wire cut off part of the blood supply to her hindlimbs. They don't think there's any permanent blood vessel damage. We're hoping there's no permanent nerve damage, the signs point to that being okay. They let us in when they'd got the snare off and carried on like we'd be all upset they had to shave off quite a lot of fur. I managed to get a glimpse of most of the monitors. Breathing normal (3 secs) heart rate 134 (but they had the pulse oxi on the ear, no doubt thought it would be too 'distressing' to us to see it on the tongue where it's accurate - I didn't dare move it). She was on a Hartmann's drip (sodium lactate/ringer's lactate). It was running in pretty slowly. If they'd suspected serious internal injuries or peritonitis they would have been running in the hartmann's as fast as they could.
She's still in hospital on a drip. Apparently she can use a litter tray and stand up, so I'm hopeful that we get her home some time tonight. What they're worried abut is the blood supply that was cut off to a big section of mammary fat. If that has died, it's going to mean major surgery. So I'm pretty keen to keep her inside and keep a close eye on it.
Does anybody here know how to nurse a cat? Because it looks like I'll be doing a fair bit of it.
Poor baby... I hope she's okay. I got NO sleep last night... since 5 AM I was sitting up counting the minutes until I could ring the vet and demand to know how she was...
. hope she makes a full recovery as 2 nursing a cat well dependnt on wot is need as in bathing wounds etc etc then vet should give all the info there ur job really is 2 make her as comfortable as poss nice comfortable bed on the floor 2 not make her jump 2 anythink keep her wrm but i dont think that be a problem in oz lol and give plenty of love just 2 reasure her 
