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EDIT: Sorry this got a little long.
Well some of you may have seen the post where I mentioned I had a cat story so here goes..........
My girlfriend got two kittens for her kids (age almost 8 and almost 14) and also to help keep her yappy ass dog company during the day.
One of the kittens was hanging out being a kitten when a bad accident occurred, I wasn't there but this is what happened.
My girlie girl had one of those floor to ceiling shower contraptions that has several baskets on a tension rod. It was put together but not yet installed, it was leaning against a wall. The kitten jumped onto her bed, then onto her dresser, then into the top basket. Her legs went through the basket and the pole toppled over with her unable to protect her 9 week old self. She hit the tile floor head first and her legs got bent terribly. She was rushed to the emergency vet and checked out. No broken bones but very bad sprains on three legs and a kitty concussion that was pretty bad. She was a mess.
She was going to need around the clock care for a couple of days and since I was off for the next two days and was already home from work the evening this happened........I put the S on my chest and took up the task.
To give you an idea of how bad it was she could not walk and was moving like she had a serious neurological disorder. Just writhing around, flopping actually, as she tried to adjust herself on a blanket I had her on.
So while my girl stayed here at my place I ran out to get some pedialyte and liquid milk like cat treat since she was going to be fed by syringe for what turned out to be almost two and a half days. She also had pain reliever in pre-measured syringes that I had to give her every 8 hours.
The first night I had her on my chest and held her while I laid on the coach. She peed on me to show me how grateful she was haha. But since she wasn't able to take a lot of fluid it was a small amount. Altogether I got peed on 5 times betwen that night and the next 48 or so hours. Because she couldn't walk I was carrying her around with me when she wasn't sleeping so every now and then I felt the warm of her friendship if you know what I mean. After a couple of days she was able to pick herself up and wobble around but wouldn't eat wet food, just the cat milk treat, and I was still giving her as much pedialyte as I could.
At the same time she was coming out of the fog from hitting her head, but still in pain so she was still getting medicine for that. Side note it was an opioid based liquid. She seemed to be over that issue in about 4 days. However she took a few more days to be able to break into a light trot, clearly bouncing back but still hurt. When she was first walking she was not letting her right front paw touch the floor, but it was a big plus to see her moving. Since she couldn't clean herself I used damp paper towels to give her kitty sponge baths a couple of times. You know me, I don't like a dirty smelly kitty LOL.
A few days later she was moving around mostly like a kitten but not jumping very much........and boy did her appetite finally kick in, which was good because she was 9 weeks old when this happened and had lost a noticeable amount of her body mass in the handful of days she was only taking liquids. A day or so later she was up and going and over the next few days got back to 100%. This whole process went from later one Wednesday evening two weeks ago until yesterday morning when my girlfriend took her home after crashing here. So now she's back home with the kids and her other kitten buddy and everyone is happy.
I have to tell you it was something to see her come back to 100% from how bad off she was when she arrived. I was worried there was going to be permanent damage but she is back to perfectly normal.
Well some of you may have seen the post where I mentioned I had a cat story so here goes..........
My girlfriend got two kittens for her kids (age almost 8 and almost 14) and also to help keep her yappy ass dog company during the day.
One of the kittens was hanging out being a kitten when a bad accident occurred, I wasn't there but this is what happened.
My girlie girl had one of those floor to ceiling shower contraptions that has several baskets on a tension rod. It was put together but not yet installed, it was leaning against a wall. The kitten jumped onto her bed, then onto her dresser, then into the top basket. Her legs went through the basket and the pole toppled over with her unable to protect her 9 week old self. She hit the tile floor head first and her legs got bent terribly. She was rushed to the emergency vet and checked out. No broken bones but very bad sprains on three legs and a kitty concussion that was pretty bad. She was a mess.
She was going to need around the clock care for a couple of days and since I was off for the next two days and was already home from work the evening this happened........I put the S on my chest and took up the task.
To give you an idea of how bad it was she could not walk and was moving like she had a serious neurological disorder. Just writhing around, flopping actually, as she tried to adjust herself on a blanket I had her on.
So while my girl stayed here at my place I ran out to get some pedialyte and liquid milk like cat treat since she was going to be fed by syringe for what turned out to be almost two and a half days. She also had pain reliever in pre-measured syringes that I had to give her every 8 hours.
The first night I had her on my chest and held her while I laid on the coach. She peed on me to show me how grateful she was haha. But since she wasn't able to take a lot of fluid it was a small amount. Altogether I got peed on 5 times betwen that night and the next 48 or so hours. Because she couldn't walk I was carrying her around with me when she wasn't sleeping so every now and then I felt the warm of her friendship if you know what I mean. After a couple of days she was able to pick herself up and wobble around but wouldn't eat wet food, just the cat milk treat, and I was still giving her as much pedialyte as I could.
At the same time she was coming out of the fog from hitting her head, but still in pain so she was still getting medicine for that. Side note it was an opioid based liquid. She seemed to be over that issue in about 4 days. However she took a few more days to be able to break into a light trot, clearly bouncing back but still hurt. When she was first walking she was not letting her right front paw touch the floor, but it was a big plus to see her moving. Since she couldn't clean herself I used damp paper towels to give her kitty sponge baths a couple of times. You know me, I don't like a dirty smelly kitty LOL.
A few days later she was moving around mostly like a kitten but not jumping very much........and boy did her appetite finally kick in, which was good because she was 9 weeks old when this happened and had lost a noticeable amount of her body mass in the handful of days she was only taking liquids. A day or so later she was up and going and over the next few days got back to 100%. This whole process went from later one Wednesday evening two weeks ago until yesterday morning when my girlfriend took her home after crashing here. So now she's back home with the kids and her other kitten buddy and everyone is happy.
I have to tell you it was something to see her come back to 100% from how bad off she was when she arrived. I was worried there was going to be permanent damage but she is back to perfectly normal.
