Emergency

I had to take Frank to the emergency vet today. This morning, he was
straining on the litterbox, then a little gas escaped and two small,
hard poops. Oh, I thought, he is constipated. I broke out the paraffin
oil. Took some in a dropper, and had a huge fight with Frank before I
managed to squirt a little in his mouth. He screamed like a banshee and
jerked around so it was hard to get the dropper in his mouth.

Some time later, I noticed he was holding his mouth open. He refused to
eat, and as the day wore on his jaw swelled up. I finally called the vet
school hospital, which is open 24/7, described the situation, and they
told me to bring him in. He got examined under sedation and x-rayed, but
they could find nothing wrong. The vet said the jaw is perfectly mobile,
and not loose at all, like it would be if something was broken.

Well, they sent us home, but Frank is just the same. He holds his mouth
open, and his tongue in between. I was so scared that I had hurt him
while giving him the paraffin oil. At least that did some good, when we
got home he went directly to the litterbox and made an oily deposit, and
then he peed in the other one, so that end should be good. His jaw is
obviously very sore, and it's swollen. If we could please have some
purrs that it heals by itself. The vet is going to ask the radiologist
to take a look at the x-rays on Monday, to make sure nothing's broken.

Frank wants nothing to do with me and I just want to hug him and tell
him everything will be alright. He glares at me and stalks off if I come
near. I'm so sorry if I caused this.

--
Marina, Frank and Nikki
marina (dot) kurten (at) pp (dot) inet (dot) fi
Pics at http://uk.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/frankiennikki/
and http://community.webshots.com/user/frankiennikki

"Marina" wrote in message
...
I had to take Frank to the emergency vet today. This morning, he was
straining on the litterbox, then a little gas escaped and two small,
hard poops. Oh, I thought, he is constipated. I broke out the paraffin
oil. Took some in a dropper, and had a huge fight with Frank before I
managed to squirt a little in his mouth. He screamed like a banshee and
jerked around so it was hard to get the dropper in his mouth.

Some time later, I noticed he was holding his mouth open. He refused to
eat, and as the day wore on his jaw swelled up. I finally called the vet
school hospital, which is open 24/7, described the situation, and they
told me to bring him in. He got examined under sedation and x-rayed, but
they could find nothing wrong. The vet said the jaw is perfectly mobile,
and not loose at all, like it would be if something was broken.

Well, they sent us home, but Frank is just the same. He holds his mouth
open, and his tongue in between. I was so scared that I had hurt him
while giving him the paraffin oil. At least that did some good, when we
got home he went directly to the litterbox and made an oily deposit, and
then he peed in the other one, so that end should be good. His jaw is
obviously very sore, and it's swollen. If we could please have some
purrs that it heals by itself. The vet is going to ask the radiologist
to take a look at the x-rays on Monday, to make sure nothing's broken.

Frank wants nothing to do with me and I just want to hug him and tell
him everything will be alright. He glares at me and stalks off if I come
near. I'm so sorry if I caused this.

--
Marina, Frank and Nikki
marina (dot) kurten (at) pp (dot) inet (dot) fi
Pics at http://uk.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/frankiennikki/
and http://community.webshots.com/user/frankiennikki

Awww, Marina, I'm so sorry about Frank. It is awful to think that your baby
might be hurt, and a thousand times worse to think you may have,
inadvertently, done it.

We're sending purrs that everything will be all right and that Frank heals
quickly and completely (and that he forgives you).

Hugs,

CatNipped

"Marina" wrote in message
...
I had to take Frank to the emergency vet today. This morning, he was
straining on the litterbox, then a little gas escaped and two small,
hard poops. Oh, I thought, he is constipated. I broke out the paraffin
oil. Took some in a dropper, and had a huge fight with Frank before I
managed to squirt a little in his mouth. He screamed like a banshee and
jerked around so it was hard to get the dropper in his mouth.

Some time later, I noticed he was holding his mouth open. He refused to
eat, and as the day wore on his jaw swelled up. I finally called the vet
school hospital, which is open 24/7, described the situation, and they
told me to bring him in. He got examined under sedation and x-rayed, but
they could find nothing wrong. The vet said the jaw is perfectly mobile,
and not loose at all, like it would be if something was broken.

Well, they sent us home, but Frank is just the same. He holds his mouth
open, and his tongue in between. I was so scared that I had hurt him
while giving him the paraffin oil. At least that did some good, when we
got home he went directly to the litterbox and made an oily deposit, and
then he peed in the other one, so that end should be good. His jaw is
obviously very sore, and it's swollen. If we could please have some
purrs that it heals by itself. The vet is going to ask the radiologist
to take a look at the x-rays on Monday, to make sure nothing's broken.

Frank wants nothing to do with me and I just want to hug him and tell
him everything will be alright. He glares at me and stalks off if I come
near. I'm so sorry if I caused this.

--
Marina, Frank and Nikki
marina (dot) kurten (at) pp (dot) inet (dot) fi
Pics at http://uk.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/frankiennikki/
and http://community.webshots.com/user/frankiennikki

Awww, Marina, I'm so sorry about Frank. It is awful to think that your baby
might be hurt, and a thousand times worse to think you may have,
inadvertently, done it.

We're sending purrs that everything will be all right and that Frank heals
quickly and completely (and that he forgives you).

Hugs,

CatNipped

"Marina" wrote in message
...
I had to take Frank to the emergency vet today. This morning, he was
straining on the litterbox, then a little gas escaped and two small,
hard poops. Oh, I thought, he is constipated. I broke out the paraffin
oil. Took some in a dropper, and had a huge fight with Frank before I
managed to squirt a little in his mouth. He screamed like a banshee and
jerked around so it was hard to get the dropper in his mouth.

Some time later, I noticed he was holding his mouth open. He refused to
eat, and as the day wore on his jaw swelled up. I finally called the vet
school hospital, which is open 24/7, described the situation, and they
told me to bring him in. He got examined under sedation and x-rayed, but
they could find nothing wrong. The vet said the jaw is perfectly mobile,
and not loose at all, like it would be if something was broken.

Well, they sent us home, but Frank is just the same. He holds his mouth
open, and his tongue in between. I was so scared that I had hurt him
while giving him the paraffin oil. At least that did some good, when we
got home he went directly to the litterbox and made an oily deposit, and
then he peed in the other one, so that end should be good. His jaw is
obviously very sore, and it's swollen. If we could please have some
purrs that it heals by itself. The vet is going to ask the radiologist
to take a look at the x-rays on Monday, to make sure nothing's broken.

Frank wants nothing to do with me and I just want to hug him and tell
him everything will be alright. He glares at me and stalks off if I come
near. I'm so sorry if I caused this.

--
Marina, Frank and Nikki
marina (dot) kurten (at) pp (dot) inet (dot) fi
Pics at http://uk.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/frankiennikki/
and http://community.webshots.com/user/frankiennikki

Awww, Marina, I'm so sorry about Frank. It is awful to think that your baby
might be hurt, and a thousand times worse to think you may have,
inadvertently, done it.

We're sending purrs that everything will be all right and that Frank heals
quickly and completely (and that he forgives you).

Hugs,

CatNipped

Mega purrs for Frank's quick recovery. Maybe in your understandable hurry
to get medication into him you bruised his jaw in the struggle.. If so,
he'll be okay in a few days. Try not to worry too much that you caused it,
if you did, it wasn't intentional. And maybe you didn't, anyway.
I once killed a hen by giving her liquid medication that she needed.. She
struggled and the liquid went straight into her lungs and she died (drowned)
almost immediately. I felt so bad about that.

Tweed






"Marina" wrote in message
...
I had to take Frank to the emergency vet today. This morning, he was
straining on the litterbox, then a little gas escaped and two small, hard
poops. Oh, I thought, he is constipated. I broke out the paraffin oil. Took
some in a dropper, and had a huge fight with Frank before I managed to
squirt a little in his mouth. He screamed like a banshee and jerked around
so it was hard to get the dropper in his mouth.

Some time later, I noticed he was holding his mouth open. He refused to
eat, and as the day wore on his jaw swelled up. I finally called the vet
school hospital, which is open 24/7, described the situation, and they
told me to bring him in. He got examined under sedation and x-rayed, but
they could find nothing wrong. The vet said the jaw is perfectly mobile,
and not loose at all, like it would be if something was broken.

Well, they sent us home, but Frank is just the same. He holds his mouth
open, and his tongue in between. I was so scared that I had hurt him while
giving him the paraffin oil. At least that did some good, when we got home
he went directly to the litterbox and made an oily deposit, and then he
peed in the other one, so that end should be good. His jaw is obviously
very sore, and it's swollen. If we could please have some purrs that it
heals by itself. The vet is going to ask the radiologist to take a look at
the x-rays on Monday, to make sure nothing's broken.

Frank wants nothing to do with me and I just want to hug him and tell him
everything will be alright. He glares at me and stalks off if I come near.
I'm so sorry if I caused this.

--
Marina, Frank and Nikki
marina (dot) kurten (at) pp (dot) inet (dot) fi
Pics at http://uk.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/frankiennikki/
and http://community.webshots.com/user/frankiennikki

Mega purrs for Frank's quick recovery. Maybe in your understandable hurry
to get medication into him you bruised his jaw in the struggle.. If so,
he'll be okay in a few days. Try not to worry too much that you caused it,
if you did, it wasn't intentional. And maybe you didn't, anyway.
I once killed a hen by giving her liquid medication that she needed.. She
struggled and the liquid went straight into her lungs and she died (drowned)
almost immediately. I felt so bad about that.

Tweed






"Marina" wrote in message
...
I had to take Frank to the emergency vet today. This morning, he was
straining on the litterbox, then a little gas escaped and two small, hard
poops. Oh, I thought, he is constipated. I broke out the paraffin oil. Took
some in a dropper, and had a huge fight with Frank before I managed to
squirt a little in his mouth. He screamed like a banshee and jerked around
so it was hard to get the dropper in his mouth.

Some time later, I noticed he was holding his mouth open. He refused to
eat, and as the day wore on his jaw swelled up. I finally called the vet
school hospital, which is open 24/7, described the situation, and they
told me to bring him in. He got examined under sedation and x-rayed, but
they could find nothing wrong. The vet said the jaw is perfectly mobile,
and not loose at all, like it would be if something was broken.

Well, they sent us home, but Frank is just the same. He holds his mouth
open, and his tongue in between. I was so scared that I had hurt him while
giving him the paraffin oil. At least that did some good, when we got home
he went directly to the litterbox and made an oily deposit, and then he
peed in the other one, so that end should be good. His jaw is obviously
very sore, and it's swollen. If we could please have some purrs that it
heals by itself. The vet is going to ask the radiologist to take a look at
the x-rays on Monday, to make sure nothing's broken.

Frank wants nothing to do with me and I just want to hug him and tell him
everything will be alright. He glares at me and stalks off if I come near.
I'm so sorry if I caused this.

--
Marina, Frank and Nikki
marina (dot) kurten (at) pp (dot) inet (dot) fi
Pics at http://uk.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/frankiennikki/
and http://community.webshots.com/user/frankiennikki

Mega purrs for Frank's quick recovery. Maybe in your understandable hurry
to get medication into him you bruised his jaw in the struggle.. If so,
he'll be okay in a few days. Try not to worry too much that you caused it,
if you did, it wasn't intentional. And maybe you didn't, anyway.
I once killed a hen by giving her liquid medication that she needed.. She
struggled and the liquid went straight into her lungs and she died (drowned)
almost immediately. I felt so bad about that.

Tweed






"Marina" wrote in message
...
I had to take Frank to the emergency vet today. This morning, he was
straining on the litterbox, then a little gas escaped and two small, hard
poops. Oh, I thought, he is constipated. I broke out the paraffin oil. Took
some in a dropper, and had a huge fight with Frank before I managed to
squirt a little in his mouth. He screamed like a banshee and jerked around
so it was hard to get the dropper in his mouth.

Some time later, I noticed he was holding his mouth open. He refused to
eat, and as the day wore on his jaw swelled up. I finally called the vet
school hospital, which is open 24/7, described the situation, and they
told me to bring him in. He got examined under sedation and x-rayed, but
they could find nothing wrong. The vet said the jaw is perfectly mobile,
and not loose at all, like it would be if something was broken.

Well, they sent us home, but Frank is just the same. He holds his mouth
open, and his tongue in between. I was so scared that I had hurt him while
giving him the paraffin oil. At least that did some good, when we got home
he went directly to the litterbox and made an oily deposit, and then he
peed in the other one, so that end should be good. His jaw is obviously
very sore, and it's swollen. If we could please have some purrs that it
heals by itself. The vet is going to ask the radiologist to take a look at
the x-rays on Monday, to make sure nothing's broken.

Frank wants nothing to do with me and I just want to hug him and tell him
everything will be alright. He glares at me and stalks off if I come near.
I'm so sorry if I caused this.

--
Marina, Frank and Nikki
marina (dot) kurten (at) pp (dot) inet (dot) fi
Pics at http://uk.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/frankiennikki/
and http://community.webshots.com/user/frankiennikki

So sorry to hear of Frank's trials. Purrs for him to recover soon.
I'd suspect that his sore mouth might well be why you couldn't get him
to accept the dropper in the first place - the only time my Kensey RB
gave me a hard time we later found out that he had a canine-tooth hole
(from a fight with the local tombully) right through his tongue.

Best wishes

Gordon & the TT

--
Feline family viewable at:
http://community.webshots.com/user/exocat
"Marina" wrote in message
...


Frank wants nothing to do with me and I just want to hug him and
tell him everything will be alright. He glares at me and stalks off
if I come near. I'm so sorry if I caused this.

So sorry to hear of Frank's trials. Purrs for him to recover soon.
I'd suspect that his sore mouth might well be why you couldn't get him
to accept the dropper in the first place - the only time my Kensey RB
gave me a hard time we later found out that he had a canine-tooth hole
(from a fight with the local tombully) right through his tongue.

Best wishes

Gordon & the TT

--
Feline family viewable at:
http://community.webshots.com/user/exocat
"Marina" wrote in message
...


Frank wants nothing to do with me and I just want to hug him and
tell him everything will be alright. He glares at me and stalks off
if I come near. I'm so sorry if I caused this.

So sorry to hear of Frank's trials. Purrs for him to recover soon.
I'd suspect that his sore mouth might well be why you couldn't get him
to accept the dropper in the first place - the only time my Kensey RB
gave me a hard time we later found out that he had a canine-tooth hole
(from a fight with the local tombully) right through his tongue.

Best wishes

Gordon & the TT

--
Feline family viewable at:
http://community.webshots.com/user/exocat
"Marina" wrote in message
...


Frank wants nothing to do with me and I just want to hug him and
tell him everything will be alright. He glares at me and stalks off
if I come near. I'm so sorry if I caused this.