Purrs for my friends kitty

"Karen" wrote in message
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"W. Leong" wrote in message
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"Karen" wrote in message
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Well, they are still at the vets. Foster's blood panels have been good.
There is some question about his gravity specific urine tests, but they
almost sent him home. The owner of the clinic wanted to keep them
though
just to make sure. She is to take them to their regular vet tomorrow
(IV's
and all) and get an afternoon bloodtest. They feel if it is still good,
they are out of the woods. Sofie (sorry, Chloe is someone else's cat,
yeesh) probably did not ingest any but better safe than sorry. They've
upchucked a bunch of charcoal. Poor kitties. It seems that it is a good
prognosis. Whew.

Thanks for the update Karen. Continue to send purrs for a speedy and
complete recovery.
Do you mean specific gravity instead of 'gravity specific'?

Winnie



Probably. You know, whatever it is they test for CRF or ARF?


Specific gravity is like the density. If the urine is too dilute, they
suspect
the kidneys are unable to concentrate the urine. Some years ago, the
vet thought Rusty's has renal insufficiency.
Turned out I mixed his canned food with lots of water so that made
his urine very diluted. Subsequent tests show his kidneys are fine.
What does ARF stand for?

Winnie

W. Leong wrote:
"Karen" wrote in message
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"W. Leong" wrote in message
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"Karen" wrote in message
news:2006041620123050073%kchuplis@alltelnet...
Well, they are still at the vets. Foster's blood panels have been
good. There is some question about his gravity specific urine
tests, but they almost sent him home. The owner of the clinic
wanted to keep them though
just to make sure. She is to take them to their regular vet
tomorrow (IV's and all) and get an afternoon bloodtest. They feel
if it is still good, they are out of the woods. Sofie (sorry,
Chloe is someone else's cat, yeesh) probably did not ingest any
but better safe than sorry. They've upchucked a bunch of charcoal.
Poor kitties. It seems that it is a good prognosis. Whew.

Thanks for the update Karen. Continue to send purrs for a speedy and
complete recovery.
Do you mean specific gravity instead of 'gravity specific'?

Winnie



Probably. You know, whatever it is they test for CRF or ARF?


Specific gravity is like the density. If the urine is too dilute, they
suspect
the kidneys are unable to concentrate the urine. Some years ago, the
vet thought Rusty's has renal insufficiency.
Turned out I mixed his canned food with lots of water so that made
his urine very diluted. Subsequent tests show his kidneys are fine.
What does ARF stand for?

Winnie

CRF = Chronic Renal Failure
ARF = the sound a dog makes J/K !!! Acute Renal Failure

On Sat, 15 Apr 2006 23:37:31 -0500, Karen wrote:

She did not know about Easter Lilys and her husband brought one home
this afternoon at around 1pm. Around 2 her male cat, Foster, came in
and meowed, and threw up. They could see two leaves in the food. She
immediately wondered about the new plant and looked it up and
discovered how toxic they are. She had the cat to the emergency vets
probably within an hour and a half of his having eaten it (they
actually took both cats because not knowing if the girl had eaten it or
not - and she probably hasn't because she did not vomit). So they are
both at the vet and got the charcoal treatment and are on IVs to flush
their kidney's. They will take a blood test around 1 a m 12 hours out
from the first possible ingestion. From everything I read, it sounds
like they have the best possible scenario for this bad situation but
purrs for Foster and Chloe (though Chloe is probably getting this just
for precautions sake so especially Foster) to have gotten it all out
and not have developed any kidney trouble from this. I did think it was
good he had food in his stomach too, as I would expect that had to
absorb some of any sap. Husband feels guilty, she feels like a horrible
cat mommy for not knowing (and this is on top of quitting her job that
she thought was going to be her dream job and turned into the "Academic
political job from hell" on Wednesday). Purrs would be appreciated from
anyone reading the boards this late.

thanks all

Karen

Belated purrs offered. Hope everything is okay.

Ginger-lyn

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Karen wrote:
Well, they are still at the vets. Foster's blood panels have been good.
There is some question about his gravity specific urine tests, but they
almost sent him home. The owner of the clinic wanted to keep them though
just to make sure. She is to take them to their regular vet tomorrow
(IV's and all) and get an afternoon bloodtest. They feel if it is still
good, they are out of the woods. Sofie (sorry, Chloe is someone else's
cat, yeesh) probably did not ingest any but better safe than sorry.
They've upchucked a bunch of charcoal. Poor kitties. It seems that it is
a good prognosis. Whew.
Thanks for the update. Hope they continue to do well.

--
Sam, closely supervised by Mistletoe

Karen wrote:

She did not know about Easter Lilys and her husband brought one home
this afternoon at around 1pm. Around 2 her male cat, Foster, came in and
meowed, and threw up. They could see two leaves in the food. She
immediately wondered about the new plant and looked it up and discovered
how toxic they are. She had the cat to the emergency vets probably
within an hour and a half of his having eaten it (they actually took
both cats because not knowing if the girl had eaten it or not - and she
probably hasn't because she did not vomit). So they are both at the vet
and got the charcoal treatment and are on IVs to flush their kidney's.
They will take a blood test around 1 a m 12 hours out from the first
possible ingestion. From everything I read, it sounds like they have the
best possible scenario for this bad situation but purrs for Foster and
Chloe (though Chloe is probably getting this just for precautions sake
so especially Foster) to have gotten it all out and not have developed
any kidney trouble from this. I did think it was good he had food in his
stomach too, as I would expect that had to absorb some of any sap.
Husband feels guilty, she feels like a horrible cat mommy for not
knowing (and this is on top of quitting her job that she thought was
going to be her dream job and turned into the "Academic political job
from hell" on Wednesday). Purrs would be appreciated from anyone reading
the boards this late.

thanks all

Karen

I hope they are both ok.
Lots of purrs and best wishes,
POlonca and Soncek

On 2006-04-22 16:10:00 -0500, polonca12000 said:

Karen wrote:

She did not know about Easter Lilys and her husband brought one home
this afternoon at around 1pm. Around 2 her male cat, Foster, came in
and meowed, and threw up. They could see two leaves in the food. She
immediately wondered about the new plant and looked it up and
discovered how toxic they are. She had the cat to the emergency vets
probably within an hour and a half of his having eaten it (they
actually took both cats because not knowing if the girl had eaten it or
not - and she probably hasn't because she did not vomit). So they are
both at the vet and got the charcoal treatment and are on IVs to flush
their kidney's. They will take a blood test around 1 a m 12 hours out
from the first possible ingestion. From everything I read, it sounds
like they have the best possible scenario for this bad situation but
purrs for Foster and Chloe (though Chloe is probably getting this just
for precautions sake so especially Foster) to have gotten it all out
and not have developed any kidney trouble from this. I did think it was
good he had food in his stomach too, as I would expect that had to
absorb some of any sap. Husband feels guilty, she feels like a horrible
cat mommy for not knowing (and this is on top of quitting her job that
she thought was going to be her dream job and turned into the "Academic
political job from hell" on Wednesday). Purrs would be appreciated from
anyone reading the boards this late.

thanks all

Karen

I hope they are both ok.
Lots of purrs and best wishes,
POlonca and Soncek

All home and good!