Kitten with terrible odor

On Dec 5, 12:45*am, Takayuki wrote:
Sherry wrote:
Anyway, the diagnosis made perfect sense to me. Except I never noticed
her having trouble eating, which I would think you'd expect.
The little urchin just looks & acts otherwise
terribly healthy and sassy. She still has a bit of a funk about her,
but it's not the rotting-dead-
flesh smell that she had before.

That's a relief! *I was concerned too about the kitten. *You must have
burrs something awful there. *At least it wasn't as bad as that other
cat you found with the burr in its throat.

Two-Socks! Ican't believe you remember her. Her sticker ordeal was
quite different
The whole stickers were imbedded in the roof of her mouth I thought I
was taking a
cat to be euthanized, because she was having these "fits". She looked
like a cat
who was trying to take off an imaginary collar. All the vet had to do
was take tweezers
and pull them out. 2-Socks is still alive and well, by the way.
On this kitten, the object that caused the abscess wasn't still there,
and it was further
down her throat. He had to sedate her to look. That's why he
theorized it was a thorn from a grass burr. I have to find a name for
this kitten since I
obviously can't find a home for her.I thought maybe "missy." Because
DH is always
saying "You better get down from that table,little missy."

I can find plenty of people who will take her off my hands, but nobody
that's suitable.
Everybody wants a yard cat or a barn cat. Sigh. She is 100% house-cat
material. She
isn't even curious about what's happened in the OUT since she got out
of it.

Yes. We have been fighting stickers for 30 years. We have sprayed, dug
the plants up with
shovels before they mature. We have managed to keep them out of the
immediate yard. You
should have seen pretty longhaired Billy & Lilly whenthey first
strayed up. They were both
one big stickerball.

Sherry

Sherry

On Dec 5, 8:25*am, Sherry wrote:
On Dec 5, 12:45*am, Takayuki wrote:

Sherry wrote:
Anyway, the diagnosis made perfect sense to me. Except I never noticed
her having trouble eating, which I would think you'd expect.
The little urchin just looks & acts otherwise
terribly healthy and sassy. She still has a bit of a funk about her,
but it's not the rotting-dead-
flesh smell that she had before.

That's a relief! *I was concerned too about the kitten. *You must have
burrs something awful there. *At least it wasn't as bad as that other
cat you found with the burr in its throat.

Two-Socks! Ican't believe you remember her. Her sticker ordeal was
quite different
The whole stickers were imbedded in the roof of her mouth I thought I
was taking a
cat to be euthanized, because she was having these "fits". She looked
like a cat
who was trying to take off an imaginary collar. All the vet had to do
was take tweezers
and pull them out. * 2-Socks is still alive and well, by the way.
On this kitten, the object that caused the abscess wasn't still there,
and it was further
down her throat. He had to sedate her to look. *That's why he
theorized it was a thorn from a grass burr. I have to find a name for
this kitten since I
obviously can't find a home for her.I thought maybe "missy." Because
DH is always
saying "You better get down from that table,little missy."

I can find plenty of people who will take her off my hands, but nobody
that's suitable.
Everybody wants a yard cat or a barn cat. Sigh. She is 100% house-cat
material. She
isn't even curious about what's happened in the OUT since she got out
of it.

Yes. We have been fighting stickers for 30 years. We have sprayed, dug
the plants up with
shovels before they mature. We have managed to keep them out of the
immediate yard. You
should have seen pretty longhaired Billy & Lilly whenthey first
strayed up. They were both
one big stickerball.

Sherry

Sherry

Great news! I hope Missy winds up smelling like a rose in her new home
with you Lucky kitten.

Candace

"Sherry" wrote in message
...
On Dec 5, 12:08 am, MLB wrote:
Candace wrote:
On Dec 4, 6:02 pm, MLB wrote:

Haven't seen a followup so am fearing the worst. MLB

I wish Sherry would post, too.

I hope she isn't sick. Wil purr for her and her furkids. MLB

Oh, I am sorry for not updating. I did end up having to cancel the
Wed.
appointment and took her in today.
She had an abscess in the back of her throat, which had already
drained. I had
noticed she didn't stink so bad the last couple of days. I'm guessing
it burst on
the day I posted, because she stunk sooo bad that day.
They had to sedate her, and the vet said it most likely was a thorn
caught in her throat that
caused it, because cats are apt to swallow stickers (grass burrs)
when
they pull them out
of their paws or coat. We have stickers terrible, here. This time of
year they are dead,
and we track them in on the carpet on our shoes. She is also wormy.
Could be part of the
smell, too.
Anyway, the diagnosis made perfect sense to me. Except I never
noticed
her having trouble eating, which I would think you'd expect.
The little urchin just looks & acts otherwise
terribly healthy and sassy. She still has a bit of a funk about her,
but it's not the rotting-dead-
flesh smell that she had before.

Sherry

We have to do sticker patrol here too. Our cats think we just love
them. We are all just very adept and doing a quick once over for
anything that doesn't belong in the fur. Still once in a while they
will get one into an eye or ear or nose etc.

Jo

Sherry wrote:
Two-Socks! Ican't believe you remember her. Her sticker ordeal was
quite different The whole stickers were imbedded in the roof of
her mouth I thought I was taking a cat to be euthanized, because
she was having these "fits". She looked like a cat who was trying
to take off an imaginary collar. All the vet had to do was take
tweezers and pull them out. 2-Socks is still alive and well, by
the way.

That's good to hear! She sounded like a very sweet cat. I think a
lot of us remember that. It was the first time I'd heard that those
burrs are dangerous to cats.

I have to find a name for this kitten since I obviously can't find
a home for her.I thought maybe "missy." Because DH is always saying
"You better get down from that table,little missy." I can find
plenty of people who will take her off my hands, but nobody that's
suitable. Everybody wants a yard cat or a barn cat. Sigh. She is
100% house-cat material. She isn't even curious about what's happened
in the OUT since she got out of it.

Your DH sure says a lot of things to them. That's curious about
your area and stray cats that obviously aren't feral.

You should have seen pretty longhaired Billy & Lilly whenthey first
strayed up. They were both one big stickerball.

I can see how that would happen to those formerly little wavy-haired
puffs!

Sherry wrote:

Oh, I am sorry for not updating. I did end up having to cancel
the Wed. appointment and took her in today. She had an abscess
in the back of her throat, which had already drained. I had
noticed she didn't stink so bad the last couple of days. I'm
guessing it burst on the day I posted, because she stunk sooo
bad that day. They had to sedate her, and the vet said it most
likely was a thorn caught in her throat that caused it, because
cats are apt to swallow stickers (grass burrs) when they pull
them out of their paws or coat. We have stickers terrible, here.
This time of year they are dead, and we track them in on the
carpet on our shoes. She is also wormy. Could be part of the
smell, too.

Anyway, the diagnosis made perfect sense to me. Except I never
noticed her having trouble eating, which I would think you'd
expect. The little urchin just looks & acts otherwise terribly
healthy and sassy. She still has a bit of a funk about her, but
it's not the rotting-dead- flesh smell that she had before.

Poor girl, that must have been really painful for her. I'm
surprised too, that she could eat. But she was probably doing her
best to hid her discomfort from you. I'm really glad she's on the
mend now!

Joyce

--
Promise me you'll never wear pants that bind or tug or hurt, pants
that have an opinion about how much you've just eaten.
-- Anne Lamott

wrote in message
...
Sherry wrote:

Oh, I am sorry for not updating. I did end up having to cancel
the Wed. appointment and took her in today. She had an abscess
in the back of her throat, which had already drained. I had
noticed she didn't stink so bad the last couple of days. I'm
guessing it burst on the day I posted, because she stunk sooo
bad that day. They had to sedate her, and the vet said it most
likely was a thorn caught in her throat that caused it, because
cats are apt to swallow stickers (grass burrs) when they pull
them out of their paws or coat. We have stickers terrible, here.
This time of year they are dead, and we track them in on the
carpet on our shoes. She is also wormy. Could be part of the
smell, too.

Anyway, the diagnosis made perfect sense to me. Except I never
noticed her having trouble eating, which I would think you'd
expect. The little urchin just looks & acts otherwise terribly
healthy and sassy. She still has a bit of a funk about her, but
it's not the rotting-dead- flesh smell that she had before.

Poor girl, that must have been really painful for her. I'm
surprised too, that she could eat. But she was probably doing her
best to hid her discomfort from you. I'm really glad she's on the
mend now!

Joyce

From what I've seen with our guys, an abscess often will not really
hurt all that much, and it won't smell until it starts to drain.

Jo

On Nov 28, 9:21*pm, Sherry wrote:
Hi all, I am copying a post that I just made on the health+behav
group, just for the sake of speed and to
keep from crossposting. I wanted to get some feedback from you all
too, I'm very curious about this
and would like to know if anyone else has ever dealt with such a
smelly cat. Thanks.

Would crossposting have been a bad thing? With crossposting, we at
RPCH would have been updated when you posted over here. I didn't get
the update until someone at RPCH posted today that you were posting
here.

Anyway, I'm glad your kitty doesn't have something more serious!

FirstHit

On Dec 4, 10:26*pm, Sherry wrote:
On Dec 5, 12:08*am, MLB wrote:

Candace wrote:
On Dec 4, 6:02 pm, MLB wrote:

Haven't seen a followup so am fearing the worst. *MLB

I wish Sherry would post, too.

I hope she isn't sick. *Wil purr for her and her furkids. * MLB

Oh, I am sorry for not updating. I did end up having to cancel the
Wed.
appointment and took her in today.
She had an abscess in the back of her throat, which had already
drained. I had
noticed she didn't stink so bad the last couple of days. I'm guessing
it burst on
the day I posted, because she stunk sooo bad that day.
They had to sedate her, and the vet said it most likely was a thorn
caught in her throat that
caused it, because cats are apt to swallow stickers (grass burrs) when
they pull them out
of their paws or coat. We have stickers terrible, here. This time of
year they are dead,
and we track them in on the carpet on our shoes. She is also wormy.
Could be part of the
smell, too.
Anyway, the diagnosis made perfect sense to me. Except I never noticed
her having trouble eating, which I would think you'd expect.
The little urchin just looks & acts otherwise
terribly healthy and sassy. She still has a bit of a funk about her,
but it's not the rotting-dead-
flesh smell that she had before.

Sherry

My best friend has a dog and about 8 months ago he asked me what
causes bad breath in dogs cause his puppy had stinky breath.

I told him usually its teeth, but since he's a puppy i don't know what
it could be, but i advised him to go to a vet asap.

The silly dog had a piece of a stick stuck in the roof of his mouth.
Quick sedation and the stick was removed and soon he was bouncing
around again.

Glad to hear the little kitteh is ok!

Kristi