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Internal bleeding in a cat
Hi. I'm new to this group, but am really hoping someone might have
some suggestions/answers for me. A little history: I had to cats--both spayed, indoor only calicos about six months apart in age. Both had lived with me since they were kittens. Last year in November, my husband and I were finding frequent spit-ups, but we couldn't tell which cat was doing it. Before we could figure it out, the older/bigger cat got really sick. When we took her to the vet, he discovered she had lost all her blood-clotting ability. The only thing he could think of that could cause this was exposure to rat-poison, which we were sure couldn't have happened. After a day or two, we had to put her down: she was 7 1/2 years old. Flash forward to present: About three weeks ago, we noticed our remaining cat wasn't using the litter box, and we weren't finding messes anywhere around the house. The night before we were going to phone the vet, she threw up blood. We took her to an emergency clinic, who determined she was stable, brought her home and took her to our vet the next day. She was tested for parasites (negative) and blood in the feces (positive, but "hidden"). her hemocrits were low, but just in the mormal range. Obviuosly bleeding, but from where and why? She's been on anti-biotics and sulcrate, she stabilized and we brought her home. But she stopped eating, and when I took her back last night, her hemocrits had dropped. In searching for an answer, the vet is once again asking about rat poison exposure. The cat is only 8 years old. We have lived in the same house for 6 years. We have a 5 y.o. dog and 3 1/2 y.o. twins, all of whom are healthy. The cat doesn't go outside, but I'm the only one who removes my shoes when I come in the house. No new plants, furniture, paints, etc. have been introduced to the house recently. We changed cat food after Miskit died last year. The timing is what makes this really wierd: two cats getting sick with similar symptons a year apart. Any ideas? TIA me |
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Internal bleeding in a cat
On Tue, 05 Dec 2006 09:26:36 -0800, junkisus wrote:
Hi. I'm new to this group, but am really hoping someone might have some suggestions/answers for me. A little history: I had to cats--both spayed, indoor only calicos about six months apart in age. Both had lived with me since they were kittens. Last year in November, my husband and I were finding frequent spit-ups, but we couldn't tell which cat was doing it. Before we could figure it out, the older/bigger cat got really sick. When we took her to the vet, he discovered she had lost all her blood-clotting ability. The only thing he could think of that could cause this was exposure to rat-poison, which we were sure couldn't have happened. After a day or two, we had to put her down: she was 7 1/2 years old. Flash forward to present: About three weeks ago, we noticed our remaining cat wasn't using the litter box, and we weren't finding messes anywhere around the house. The night before we were going to phone the vet, she threw up blood. We took her to an emergency clinic, who determined she was stable, brought her home and took her to our vet the next day. She was tested for parasites (negative) and blood in the feces (positive, but "hidden"). her hemocrits were low, but just in the mormal range. Obviuosly bleeding, but from where and why? She's been on anti-biotics and sulcrate, she stabilized and we brought her home. But she stopped eating, and when I took her back last night, her hemocrits had dropped. In searching for an answer, the vet is once again asking about rat poison exposure. The cat is only 8 years old. We have lived in the same house for 6 years. We have a 5 y.o. dog and 3 1/2 y.o. twins, all of whom are healthy. The cat doesn't go outside, but I'm the only one who removes my shoes when I come in the house. No new plants, furniture, paints, etc. have been introduced to the house recently. We changed cat food after Miskit died last year. The timing is what makes this really wierd: two cats getting sick with similar symptons a year apart. Any ideas? TIA me The only thing that comes to mind: perhaps the cat ate a bug that had ingested the poison. MLB |
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Internal bleeding in a cat
"mlbriggs" wrote in message news On Tue, 05 Dec 2006 09:26:36 -0800, junkisus wrote: Hi. I'm new to this group, but am really hoping someone might have some suggestions/answers for me. A little history: I had to cats--both spayed, indoor only calicos about six months apart in age. Both had lived with me since they were kittens. Last year in November, my husband and I were finding frequent spit-ups, but we couldn't tell which cat was doing it. Before we could figure it out, the older/bigger cat got really sick. When we took her to the vet, he discovered she had lost all her blood-clotting ability. The only thing he could think of that could cause this was exposure to rat-poison, which we were sure couldn't have happened. After a day or two, we had to put her down: she was 7 1/2 years old. Flash forward to present: About three weeks ago, we noticed our remaining cat wasn't using the litter box, and we weren't finding messes anywhere around the house. The night before we were going to phone the vet, she threw up blood. We took her to an emergency clinic, who determined she was stable, brought her home and took her to our vet the next day. She was tested for parasites (negative) and blood in the feces (positive, but "hidden"). her hemocrits were low, but just in the mormal range. Obviuosly bleeding, but from where and why? She's been on anti-biotics and sulcrate, she stabilized and we brought her home. But she stopped eating, and when I took her back last night, her hemocrits had dropped. In searching for an answer, the vet is once again asking about rat poison exposure. The cat is only 8 years old. We have lived in the same house for 6 years. We have a 5 y.o. dog and 3 1/2 y.o. twins, all of whom are healthy. The cat doesn't go outside, but I'm the only one who removes my shoes when I come in the house. No new plants, furniture, paints, etc. have been introduced to the house recently. We changed cat food after Miskit died last year. The timing is what makes this really wierd: two cats getting sick with similar symptons a year apart. Any ideas? TIA me The only thing that comes to mind: perhaps the cat ate a bug that had ingested the poison. MLB Or ate a mouse who ate poison. How long does it take for mouse poison to kill a mouse? |
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