Sep 01, 2008 10:07
Dieter went to kitty heaven on Friday - end-stage renal failure. He wound up in emergency on Sunday as he got very sick and growly with us, and he had a very high fever. Monday he went back to the regular vet - another round of blood tests and an ultrasound showed that he wasn't getting better and that the kidneys were toast. The vet told me that once he stops eating, then it's pretty much it. I didn't want to let it get to the point where he'd be screaming in pain or something horrible like that, so when he wouldn't eat, I took him in.
It's possible that he didn't get into anything poisonous, that this was just a congenital defect. It must have been, because we can't figure out what he may have got into (still suspicious about that bag of food - I'm certainly not putting it out for the other two)
A seventeen month-old cat with renal failure........
Such an awesome cat.