My cat looks like sh*t
Or, at least she's sh*tfaced.
Did you know that gray and white cats, when you shave them, are gray and white underneath?
But I digress...
Merlot went to the vet today. I have no idea what I've posted b4, and I'm too lazy to look, but when we came back from Honduras she was acting funny. So at the end of the week I took her to the vet (I may have mentioned this b/c they euthanized a choking dog when I was there). There was the awful stench of anaerobic abscess, a week + of liquid antibiotics, some pain meds, and a growing feline distrust of me in general.
Maia was also jealous because there was tasty food around, and it wasn't all hers --NOT that she would eat it if you gave it to her, mind you!! Yuck.
So, after AW09 and buying a house and our anniversary yesterday, Merlot went back to the vet to the periodontist to figure out what the hey is going on with her mouth. This is important, since she's really not been eating anything, and it's become a bitch-and-a-half to get her to open her (very sore) mouth to put medication in there twice daily.
At the vet, they didn't find a whole lot good in there. Basically, there's no teeth on her left jaw, and a mass. (I'd been warned that one possibility is a squamous cell cancer.) The quote du jour:
Merlot had her teeth cleaned today, and during the cleaning we discovered that the source of her pain and difficulty eating was a mass on the lower left jaw. An X-ray showed that this mass was eating away at the mandibular bone. Several of the teeth were engulfed in the mass and were extracted without difficulty, as the bone around the teeth was gone."
Um.....ew?
But fdmts had dutifully picked her up at the vet and gave her high calorie soft food, of which she's eaten some, and left to go and try and catch a quick workout in PVD. When I got home, Merlot was sitting with bloody drool all over the good side of her face and her tongue is sort of permanently sticking out. I was, to say the least, horrified. She's got a shaved patch on her side b/c we prevailed upon them to come up with a plan for pain control that doesn't involve us prying her mouth open to give her medication--so she has a transdermal patch on. Like a cancer patient.
She got a sponge bath and some more hi cal food, and a protective squirt bottle for the little one, who is still jealous, but gets to sit on my lap b/c she's not drooling.
...sad...
Did you know that gray and white cats, when you shave them, are gray and white underneath?
But I digress...
Merlot went to the vet today. I have no idea what I've posted b4, and I'm too lazy to look, but when we came back from Honduras she was acting funny. So at the end of the week I took her to the vet (I may have mentioned this b/c they euthanized a choking dog when I was there). There was the awful stench of anaerobic abscess, a week + of liquid antibiotics, some pain meds, and a growing feline distrust of me in general.
Maia was also jealous because there was tasty food around, and it wasn't all hers --NOT that she would eat it if you gave it to her, mind you!! Yuck.
So, after AW09 and buying a house and our anniversary yesterday, Merlot went back to the vet to the periodontist to figure out what the hey is going on with her mouth. This is important, since she's really not been eating anything, and it's become a bitch-and-a-half to get her to open her (very sore) mouth to put medication in there twice daily.
At the vet, they didn't find a whole lot good in there. Basically, there's no teeth on her left jaw, and a mass. (I'd been warned that one possibility is a squamous cell cancer.) The quote du jour:
Merlot had her teeth cleaned today, and during the cleaning we discovered that the source of her pain and difficulty eating was a mass on the lower left jaw. An X-ray showed that this mass was eating away at the mandibular bone. Several of the teeth were engulfed in the mass and were extracted without difficulty, as the bone around the teeth was gone."
Um.....ew?
But fdmts had dutifully picked her up at the vet and gave her high calorie soft food, of which she's eaten some, and left to go and try and catch a quick workout in PVD. When I got home, Merlot was sitting with bloody drool all over the good side of her face and her tongue is sort of permanently sticking out. I was, to say the least, horrified. She's got a shaved patch on her side b/c we prevailed upon them to come up with a plan for pain control that doesn't involve us prying her mouth open to give her medication--so she has a transdermal patch on. Like a cancer patient.
She got a sponge bath and some more hi cal food, and a protective squirt bottle for the little one, who is still jealous, but gets to sit on my lap b/c she's not drooling.
...sad...