Campaigning for a bone.
I’ll literally do anything you want just givemethatbone.
Thx!!!
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The last pic is excellent :)
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20 year old cancer cat has cancer again and I’m devastated
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Give him all the love man, and try to stay focused on how great things have been the last few months with his newly discovered love of the chase.
Im sorry you gotta go through this
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What a fucking day. Cats been on a way-too-rapid downswing last couple days, walking gingerly, sad/in pain, finally dam breaks when I see him go downstairs and come out of the box room crying, take him to emergency vet, takes 2 hours of sitting in car waiting, pouring rain, and yeah an hour later she’s like yeah I stuck my hand up his butt and pulled out a bunch of very hard poop blocking him off and he’ll be fine. At least until his cancer consult on Monday. =/ FML but better than the worst news. Jesus.
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Our experience has been that if it happens once, it happens again and again. Our guy has been on Miralax for a while. Works wonders.
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Cool we have some of that now thanks
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Cat’s cancer confirmed back, but amazingly he’s well enough to go back on chop treatment and is starting today. It worked great 14 months ago.
I’m honestly having a hard time dealing with this. I’ve never really experienced grief or loss besides grandparents I wasn’t close to. I um can’t recommend it.
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Hang in there. Sounds like you have quite a fighter. Hopefully you have someone to talk to that understands the relationship with a pet.
In a similar boat - picked up my feline dude at the pound 15 years ago. First pet I ever had. He’s starting to have some issues, and I just can’t imagine what it’s going to be like when he’s gone.
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Its tough, and im feeling for you right now Grue.
Itll be 4 months in a week since we lost Oscar. I still think about him daily and miss him a ton. The hurt is less than it was that day, and it fades with each day, but every so often another wave will hit, normally out of nowhere and Ill be grief stricken for a while.
Its less and less as time goes. I wont forget him, but the hurt is fading. Grief is like waves that peter out ive been told and it seems true. In and out, slowly getting smaller.
Hang in there.
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You are an absolute lunatic if you go into healthcare of any kind imo. As I’m paying up front ($1200 lol) a little Somali girl and her mom come up to the door holding a kitten, crying, and the door staff of course have to turn her away because emergency is full at this place and they didn’t call ahead and I’m just dying inside.
At least human doctors get rich. And the emergency room has to treat them (I think?).
Veterinary care is brutal. Tons and tons of debt, poor pay, terrible hours, and a zillion patients who think you’re a soulless money-grubbing automaton, when most likely you’re doing the job because you frickin’ love animals.
Have a couple of friends who are vets and it can be soul-crushing at times. There’s also been almost no increase in vets as pet ownership has gone up by millions (according to a shared post from one of said vets), so the situation is just getting worse and worse. Above average suicide rates also, I believe.
All that said, I complain all the time about my vet’s bedside manner, but they’re so damn conveniently located to go elsewhere.
Its even beyond that, its any job that deals with animals at all. They’re just terrible. Zoo employees make like 30k a year for super specialized long hours smelly as fuck jobs because “they play with cute animals”.
The animal hospital (the animals are the patients) that I’ve been going to like 15 times in the past 1.5 years has been amazing, patient, helpful, time consuming, and have a 3.2 star rating on google for reasons I have no desire to look into.
When my guy eventually passes away in 20 years I told the wife I want to take a break from pet ownership beyond my other cat of course. We’ll see. Can’t even imagine being a dog owner when they have half the lifespan, crazy.
This made me chuckle
Vet suicide rates are astronomical.
Boy do I have a TV show for you!
The Dr Pol place is about half an hour from where my hometown. We watch occasionally but have not seen anyone I know.
Was a reference to this, one of my favorite low key jokes that I make to my wife over and over and she rolls her eyes.
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Never got into Community.