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cephalopod) wrote2018-02-03 08:45 am
cephalopod) wrote2018-02-03 08:45 am
State of the Fish
Getting food down a cat with a syringe is intensely unglamorous. Just saying. Gotta do it, and it's making her feel better after just two goes--wow she hates it while it's going on though. There's medical treatment for you. The vet yesterday didn't find anything alarming, it's just that she's lethargic and not eating and a bit sniffly, which...turns out maps pretty damn well to a recognized pattern of cats losing a companion (my other cat Jones) and getting droopy and non-eaty and catching a cold or flu as a result of feeling crappy.
Jones went pretty suddenly, and I think it took her about a week to realize he was gone. Since then, yeah, she hasn't been eating much. And she's been clingy. And she's been sleeping in places that he liked to sleep and still smell like him, like my fabric trunk. And she definitely has sniffles.
She is an old kitty, she's had a course of antibiotics, and we have fluids and recovery food and love to cram at her until she feels better, which will probably take another week or two. She will probably be fine.
Also, everything I read about bereaved kitties is very stern about DO NOT GO OUT AND GET A KITTEN. Pffff. :D It's like that's a thing that happens all the time somehow.
Jones went pretty suddenly, and I think it took her about a week to realize he was gone. Since then, yeah, she hasn't been eating much. And she's been clingy. And she's been sleeping in places that he liked to sleep and still smell like him, like my fabric trunk. And she definitely has sniffles.
She is an old kitty, she's had a course of antibiotics, and we have fluids and recovery food and love to cram at her until she feels better, which will probably take another week or two. She will probably be fine.
Also, everything I read about bereaved kitties is very stern about DO NOT GO OUT AND GET A KITTEN. Pffff. :D It's like that's a thing that happens all the time somehow.
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BUT KITTENS
(we waited a few months to get kittens with Ganon, until he had clearly adapted to but still missed Zelda. Since she went to the vet half an hour before we went on a ten-day trip, he thought she went with us, and he investigated all of our luggage like 5 times looking for her when we returned.)
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A minor complication in the good advice to not get kittens to make your bereaved cat feel better is that I already have two names picked out for the pair of them we'll eventually take in. They're really cute. So are kittens. It is HARD not to show up at the door with them one day.
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Ganon is also a companionship-needy cat; we originally got Zelda because he was lonely and it was making him a jerk, so "recovery time then kittens" was always the plan if Zelda went first. Had Ganon gone first, the princess would have enjoyed some time as the sole ruler of the household. As it is, grumpy elder statescat is delighted with his two new bosses who rampage all over him and he gently gives in, and then sometimes employs grandpa status to declare YOU MUST BE CLEAN NOW and groom them, which is stupendously adorable.