More cat fun

Maggie the Fat Calico has been vomiting LOTS in the past couple of weeks, but I was so wrapped up in Brownie's rapid decline that I didn't get around to doing anything about it until today. It's really gotten bad the past couple of days -- she'll vomit immediately after she eats, or after it's sat around for a bit. Sometimes it's just some hair.

This is Maggie





To give a little history, when we decided to keep Jack, she spread the 2 or 3 fleas she had around the house. Maggie got a couple. Maggie has flea allergies, and so she engaged in a month-long round of itching and pulling out fur. Apparently she ate more fur than she should have, and I think now she has a massive hairball that won't pass. I've tried Petromalt, daily doses, and they haven't done anything.

So took her to the vet today, got weighed (17.7 lbs!!), and they poked and prodded her. The old vet thinks he felt a big "something" in her stomach, the younger (good) vet couldn't feel anything because Maggie's so fat, so they tubed her with 30cc mineral oil. Hopefully that will lube up whatever it is so it will pass. Out the south end, not the north end.

Now I have to sit watch on the litterbox to see if she passes anything. I also have to hope she doesn't vomit up the mineral oil. We'll know by Saturday if it's going to work.

Maggie continued

Just cleaned the cat box, looks like the mineral oil came out the correct end, along with some very small turds. Brownie sized, not the usual Maggie sized. I guess I'll call the vet tomorrow and report. It didn't look like all the mineral oil, 30cc is a good amount, so maybe she still has some in her...

I know we probably can't afford surgery if there's a huge hairball in there. So I may be telling Maggie good-bye soon too... but I'm not going to go there right now. I can physically feel my mind veer off from the very thought.

Updates as things occur...

Update 11:50pm: very soft, small blob of green poop, about the size of a ping pong ball. No apparent distress, she thoughtfully wiped her butt on the carpet (better than the bed), and is now having a crunch. Oh, that's something else -- when we got home from the vet she immediately went and had a nice crunch, drank some water, then had another crunch. She ate her bedtime snacks with alacrity, and there has been NO VOMITING AT ALL. By now she would have hurked up at least the food she ate earlier, and probably the snacks about 3 minutes after eating them.