Category: Medical

Haha…. Kai, Akira and Indra….are…all… ….GIRLS!! They are all girls!! The vet checked twice. As it stands now, they are all girls! She also showed me their private parts – see, it’s just a vertical line. All three are the same. Lift the kitten’s tail. The opening just under the tail is the anus. Below the anus…

Today is the kittens’ 4th week deworming so I took Samantha along to see the kittens’ vet. Good news – what Samantha has is not Cryptococcosis!! It looks like ringworm, according to the vet. And yet no fungus was detected with the light (it’s the same gadget as the one I have) but the vet…

Whenever Indy is unwell, I worry. This is because no vet can find out exactly what is wrong with him or provide treatment that works 100%. It’s not surprising since no vet had ever been able to find out what is wrong EXACTLY. For those who are new to this blog, Indy was rescued at…

Luckily we arrested the flu before it got any worse. Tabs stopped sneezing yesterday itself. She will still have to complete her antibiotics and the anti-histamine. The vet did say that Tabs is a very allergic cat too. I’m so relieved Tabs isn’t sneezing anymore. Otherwise, it would have been madness if our other cats…

Yesterday, when we were trying to figure out how to help Samantha with her engorged mammary glands, the vet asked if Samantha might consent to being wrapped in lettuce. Lettuce?? Yes, a lettuce wrap such that the lettuce (or any vegetable) will cool down the inflammation of her mammary glands. I was almost sure there…

My totally mad day started at 3am this morning. It’s been madness all the way until now. Everything is more or less settled for now (I hope!). I dearly hope we made the right decision regarding Samantha stopping her medication and letting her breast feed the kittens again. Well, there was no other way, actually.…

Tabs’ sneezing started two nights ago. I was already giving her Vetri DMG and Lysine. But it has been raining, so she was still sneezing. When the sun came out this mid-morning, her sneezing stopped. But just to play it safe, I took her to the vet’s with Samantha. The vet said Tabs has a…

I woke up at 3am this morning to feed the kittens. I noticed that feeding round the clock is essential to maintaining their weight. Now that I was the only one feeding the kittens, if I did not feed around the clock, every 3 hours, and at least 12ml each, their weights drop drastically. This…

There’s no sun right now. I wish there were so that Samantha can have a sunbath. I texted with the vet just now and she says Samantha’s wounds look more extensive today. Pilling was quite the disaster too. The vet asks if I would consider hospitalising Samantha so that she can be monitored by them.…

Samantha had been very stressed in the cage. Granted, she had never been caged before all her life, assuming she had grown up on the street, that is. After we tricked her into the house on 27th January, she was always upstairs in the big bedroom, free to move around. And I think she did…

I’ve been reading up on cryptococcosis and it is not zoonotic nor does it transmit from cat to cat or to other animals too. If a Cryptococcus species penetrates a cat’s central nervous system or affects multiple organs, then cryptococcosis can be fatal. Is cryptococcosis in cats contagious? No, cats cannot transmit cryptococcosis to other cats.…

It really breaks my heart that I have to separate Samantha from her kittens. But we do not know what disease Samantha has which has manifested as lesions around her nose. So to keep the kittens safe, I have to separate them.  This is after the skin scraping done by the vet to determine what…

I noticed just a spot on Samantha’s face two days ago. I thought it was nothing, so I left it. Yesterday morning, there were suddenly three spots. But it still did not look serious. I thought she might have rubbed her nose onto the security window screen. But by evening, at around 5.30pm (the vet…