Category: Medical

  • Luckily I sent Sakura (renamed Hiro) to the vet’s (severe flu)

    An update: Sakura has been renamed Hiro now.  I managed to drop Sakura at the vet’s while I was on my way to my dental surgery and collected her after that. Luckily I sent her. Sakura has severe flu and a lot of allergic cells. An X-ray was taken and it showed that her right…

  • Post-op care after neutering is compulsory, please

    Some news from the grapevine again and it isn’t exactly good news. We’ve been informed that there are feeders and rescuers who send in rescued animals for neutering to certain places that provide this service, but they do not fast the animals 8 hours prior to the surgery and they also do not give the…

  • Samantha’s lesion update – it is NOT fungal

    The clinic updated me yesterday. Samantha’s culture came back negative for fungus, so it isn’t fungal at all. It is healing well. Slowly, but surely.

  • Tabs’ sneezing came back

    Tabs was sneeze-free for a full 24 hours after initially taking the medicines. Then, it came back. I told her vet yesterday and she said Tabs is a very allergic cat (from the ear-prick blood test conducted that day). So, this may not be a case of cat flu but a case of allergy. Allergy!…

  • Kai, Akira and Indra’s check-up (breaking news!)

    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…

  • Samantha (it’s NOT crypto!!) and the kittens’ check-up

    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…

  • Indy’s un-wellness

    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…

  • Tabs has stopped sneezing

    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…

  • Good morning, Sam and kitties!

    I wasn’t feeling well last night (must be due to some sambal I ate at an eatery) so I could not get up to feed the kittens at 10pm. But I’m okay this morning. So, Kai and Akira lost weight in the 4am weighing session this morning. But it isn’t too alarming. Indra gained weight…

  • A lettuce/cabbage wrap for Samantha? No way!

    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…

  • The calm after the madness

    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

    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…

  • A totally and completely mad day (Samantha and her kittens)!

    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…

  • Please come out, Mr Golden Sun!

    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’s updates

    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…