Category: Medical

Today is Indy’s dental scaling. I’ve been giving him his antibiotics, Metrogyl (as a prophylaxis) since five days ago. It will be done this afternoon. I hope all goes well. Among all of them who needed dental scaling (Cow, Bunny, Ginger and Indy), I think Indy’s oral hygiene was the worst of all. Cow only…

Guess…… NONE!!! Yes, none!! But wait…it’s STILL not time to celebrate yet. Here’s what happened. From the ultrasound, there was “a small amount” of fluids in Zurik’s right lung cavity today and still none in the left cavity.  However, the amount in the right was too small for the vet to draw out. We also…

Yesterday was one month after Zurik’s diagnosis of having FIP.  At present, he seems to be doing as well as he can be on the following; Prednisolone 2.5mg twice daily RetroMAD1 0.8ml thrice daily Vetri DMG 0.5ml daily B Complex Fish oil I had to buy a new stock of RetroMAD1 today as whatever I…

Yay!! Indy’s creatinine has gone down from the previous reading of 238 one month ago in April to today’s reading of 174 (within normal range). Exactly a month of alternate-day subcut.  Hydration works!! The vet says we can now reduce his subcut to twice a week, at 200ml each time and Indy’s scaling is now…

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We just came back from the vet’s after Zurik’s check-up. It has been ten days after his last lung cavity aspiration of fluids. During the first round of aspiration, we extracted 125ml (don’t know how much it had taken to accumulate to that much). The second was 40ml after 4 days, the third was 90ml…

You might remember that Pole had a vomiting problem which started four days ago when I gave all of them a different brand of fish oil (yes, my fault, I shouldn’t have changed the brand). Ever since then, she has not gone back to 100% yet. I was monitoring her all day yesterday and there…

What started off as playing has now become a case of bullying. I have caught Heidi whacking Zurik at least two times so far. And on each occasion, I told Heidi off. Today, Jia-Wen witnessed it all. Zurik was sleeping on the sofa minding his own business. Heidi came, walked over to the sofa, put…

Zurik has “blunt” teeth.  You’d think that is less dangerous, but it isn’t necessarily so. He can inflict blunt force trauma on me when I feed him his medicines! But I suppose blunt force trauma is less painful than sharp teeth injury!! There is less likelihood of puncture wounds which warrant a tetanus shot! It…

Every day, after medicines, Zurik will ask for a reward from the kitchen. His reward is Cindy’s Salmon Recipe (with chicken) kibble. This is his current favourite kibble. He eats raw chicken fillet for breakfast. Zurik has also perfected a saliva-spitting technique because he hates having liquids syringed into his mouth. Here is how he…

I was optimistic and hopeful there would be less fluids in the lungs, or even less. Zurik’s breathing doesn’t seem so laboured anymore now. He looks so alert and he seems more energetic and interested in life compared to the past few months when living outside. Zurik’s appetite has improved so much and he eats…

He’s up to something, I know. I think he is planning an escape so we are on Code Yellow and high vigilance today. I “measured” Mr Zurik’s breathing last night while he was asleep. It was 11 breaths for 30 seconds! Previously, it was 15 breaths. While I know this is a very unscientific way…