Category: Medical

The clinic is closed today, but the vet sent an update with a photo and video this morning. Vincent is still able to eat on his own. But he has the beginning signs of the flu. We hope the existing antibiotic protocol will address the flu symptoms.

Vincent must be feeling much better after the IV-rehydration. He ate up all the food that the vet gave him – chicken breast meat, wetfood and kibble! He looks more cheerful as well. We visited this morning. He was his usual “super manja” self. Even both the vets said so. He’d rub himself all over…

At about 5pm today, Vincent’s vet updated me with a video and photograph of Vincent. The vet decided to put Vincent on IV-drips since he was very dehydrated. We hope Vincent feels better soon, with the help of the drips for rehydration. It would be certainly more effective than drinking water orally or subcut fluids.…

After a relatively uneventful two years, Vincent’s stomatitis has flared up again. Sigh…we know that there is no cure for stomatitis. We can only manage it. Throughout the two years after his two tooth extractions, Vincent’s condition has been stable. He was on Plague Off for maintenance and that did its job well. We didn’t…

Today, Indy finished the fifth (and last) dose of his antibiotics (Stomorgyl). We took him back to the vet for a follow-up (Vincent went as well – next story). The vet checked Indy’s lymph nodes and they have gone smaller, which is good. As for his mouth ulcers, there is only a very slight improvement.…

For the past ten days or so, Indy had been showing symptoms of gum problems. He would be eating and all of a sudden, he would jerk away, run off and spit out thick saliva. It reminded me of Vincent’s exact symptoms in 2016 when it was diagnosed as stomatitis. We tried various treatments for…

After the little scare yesterday, Ginger started eating again. He only wanted Monge yesterday. This morning, he wanted home-cooked food again, so hopefully, everything will be back to normal. So far, there has been no more vomiting. Here’s Ginger with Tiger, after breakfast. Ginger seems to be very thankful for the trip to the vet’s…

Tiger has epilepsy and is FIV+. Vincent has stomatitis. Both are life-long challenges. Recently, Vincent wasn’t feeling too well. He lost his confidence and would only eat one meal per day, ie. breakfast only. Luckily, he ate a lot and his breakfast was enough to last him a whole day. At other times, he seemed…

Ever since the last trip to the vet’s, Tiger’s wound (with the “fistullas” (tunnels under the skin)) healed and during the 17-day period when he was put on Clavamox, he had no seizures at all. After that, the seizures came back and it has been averaging at 1-2 fits per day. He is still on…

This is Daffodil’s new house. It’s a very small box in the kitchen. She loves it and spends most of her time in it. Daffodil’s tumour ruptured yesterday and there were blood stains all over the floor. But other that that, she’s okay. The tumour is shrinking and drying up and it is very flat…

Today was Tiger’s check-up and the vet was very pleased with his healing. No more flushing is required now. Only the oral antibiotics (one more week) and topical application of povidone iodine and the Polybamycin ointment.  Hopefully, there will be no secondary abscesses. The vet shaved a little bit more upwards just to check and…

All the wounds are healing. And finally, now we know that the soft masses on the side, which joined up and became one big soft mass, is also an abscess. Either it ruptured or Tiger bit it. I noticed some liquid oozing out of a tiny puncture hole this afternoon, so I dabbed it all…