The Accidental Smallholder Forum
Pets & Working Animals => Cats => Topic started by: Backinwellies on November 22, 2012, 12:40:38 pm
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Socks.. our lovely black and white cat has shrunk to a skeleton... took him to vet this morning,,, no obvious diagnosis so bloods taken. Cant afford extensive tests or treatments so may have to make decision later based on economics not medical grounds ... hate these decisions :-[
....... and before anyone mentions insurence... my dog is insured but my cats are both ex-feral farm kittens and insurence around here for cats is beyond common sense costs.
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Keeping Socks in my thoughts. :fc:
Dans
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:bouquet: :fc: :love: :cat:
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So sorry to hear this - thinking of you :bouquet:
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Oh poor Socks :cat: Lets hope its nothing too serious and he makes a full recovery.
Sally
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My thoughts are with you... I'll never forget the day I had to make that decision with my first cat.
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Hope the prognosis is good. :fc:
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My Rio gets terribly thin at times - perhaps it's just a bad case of worms as well. Hoping, hoping :fc: :fc:
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:bouquet: hope it's not too bad, if he is still eating well etc it may be a case of overactive thyroid which is treatable :fc:
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Well worst news.
Either diabeties or over active thyroid (quite unusual in such a young cat Socks is about 7) .... further tests would be needed to identify....... but as you correctly say Mammyshaz both are treatable .... however Socks is an independant cat who takes off for days on end so daily treatment would not an option even if affordable.
My daughter (23) in tears but also agrees he should not be confined .... he started life free on a farm, lived his life free to visit everyone and get fed by whoever he could talk into it... (he has a huge fan club) so he will have to take a final trip to the vet soon (but not yet!)
The saddest part is he will never get to go to Wales to live on our new smallholding which he would have loved. :gloomy:
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So sorry to hear this :(
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Poor Socks :cat:
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That is so sad but you are making the right decision for Socks. :bouquet: :bouquet:
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:-( :bouquet: Know that he had a good life with you. So sorry to hear this
Dans
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Oh, so sorry to hear about Socks :bouquet: :hug:
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:bouquet: Sorry to hear about Socks.
Our old cat developed over active thyroid. He was older than Socks when diagnosed but lived many years with treatment. Sorry, can't remember how much it cost. He was a stray originally and not easy to give medication to. He stayed very thin even though he had medication but lived until about 18.
Good luck with Socks.
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:gloomy: :gloomy:
Sad day yesterday. Socks took turn for the worst and I had to take him for a final ride to the vets. Tried to be very brave .... but ended up blubbing back to the car.
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RIP little Socks. Now up in pussy heaven with my darling Phoebe..she'll look after him dont despair. :bouquet:
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I'm sorry :hug:
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Dans
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:bouquet: Poor Socks, poor you. :hug:
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Oh, so sorry for your loss :bouquet:
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Thank you everyone.
Great to have such support from people you have never met, but that you know understand .
RIP Socks in that mouse filled pussy cat heaven
Linda
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Oh, poor Socks. Still, it was the right thing to do :bouquet:
Sally
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I hope there's another heaven for all the mice Socks catches up there :innocent: either that or they all play nice :eyelashes:
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A horrible decision to have to make, we would all hope that our pets died peacefully of extreme old age in their bed. You have done the last kind thing for him :bouquet:
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Really feel for you. It's hard having animals but I'm sure most of us feel the same, that we'd rather have that time with them even if it's shorter of duration than we would wish for. Glad Socks had you.