She did not know about Easter Lilys and her husband brought one home
this afternoon at around 1pm. Around 2 her male cat, Foster, came in
and meowed, and threw up. They could see two leaves in the food. She
immediately wondered about the new plant and looked it up and
discovered how toxic they are. She had the cat to the emergency vets
probably within an hour and a half of his having eaten it (they
actually took both cats because not knowing if the girl had eaten it or
not - and she probably hasn't because she did not vomit). So they are
both at the vet and got the charcoal treatment and are on IVs to flush
their kidney's. They will take a blood test around 1 a m 12 hours out
from the first possible ingestion. From everything I read, it sounds
like they have the best possible scenario for this bad situation but
purrs for Foster and Chloe (though Chloe is probably getting this just
for precautions sake so especially Foster) to have gotten it all out
and not have developed any kidney trouble from this. I did think it was
good he had food in his stomach too, as I would expect that had to
absorb some of any sap. Husband feels guilty, she feels like a horrible
cat mommy for not knowing (and this is on top of quitting her job that
she thought was going to be her dream job and turned into the "Academic
political job from hell" on Wednesday). Purrs would be appreciated from
anyone reading the boards this late.

thanks all

Karen