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Cat Forum / Health and Behavior / February 2004Strange case
I have a co worker in a rural area with a ten y.o., neutered male cat. This area is extremely rural mind you with just a country vet. The cat, around Christmas time, was throwing up so badly that he was really, really in poor shape. The vet said he though maybe there was a mass. He suggested they open up the cat to see. My coworker actually helped the vet (small town, you know how it is "Sure, pull up a chair") and the opened the cat and he says they pulled everything out taking a look see. Could not find a single thing wrong. However, the cat did stop breathing once, they massaged him and he came back. They put everything back in and sewed the cat up. The coworker kept kitty in all that next month. Cat healed up and is now going strong with no throw up problems. Vet speculates maybe there was a kink in the intestines? Is this even feasible? like colic? Anyhoo, strange story I had to share. Karen It happens sometimes. We call it letting out the bad gas! > I have a co worker in a rural area with a ten y.o., neutered male cat. This > area is extremely rural mind you with just a country vet. The cat, around [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > > Karen >My coworker actually helped the vet (small town, you know >how it is "Sure, pull up a chair") a Oh, Lordy, do I ever know. I went in to the vet's office to pick up an HS dog, nobody was in the front so I yelled "Yoo hoo" and he yells, "Come on back". The tech was puttering around the next room tending to other dogs. I start telling him why I'm there, and he goes, "Here, hold his, would you?" ... it was a clamp holding the dog's (I assume) uterus & stuff. Urk. My ears started ringing but I was too prideful to tell him. Didn't inspire much confidence in the vet. The vet I use, I went in their OR on Open House for their new clinic. There were computer screens, all kinds of monitors around the table, but this country vet had really notthing like that. . I guess you get what you pay for. (I have to add, though, this guy has spayed practically all our HS animals and none ever had complications. Could be luck though!) Sherry > I have a co worker in a rural area with a ten y.o., neutered male cat. This >area is extremely rural mind you with just a country vet. The cat, around [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > >Karen Yes! Torsion can and does happen in people and animals. It happened to me in 1966 and it is extremely painful. The doctor straightened out the kink . After that things should be fine unless adhesions cause a problem in the future. Purrs for kitty that things will be fine from now on. > I have a co worker in a rural area with a ten y.o., neutered male cat. This > area is extremely rural mind you with just a country vet. The cat, around [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > intestines? Is this even feasible? like colic? Anyhoo, strange story I had > to share. As one vet I know says, sometimes you just need to "let all the bad humors out" :-)!!! It's actually not all that unusual to do an exploratory surgery for something like vomiting, find nothing, but then have the animal do better afterwards. Not that common, but not that unusual (if that makes sense). I couldn't begin to tell you how it happens, or why, but if the end result is a healthy animal, then who am I to question it? I guess it's like that therapeutic trailer ride for colicking horses -- you just never know. Deborah, DVM > > I have a co worker in a rural area with a ten y.o., neutered male cat. > This [quoted text clipped - 23 lines] > > Deborah, DVM Begins to make me wonder if my cat that mysteriously vomits all the time and has gas with no traceable reason shouldn't be openned up! Actually, my coworker wouldn't have done it, but I guess the cat was really in a bad way. No, I wouldn't do that, but this is quite interesting. Karen Not so strange. Happens a lot in exploratories. No one actually knows why. Rural vet has a reasonable explanation. Don't be suprised at these country vets. They see alot. Mary Ellen > I have a co worker in a rural area with a ten y.o., neutered male cat. This > area is extremely rural mind you with just a country vet. The cat, around [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > > Karen
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