CAJUNLAWYER
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Daughter's cat lives with us cause she can't have it at her apartment. Cat is 16 years old. Anyway cat is "not right" so momma takes it to the vet. (takes the other cat too but"Pud"is fit as a fiddle so this story ain't about him). Daughter's cat stays a week-she is weak, kidney problems yada yada yada (read this is gonna cost me). Sent home with a couple of bottles of ringers lactate with instructions to wife to give the cat 200ml in the morning and 100 ml in the evening to flush out the kidneys. With a needle. As in sticking the needle in the cat and letting the fluid go in subcutaneously. As in doing it in several places so the fluid can disburse throughout the cat. This ain't gonna end well
so I ask what the cat is going to be doing while my wife is doing all of this. She says that my other daughter can hold the cat and pet it while it is getting IV's and besides, the vet said it was no big deal.
SO this morning I'm getting ready to go to work when I hear "get over hear and hold down the cat"
That was the longest ten minutes I have ever spent in my life!!! That cat made noises that I never knew a cat could make. It growled, it roared,it hissed it clawed it snapped at my hands and my wife is screaming at me to keep the ^*&%ing cat still. Now all this time we have 3 of us holding this cat down and administering an IV and Angus is poking his nose around wanting to get in on the fun which just adds another level to the pissed offedness of the cat! Wife pokes it 4-5 times to get the 200 ml in and then on the count of 3 all of us let it go.Poor cat got up and wobbled around bow-legged on the floor looking like it had just made the rounds with every tomcat in the neighborhood (think Bill the Cat). Angus makes the mistake of sticking his nose in the cat's butt and gets a swipe across his nose for his troubles. I opened the front door and cat was g-o-n-e!!
My wife said well tonight ought to go easier-we just have to put 100 ml in her. I'm thinking yea right-that cat ain't gonna let ANYONE near her tonight.
so I ask what the cat is going to be doing while my wife is doing all of this. She says that my other daughter can hold the cat and pet it while it is getting IV's and besides, the vet said it was no big deal.
SO this morning I'm getting ready to go to work when I hear "get over hear and hold down the cat"
That was the longest ten minutes I have ever spent in my life!!! That cat made noises that I never knew a cat could make. It growled, it roared,it hissed it clawed it snapped at my hands and my wife is screaming at me to keep the ^*&%ing cat still. Now all this time we have 3 of us holding this cat down and administering an IV and Angus is poking his nose around wanting to get in on the fun which just adds another level to the pissed offedness of the cat! Wife pokes it 4-5 times to get the 200 ml in and then on the count of 3 all of us let it go.Poor cat got up and wobbled around bow-legged on the floor looking like it had just made the rounds with every tomcat in the neighborhood (think Bill the Cat). Angus makes the mistake of sticking his nose in the cat's butt and gets a swipe across his nose for his troubles. I opened the front door and cat was g-o-n-e!!My wife said well tonight ought to go easier-we just have to put 100 ml in her. I'm thinking yea right-that cat ain't gonna let ANYONE near her tonight.
