kitty scare -- all okay

[chelseagirl]

Yesterday evening, Scorpy (the cat in the icon, though he's fullgrown now; sooner or later I will learn to make icons) started to act funny. He was yowling, which he's never done before, and there was something odd about the way he was carrying himself.

Now, I've had cat trauma off the charts. One evening I was cooking and Prince Myshkin came to see me and was fine; five minutes later he howled from the other room and died (heart failure). Alexander started manifesting FIP the evening before his neutering was scheduled; he died within the week. Nicky struggled with his diabetes for six months, but they never managed to regulate it. He was rehydrated and resuscitated once; when it happened again a month later I let him go.

So just maybe I'm a bit paranoid. Yowling and funny movements of the back half of a cat have been early symptoms of tragic results in the past.

Well, apparently I am a bit paranoid. I cabbed Scorpy up to Animal Medical Center uptown, since our vet is closed on Saturday evenings; M., who was training somebody and got let go early from work that night, met us there. They couldn't find anything wrong, thank goodness. Poor M., who is extraordinarily attached to the little guy, tossed and turned all night worrying, and he was more convinced than I was that I'd done the right thing.

Right now Scorpy is lying on the computer desk as I type this, legs sprawled out in all directions and sleepy and sweet.

Comments

[ajinamoto.livejournal.com]

Oh no! I wonder what happened. I didn't know you had so many cat losses, I remember Nicky. Wow, I would have thought the worst too.

I'm glad he's okay. Did they have any idea what might have happened?

Sending skritches to Scorpy.

Our pets truly become something special in our lives.

[chelseagirl.livejournal.com]

Myshkin was before I was online; my law school roommate and I adopted him our last year and I kept him because she moved away from NY. Alexander was the little guy I had after Nicky; I guess I only had him for 4 1/2 months, from kittenhood to death. Meanwhile Cabell watches her cat-roommates come and go with increasing impatience towards kittenish behavior.

They didn't know. Embarrassingly, M. thinks he may have had some kind of constipation; even the next morning he kept saying that Scorpy's "ass was weird".

Scorpy thanks you for skritches!

[carocrow.livejournal.com]

I would have done that, too. Don't second-guess yourself, animals are like babies, they can't tell you what's going on so you have to guess. That's frightening.

If you email me a picture you'd like to use, I can try to make you an icon out of it.

[chelseagirl.livejournal.com]

Thanks. I might just do that!

[bethynyc.livejournal.com]

I hope Scorpy is okay! What did the vet say???

[chelseagirl.livejournal.com]

He's good now. It may have been nothing at all.

It, uh, might have been constipation. Even the next am, M. was saying "Scorpy's ass is a bit weird."

This is just the first time it *was* nothing among all my cats, so I'm trying not to kick myself for being an hysteric and for wasting vast sums of money on vet bills and taxis . . .

[leela-cat.livejournal.com]

Good. Glad Scorpy's doing fine.

I think you did exactly the right thing, taking him to the vet.

If you want a more up to date icon (or two) of him, send me the picture(s). I'll be happy to make the icons.

[chelseagirl.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I will as soon as I manage to remember how to download pictures from the digital camera to the computer. I need life to slow down a bit!

[leela-cat.livejournal.com]

No rush. Honestly. My life isn't exactly slowing down very much either.

[silme.livejournal.com]

Hey, better safe than sorry. Kitties are our children. Think how much I spent flying mine over here and then on the quarantine, but boy, it's been worth it!