Katie Carpenter Instagram – Stan’s home!! 🐈⬛🥳
After a scary wake up to cat howls yesterday morning, an emergency vet visit, overnight stay, and a $3k bill, our little guy is back.
He had a urinary obstruction and his bladder was the size of a grapefruit 😳 This condition can be fatal in cats (esp. males) in as little as 24 hours if it’s not treated.
I’ve been doing lots of research about this, and it’s quite common. I found a blog that was pretty heartbreaking as it had countless owners talking about their cats passing from this – either due to the condition developing too quickly, or repeat expensive vet visits they couldn’t afford so they made the impossible choice to euthanize. 🥲
It’s really sad that our pets (and even sometimes human lives) can come down to money.
We luckily had enough for this bill, but not another one anytime soon. Chances are that this will probably occur again for him. So we plan to make some changes that are fairly affordable and humane to give our guy the best life he can have!
– Making the switch to wet food. Cats’ diets need moisture in them and kibble doesn’t give them enough in its own. I read that it’s very important to give them extra fluids, by either soaking dry food or giving wet food, especially for boy cats!
– Dust free litter. So cat litter doesn’t go in his little pee-pee 🤭 potentially causing another obstruction.
– Using apple cider vinegar if we notice more flare ups. Farmers swear by this and I found an entire YouTube video comment section saying this saved their cats from having a blockage!
– Keeping it calm. They said an underlying possibility is stress. Stan seems unphased by everything, but we’ll do our best to keep him that way. 😆
Thanks for all your well wishes for Stan!! Our animals are our family so we’re very happy to be reunited.
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