Took our cat to the vet....
August 19, 2018 at 11:49 am
(This post was last modified: August 19, 2018 at 11:51 am by Aroura.)
One of our cats recently started having trouble pooping. He yowled in obvious pain when he went to use the litter box. We took him to the vet, he got some xrays, and it turns out that the hard food (that I told my husband NOT to give the cats) made him constipated. He was very backed up and they gave him an IV of saline, an enema, and told us to give him some oil by mouth at home and come back the next day to repeat the treatment. Told us to go back to the good wet canned food (good brand, not like Whiskas garbage) that he was on before.
We did everything as requested. The cat pooped a bunch, he'll be fine. But while at the vet the second time, she insisted that she also give him some oil (not sure if she believed we had done so, but we had). She actually sent her assistant to the store to buy some canola oil and then they practically sat on the cat and pried his jaws open and shot it down his throat. He immediately started hacking and coughing, they had gotten it into his lungs.
I can get it into his mouth without any issue, and without violently squirting it down his throat, so....
Anyway, 2 days later and the cat keeps having these dry coughing fits. He just wheezes and coughs and hacks for minutes, about every 20 or 30 minutes. He is able to sleep a few hours at a time, but as soon as he wakes, it's back to coughing. He's not feverish, he's eating fine, and otherwise active like normal.
What should we do? No way we are taking him back to the same vet that actually caused it. Any advice would be appreciated.
P.S. She gave us a bottle of homeopathic something or another despite us adamantly telling her no, and charged us for it anyway. It seems homeopathy is quite the rage in east Germany right now. Huzzah.
We did everything as requested. The cat pooped a bunch, he'll be fine. But while at the vet the second time, she insisted that she also give him some oil (not sure if she believed we had done so, but we had). She actually sent her assistant to the store to buy some canola oil and then they practically sat on the cat and pried his jaws open and shot it down his throat. He immediately started hacking and coughing, they had gotten it into his lungs.
I can get it into his mouth without any issue, and without violently squirting it down his throat, so....
Anyway, 2 days later and the cat keeps having these dry coughing fits. He just wheezes and coughs and hacks for minutes, about every 20 or 30 minutes. He is able to sleep a few hours at a time, but as soon as he wakes, it's back to coughing. He's not feverish, he's eating fine, and otherwise active like normal.
What should we do? No way we are taking him back to the same vet that actually caused it. Any advice would be appreciated.
P.S. She gave us a bottle of homeopathic something or another despite us adamantly telling her no, and charged us for it anyway. It seems homeopathy is quite the rage in east Germany right now. Huzzah.
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