Took one of my dcats to the vet this afternoon as he'd been rather off-colour all weekend. Locum vet hugely dismissive but ran some blood tests.
Glad I pushed because it turns out my poor moglet's creatinine is elevated. Today cost me £133 & all I have is the Worrying News. Am expecting to have to go back tomorrow to see Senior Vet (who is splendid, at least) - unhelpful twitvet said they might want to do an ultrasound &/or more [blood]tests. Cat is insured with Petplan (as is his brother) on the For Life thing, but as I'm on disability benefits, paying out in the first place is painful. (Although I would clearly sell one of own kidneys on black market to fund vet care for dcat. They're one of the bits that work ok. In fact, I've had abnormal result alerts on them for working too well. And yes, I'm busily wishing I could magically transfer that to my little House Liger...)
Does anyone have any experience of young cats having kidney issues? Ideally ones where the feline had a one-off wonky blood result that mysteriously disappeared overnight?
He is a neutered indoor cat (his choice, outdoors is scary & the cause of actual panic attacks) who gets plenty of exercise. Wet food (organic/human-grade stuff) at breakfast & dry food (the stuff that's around 70% meat & again, organic & full of goodness & whatnot) in the evening & he's a little over 4kg of solid muscle (with correctly-palpable spine). He thinks his bedtime toothpaste stuff is a treat, ACTUAL treats are occasional & again better quality than my own diet. (Though I'm an almost-vegan, so...). (Well & in the summer they got tiny bits of frozen catmilk on all the Very Hot Days.)
But yes. It's just really all a bit scary. Am desperately trying to tell myself that it'll be Nothing. But what if it's not?
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3yo cat: kidney problems
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ZebraOwl · 30/11/2015 21:24
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