I recently changed vets and took my cat to the new surgery. The vet noted that her ears were full of wax and needed a flush. They also took blood tests to check for allergies and swabs to check for infections.
She's utterly terrified of vet visits and I always find it so stressful, but told myself it was for the best. Dropped her off at 8am, still hadn't heard anything by 330pm so rang the vet for an update. Usually - and as is the case with every vet I've been with - I get a call early afternoon to update me, so I was a bit worried. Turns out they'd had an emergency and hadn't started our cat's procedure. So she had been there alone and unfed all day and no-one had called me.
Finally picked her up at 6. She has been a shadow of herself since. Terrified of everything, really nervous, not eating very much. I feel awful. The vet has called to say that she has some allergies and a very bad ear infection. We have drops but she bolts every time I go near her at the moment. She's so on edge all the time, barely eating, I don't think I can add to that fear by holding her down to put drops in her ear.
The vet wants her back in for her post op check - I can't do it. I know she needs treatment but she's also old. She's 11 and just so so scared after this procedure - more than she ever has been. I can only assume that it's due to her having been left hooked up to a drip for 8 hours, conscious, before undergoing her treatment.
I will move vets - regardless of whether what they did was the right or wrong thing I don't trust them anymore, but in the meantime she still has this ear infection. What do I do? What would you do? Can she have an antibiotic injection instead of the drops?