I have a rather distressed hiding Tobias this afternoon, due to an unscheduled and therefore un-drugged vet visit just now.
His dodgy tummy has meant he's going 4-5 times every day that I know of and almost completely liquid poo, possibly more. He's been drinking more the last couple of weeks (over twice as much) than during the heat waves let alone normal temps. His pee stinks like an elderly Tom cats. I found a vomit that was mostly digested last night, then another this morning. What worried me possibly the most was that this morning he declined his routine "mum is leaving for work now" chicken! Thought about this for an hour or so at work, called the vet and they said better bring him in today rather than leave it over the weekend what with his gut issues and FIV.
Mad dash home from work, Annie already alerted to get to mine to help me get him crated & then carry him. Normally we have to seriously drug him up with Gabapentin, but he gave one protesting hiss then let himself be picked up & crated. At the vets he just lay in his crate (with the lid removed) until the vet took him out to put him on the scales, and then he just sort of slumped in there while she examined him - VERY not Tobias. The only hiss was when she inserted the thermometer, and that was half hearted.
There's definitely signs on palpation that his lower bowel wall issue has thickened a fair bit more over the last year, and he definitely felt pain when she was checking that. He was also a little dehydrated, despite the extra water he's drinking. He had an anti emetic jab, and they managed to rehydrate him a bit with a couple of sub-cutaneous injections of water. I've also got an anti emetic tab, which he needs to have a quarter of every day. They wanted to take bloods as well, but he was VERY definite in refusing that! I'll take him in either next week or the week after for that, depending on how he goes. Oh, and try to feed him plain chicken or egg for most of his meals for the next couple of days, though I'm not sure how he or Girlcat will take that. But he does quite like scrambled egg.
We were hoping that his health would remain stable after the FIV & bowel issues diagnoses, but sadly it looks like the bowel is progressing. I'm just going to have to keep a close eye on him, & get him in for 6 monthly check ups rather than annually.
I've just heard him slinking past the study on his was upstairs from being behind the sofa, bless him.