Eager Elephant's Effective Everyday Excursion ...

mary_hinge

EE I am trying to inbox you but it's full!!:rotfl:

Eager_Elephant

Another PAD today - £10.05.


I have withdrawn £10 from my account - so far I have spent £2.90 on a bus fare home. Will keep tabs on the rest.


Tomorrow is glasses collection day:T




We also have a 50th party, I have got a card but need to get a present.

TizerCat

Hi E-E mind if I join you?

At the risk of appearing ignorant ....whats a PAD?

TC x

Igamogam

TizerCat wrote: »

Hi E-E mind if I join you?

At the risk of appearing ignorant ....whats a PAD?

TC x

Jumping in on EEs thread............... sorry ! PAD stands for Payment A Day - a MSE challenge which can be found here Totally addictive and very effective

Eager_Elephant

Thanks Igamogam for stepping in when I was AWOL!! We need to spread the PAD gospel far and wide!!


Things are looking hairy in the Elephant household - one of our cats (the one who has Legg-Perthes and who swallowed a stone earlier this year and nearly died) is on holiday at the vets:eek:.
He had been off colour for a few days, nothing major just a bit lethargic but still eating and drinking so yesterday we decide he should go to the vets for them to check him over.
First observations are fine, no temperature, no obvious illness and DH is given the option of either taking him home with medication and coming back in 1 week if he is no better to have blood tests or to leave him there for blood tests straight away.
DH decides he should have his blood tests straight away as cat gets travel sick and it is not fair on him - thank god he did.
Vet rings a few hours later to tell us the cat has acute kidney failure:eek:
Likely causes are lillies (we and the neighbours don't have these), anti-freeze (not us and not sure who would have this at this time of year), Jeyes fluid (not us, we try to use less harmful things) or anything else poisonous.
It doesn't really matter what caused it because treatment is the same - so he is at the vets on a drip and having his kidneys flushed.
They have called this morning to say he is doing great, eating and drinking fine and going to the loo so he has to stay in today (although we can visit later) and they will run more tests tomorrow to check his levels and if they are coming down he can come home but will need a special renal diet and tablets (not sure how long these will be needed - assume if kidneys totally damaged will be for life:eek:)


Crikey knows how much this will cost but I have £275 in the Animal account - I am hoping this will be enough. If not we have some other savings pots we can use.


I tell you, when this cat gets ill he always gets ill good and proper. No half hearted cat bites which get infected (like some of my other cats have), no he always ends up having to stay in - he loves it though as he gets loads of attention from the nurses and assistants!!


We are actually thinking it is something from the neighbours - we have skanky neighbours on one side, they have chickens which they don't look after properly and now they have rats (which keep coming under the fence into our garden) and I am sure she told me a few weeks ago that she had put rat poison down - our cat is a hunter and always brings things home so we wonder if he has caught and eaten a rat which had eaten rat poison - neighbour denies she has put down poison. Plus her husband is always tinkering with cars and bikes and their drive is a tip, it wouldn't surprise me if he has left something out and the cat has drunk it (we always have loads of bowls of fresh water all over the garden so he shouldn't need to drink elsewhere but you know cats!)




Yesterday we also had a party to go to - I had already got the card (59p) and popped in to a shop and managed to get a planter with 3 pots for £9.99 (half price) - the recipient was well chuffed.


We spent money on drinks to take there but my uncle treated us to a kebab and chips on the way home.


It was a really great night with not much money spent.


Today was supposed to be about moving goats to a new home but the other people have let us done so they are staying and we will do housework and gardening today - just have to collect DD from Nannies after 12.30pm.


Have done a PAD of £10.06 for yesterday - hope to sort banking out and pay more later (to cover today)


Hope you are all having a good weekend.

debtfreewannabe321

Crikey EE, poor puddy cat! As I was reading it I was actually thinking, I would take the cat home and see if he picked up over the week, thankfully though you did the opposite and had the tests or else it might have ended up being fatal poor thing. My dog is the same, he has fresh water down all the time, food (biscuits and he gets wet twice a day) but he'd rather starve himself and drink from puddles/dirty things in the garden that have collected rain water and eat the grass and things that have dropped on the floor! I hope he's much better soon for you xxx

Igamogam

Our cats only drink pond water!

pennywisepoundstupid

Sorry to hear about the puddy cat, hope everything will be ok.x.

Eager_Elephant

debtfreewannabe321 wrote: »

Crikey EE, poor puddy cat! As I was reading it I was actually thinking, I would take the cat home and see if he picked up over the week, thankfully though you did the opposite and had the tests or else it might have ended up being fatal poor thing. My dog is the same, he has fresh water down all the time, food (biscuits and he gets wet twice a day) but he'd rather starve himself and drink from puddles/dirty things in the garden that have collected rain water and eat the grass and things that have dropped on the floor! I hope he's much better soon for you xxx

Thanks DFW


My DH seems to have some sort of intuition when it comes to our cats.


When our cat went missing a few years (really friendly cat, rarely left the house) we hunted high and low for him and in the end decided he had probably been run over and either the driver had dumped the body or he had run undercover and died. But when we popped to the nearest town a week later DH said he needed to pop into the vets because he might be there, I told him it would be unlikely - we are 7 miles from this town and if someone found a cat in our little village they would have knocked on a few doors and found out it was our cat.
Lo and behold, they had our cat:eek: - he had been run over at the station and someone had brought him in. He had died :Abut they had kept him in the freezer to see if anyone claimed him.
(Turns out he had got into a car/van in our village that happened to be going to the station and when they opened the door he jumped out straight in to the path of a car - luckily a lady who witnessed it took him to the vet but they couldn't save him)


And now with the current cat it is spooky as well - DH has a very close bond with all our cats (more so than me and the kids) and I think that is why.

Eager_Elephant

We have been to see the cat and he is doing brilliantly - when I think back to Sat am when he was so lethargic and morose to how he was today it was like a miracle.


He was purring, he wanted to rub himself on us and he couldn't leave us alone - which is how he usually is.


He is still doing really well and they will run blood tests in the morning and fingers crossed he can come home tomorrow - more blood tests will follow over the next weeks/months to monitor any damage and then we will know what treatment he has to have.




Have only managed a small PAD of £4.07 - I don't want to pay out too much until we know the cost of the cat.


Forgot to say yesterday that I collected all my glasses (and a pack of contact lenses) - they are all lovely :rotfl:


My MSE news is that we did a shop in Morrisons today - my Halifax debit card was offering 10% cash back valid until today, up to a maximum of £10.00.
While we were in there they had loads of fish and meat reduced so I have stocked the freezer. Some of the fish is for the cat - he is a !!!!!! for medication and we usually have to hide it in fish so thought while it was so cheap we would stock up.
We spent £100.86 which worked well as means we will get maximum cash back.