My poor kitty.

perplexed.com

Poor wee soul, hope he feels better soon. As for OH, well, tell him he's "just a man" ! My Oscar loves eating socks and he also worked out how to open sock drawers to get to them, too. Maybe I should try and stop this after reading about Archie.

Buttonmoons

Probably best on the sock front :rotfl: Archie once chewed up and ate a tampon :eek: I only knew because I found it and the string all mixed in with a pooh! How that went through him and didn't get stuck, yet a bit of dress did, is anyones guess!

It's so weird, when you take the cone off his head he instantly perks up, it's amazing really, he even started killing a mouse earlier, but when you put the cone on, his ears go back and he goes off into a corner. I think it's depressing him! But I noticed his pink nose looks a bit swollen, probably because he has been cleaning himself excessively (for him at any rate, didn't clean himself this much before but he must feel minging) so I've popped it back on, and gave him a thick duvet to sloth on in the living room.

Thankfully he's not biting the stitches but he does lick over them, probably thinks it's something stuck in his non exsistent fur there, and he will try and lick it off.

His front paw looks nice now he licked all the blood off

I'm 99% sure Clio had dissolveable ones when she got neutered. Because I imagine if the vet tried to cut stitches out of her Id remember clearly because she would of attacked her :rotfl: and I can't recall her launching an assault on the vet.

Haven't been getting much sleep as Archie has been sleeping on my bed with me at nights but decides every 10minutes to come sleep ontop of my chest, and whilst he is anorexic right now, it still feels like a ton on your chest, and then I have to gently lift him off and place him down the bottom, then I worry OH will thrash his legs in the night and kick him.

I woke up this morning with him right on my chest, his face on my chin and half my face encircled by the cone, I had a red mark on my cheek for hours :rotfl:

sp1987

We had a dog once that ripped his collar off, then ripped out his stitches. He was taken back for staples. He then ate his collar and ate his staples. He was fine afterwards but he really should have won a Darwin award for that and a few other bits (eating and passing through an entire ice lolly stick whole being another noteable example) .

If you can just keep the collar on to keep them away from the stitches for long enough to get the healing underway you'll be alright.

c6h4m1

Poor Archie, I'm glad he's feeling a bit better now. He'll soon put the weight back on, they bounce back remarkably well.

As for your OH, I think I'd be tempted to feed him something that makes him really ill then ignore him when he's writhing on the floor in agony. You can tell him "well, you're only a human" if he asks why.... I'm evil My OH would never dream of saying "it's only a cat" - he knows he'd have his marching orders but anyway he's as soft as I am with our cats.

Buttonmoons

I just sent OH a vicious email because yet again, this morning, all the doors were left open. This is how Archie got the dress, as OH left the linen closet open. I don't want to have to get up at 6am to ensure that the kitchen and cupboard ARE CLOSED.

So really, it is his fault Archie ate the dress, and I swear to blog, if he does it again, I'm going nuclear on him. It really is not hard to close a door. He is a lazy toerag.

I just don't want either of the cats going into the cupboards, deciding to pee on a jacket (as like before) or eating something.

He seems very sleepy today, but I bet if I took the cone off, he'd perk up but he keeps taking a runner when I try and put the cone back on :rotfl: so I'll take it off for a few hours when I get back from picking DD up from nursery.

The cream cheesy pills are still going down a treat, and the other cat who is biscuit phobic, has been scoffing the hills I/D ones (what does I/d stand for?) like it's going out of fashion, has given her a lovely coat. Shame her behaviour is terrible. Not sure why she is acting up, but I had to spray her with the water bottle early this morning as she decided to start ripping up the carpet outside my bedroom door again, and it's already baldy in that area and tufty. She even bit DD :eek:!! and DD being 3, can irritate the cats sometimes but she has never bit her before, and DD was just sitting on the beanbag watching Dora the Explorer, she just walked past and attacked her!

Tut!

teresacat

It never ceases to amaze me how some people are so unfeeling towards an animal's suffering. Well done Buttonmoons for ignoring the OH's guff; I hope you manage to ignore him again when he's ill and needs a doc!
On a serious note, it is a timely reminder to ensure your pets are insured. Last year I ran up a vet bill of £3,500 but the insurance paid up no problem- I didn't even have to pay it myself first. I would have cleaned loos 24/7 to pay if off if necessary, but the insurance meant that I didn't have to worry about money at a time when my dog was seriously ill. And all for just £11 a month! Cats are even cheaper- I pay a total of £20 a month for 4 pedigrees, and the peace of mind is sooooo worth it :-)

Buttonmoons

I'm pretty unfeeling towards him when he has manflu, in fact he gets turfed out of the bed as it makes his snoring worse and he is liable to get a broken rib as it irks me something rotten!!

Argos seem pretty reasonable from quotes I did before. I think I'll go give them a call and see what their T&C's are about cats with no injections and see if Archie is still covered for gut related problems, as it was a one off!

I deffo don't want to be caught out again, luckily we could afford it, and I just ignored OH's whinges about what the money could be better spent on- his ideas (gadgets, computers games Zzzzzzz)

The money would of just went into the savings account anyways and what are savings for if not for a treat or emergency!

Buttonmoons

Ok, I have now have insured pets *wwwwwooooooo!*

£12.93 for the both of them, and that's the platinum insurance that is 7000 a year and provides continuous treatment if they have an ongoing condition.

I also asked about the injections and it just means they won't be covered if they get anything that could of been prevented from injections, but that's fine for now, they don't go outside to catch things from fighting etc. If and when we move, I'll get them microchipped and injected as I would let them outside and I just need to notify the pet insurance.

Archie costs a few quid more than the female as apparently young males are more of a liability (well he proved that :rotfl:)

And the woman on the phone said he wouldn't be excluded for eating that thing because it's not an on going condition, if he had broke his leg and then got athritus in his leg, then they would exclude that.

So all good!!

Apricot

:jGreat news that you've sorted the insurance. It's peace of mind that if anything else does happen, you don't have to consider the cost before allowing the vet to go ahead. Im with Argos and pay about the same as you per month - I bought mine online and they didn't even ask about injections?

Glad Archie seems to be going from strength to strength and hopefully he has learnt his lesson! There was a bright pink feather sticking out of coco's poo this morning - I think they would be a pair well matched :rotfl:

Buttonmoons

I just did mine over the phone as wanted to query things, missed out on cashback and the 5% off no doubt :rotfl: though said I would get the multi pet discount which is roughly the same.

i asked about the injections as Im sure I had seen on other insurance sites that you couldnt get insurance unless the pet was upto date on vacs.

She said to me that if my cats got sick with something that would be prevented by vaccs (err not sure what they are, Feline aids?!) then they wouldnt pay out, but if i got mine their vaccs at any point and then they got sick id be covered for it.

Yeah, just a shame I didnt get the insurance a few weeks ago, would of saved myself some cash, lol.

A feather :rotfl: He likes those too! I bought him a feather stick thing from the vets last time we were there and he ripped all the feathers off in 1 go, he was growling and wouldn't let go off the stick, him and DD were locked in a tug of war!