Well i posted up elsewhere, s i thought i would start a thread.
On sunday morning our cat Suki was acting oddly, panting like a dog. We had our suspisions that she was maybe expecting some kittens. So we went and followed her up the stairs and she was hidden under a chest of drawers! We pulled the bottom drawer out to find her all curled up and a dead 8"long kitten!
WE called the vet and he told us to keep an eye on her etc, she went and ate more food and some water and she was fine, left the kitten and followed us around the house like a lost puppy dog.
But then the panting started again, so i went up 2 bed for a while and she lay next to me sleeping for a good few hours, then through the night too, she curled up to my OH. We woke up to drops of blood on the sheets so we took her straight to the vets.
He suspected there was another kitten still in there, and probably dead. So he needed to do an emergency c-section and also remove her womb at the same time. He said she had a 90% survival rate so we werent worried.
I went off to a meeting for my work (yeah promotion), came home to find my OH in tears on the couch saying Suki is gone...i was like WTF?!
Turns out the baby kitten that was inside her had stopped developing at around 6weeks and had started to malform, whereas the bigger kitten that had been delivered in the drawers had taken all the nutritian it needed, but didnt survive. So she survived the operation, came round, but then all of a sudden went blue (vets words) and passed away, they reckon that the dead kitten inside her gave her septiciemia...so shes had this is her bloodstream for a good 4weeks or so, but no1 wouldve known
She was 10years old, so in a way a good age, but still feels like her lifes been cut short as she was a happy healthy cat.
Im so pissed at myself, we shouldnt have let her get pregnant, but she was always a house cat so never seen the need to get her done.
I think its the shock of it really, i never doubted for a 2nd this would happen, with this routine operation, then its all the silly things she done that we are missing.
I used to get annoyed at her walking over my lappy while i was typing, but id give anything for her to do it now. She would lie at my sons bed till he was asleep then come through to our room and sleep on my pillow at my head, 2night its going to feel odd.
I couldnt bring myself to tell my son, so my OH did it and i dont know how he kept it together, i was a blubbering mess! My son took it ok, but soon burst out in tears, he said he just wants her back for 1 night.
Suki's sister is lost without her, but its weird cos now shes in my sons room, guarding him.
So all in all, weve lost 3 cats in the space of 24hours.
I cant stop crying, i know its silly but she wasnt just a cat, she was our family and we treated her like a little baby lol, i used to all ways say "hello darling" when she would come to me...this is so hard
Well heres our girl. R.I.P Suki (we have our tattoos booked on wednesday to get her paw print) xx
On sunday morning our cat Suki was acting oddly, panting like a dog. We had our suspisions that she was maybe expecting some kittens. So we went and followed her up the stairs and she was hidden under a chest of drawers! We pulled the bottom drawer out to find her all curled up and a dead 8"long kitten!
WE called the vet and he told us to keep an eye on her etc, she went and ate more food and some water and she was fine, left the kitten and followed us around the house like a lost puppy dog.
But then the panting started again, so i went up 2 bed for a while and she lay next to me sleeping for a good few hours, then through the night too, she curled up to my OH. We woke up to drops of blood on the sheets so we took her straight to the vets.
He suspected there was another kitten still in there, and probably dead. So he needed to do an emergency c-section and also remove her womb at the same time. He said she had a 90% survival rate so we werent worried.
I went off to a meeting for my work (yeah promotion), came home to find my OH in tears on the couch saying Suki is gone...i was like WTF?!
Turns out the baby kitten that was inside her had stopped developing at around 6weeks and had started to malform, whereas the bigger kitten that had been delivered in the drawers had taken all the nutritian it needed, but didnt survive. So she survived the operation, came round, but then all of a sudden went blue (vets words) and passed away, they reckon that the dead kitten inside her gave her septiciemia...so shes had this is her bloodstream for a good 4weeks or so, but no1 wouldve known
She was 10years old, so in a way a good age, but still feels like her lifes been cut short as she was a happy healthy cat.
Im so pissed at myself, we shouldnt have let her get pregnant, but she was always a house cat so never seen the need to get her done.
I think its the shock of it really, i never doubted for a 2nd this would happen, with this routine operation, then its all the silly things she done that we are missing.
I used to get annoyed at her walking over my lappy while i was typing, but id give anything for her to do it now. She would lie at my sons bed till he was asleep then come through to our room and sleep on my pillow at my head, 2night its going to feel odd.
I couldnt bring myself to tell my son, so my OH did it and i dont know how he kept it together, i was a blubbering mess! My son took it ok, but soon burst out in tears, he said he just wants her back for 1 night.
Suki's sister is lost without her, but its weird cos now shes in my sons room, guarding him.
So all in all, weve lost 3 cats in the space of 24hours.
I cant stop crying, i know its silly but she wasnt just a cat, she was our family and we treated her like a little baby lol, i used to all ways say "hello darling" when she would come to me...this is so hard
Well heres our girl. R.I.P Suki (we have our tattoos booked on wednesday to get her paw print) xx
