Swmbo and I spent $700.00 on Tubby a few months ago. I posted his pic on THR Roundtable cat thread awhile back. He looked like his name, but one day he seemed to be not so tubby.
We began to notice he was not eating nor was he pooping. We have another cat,Gizmo, so it was not evident for awhile. Started taking him to the vet, jumped through hoops, cha ching. Xrays, medicine, special food, etc, back and forth, cha ching cha ching. He was not getting better, actually worse. Staggering around, hiding under the bed etc.
Finally, on a Saturday we were going to pick him up once again and I had determined to tell the Vet to put Tubby down when I got to the office. I was going to tell swmbo that he had died while we were enroute to the vet so she would not feel like we had done the deed. When I got there, the vet told me that she gave him an enema and he had pooped as a result, and that it was hard, and he had a hard time, but that he seemed to have been bound up, but he was also interested in food. I changed my mind on the needle and we took him home, and he went again. It was hard and black and I found 1/2 shell from a pistachio nut. Come to find out, 3 weeks or so back, one of the g'kids had dropped the shell and Tubby had ate it and it lodged in his gut and he was blocked up as a result.
I don't know why I'm talking about this other than the fact that sometimes you do what you can, if you can. Sometimes you gotta make the hard decisions. I did not particularly care to spend the money, but I could, so I did. If I did not have the resources, I may have had to make a hard decision. I guess I needed to verbalize my wonder about why the vet didn't give him an enema right off the bat and save me $600.00?
Fjorn, you were confronted with a large growth and sick behavior and you did what you thought was right. I empathize with you. If you did not have an emotional reaction and attachment, you would have never posted the account. I am sorry for your loss.
