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@mypetsarejerks
Enjoy me getting slowly getting more and more stressed because this old ass dog was sleeping through everything until I finally panicked enough that I gave him a full body shake. Clearly he's alive but I thought maybe he had another heart attack or something else and couldn't get up 🙃
I haven't posted since saying goodbye to G'mork last year and seeing that as my last post almost made me not want to post. I miss him so much. But I figured I should give an update on Ammo and Shredder in case anyone was interested.
I found a new place to live this Spring, a place with our very own yard! I signed the lease and literally that same week Ammo tried his very hardest to die. He got hepatitis and it was awful. He lost like 10lbs in a week (and he's lucky to even hit 50lbs on a good day). He got so weak that he could hardly move, wouldn't eat and the second he laid down he had so little energy he was literally asleep within seconds. His fever wouldn't break and he kept getting worse. I actually took him in on the Thursday before the long weekend to get him put down as I didn't want him to keep suffering. The vet decided we should fight through it and syringe feed him and so I took him home and started force feeding him and he did turn it around, fever started coming down after 2 days and after 5-6 days he was eating a bit on his own and moving better. A while later the vet did admit he thought he wasn't going to make it, but it ended up being the right call as he's still here.
Obviously I wouldn't handle his passing well no matter what but had he died just after I got him a yard, without him ever getting to use it, I would've hated the yard.
Then we had the long process of recovery and he was stumbling and having to lean against walls and couldn't get onto the bed. I tried to be patient but after 6-8 weeks I did ask the vet if there was a "timeframe" where I might worry that he's not going to get physically back to "normal", and given that he's 14 (15 next month!), the vet said it could be months and months.... literally that weekend he ran around the yard 😅 I actually think he's still improving. At his annual appointment we discussed end of life and what is ok for old age stuff and what would be bad days, and then he's continued to get better so I feel like I was still seeing lingering recovery from the hepatitis and thinking his time was coming sooner than it might be. Someone even asked if he was a young puppy the other day lmao, I was like nooo? He's the oldest man ever?? He's actually been a bit of a pain in the ass lately and a menace and doing things like ripping holes in the sheets when he's trying to play. Hard to get mad at that though when he was literally in deaths doorstep just months ago!
As for Shredder, I think he noticed the lots of G'mork, no where near as bad as me, but still a bit affected. The "worst" part for him is probably that Ammo and G'mork were so playful together and as Ammo has been getting healthier he's been trying to play with Shredder. Shredder engages a bit but he's not quite up to G'morks level of enthusiasm haha. They do sleep quite close together now and I don't remember quite such closeness in previous naps.
Health-wise, Shredders diabetes is driving me nuts. He's so on the line of diabetic and not and can need Insulin twice a day for weeks and in the middle of it have one reading so low that if I gave him a dose he'd most likely go into Hypoglycemic shock. So as much as I feel bad he has to be tested before every meal to be safe. His other issues seem to all be calm and he's also loving the supervised yard time.
Lastly, since I get half grossed out and half amused reactions, the other update is Ammos old man bodily functions. I know it's somewhat or fairly common for older dogs to be more easily excitable, and with that Ammo has started humping when he gets excited... however, he takes it one step past that and if he's overcome with the need to hump, he now "finishes" as well 😭 it's super gross to have to be on the look out for random dog ejaculation on your floor! Even the vet was a bit speechless when I asked and not sure he's heard of anything like that, especially since there doesn't seem to be anything "wrong" with him 🫠 now he's just a dirty old man 🙃
Ignore the mess, but here they are taking up the bed
Congrats on officially naming Bianca 💕💕💕 how wonky is her spine? I'd be curious to see an xray sometime. I've also got a kitty with a bit of a wonky spine (injury from before i adopted her) so I'm always a bit curious. I know Bianca's going to love Arthur so much once she learns how to play with him!
Listen, I’m going to show you the x-ray but beforehand I need to address something to all the people who know anything about radiographs. I took this myself and I know it’s not good. I took 3 laterals and each one turned out worse than the last. And since it’s just my cat and not a client’s I told Doc I was just going to give up. She was just so tiny and squirmy.
Also read more bc I ramble a lot.
I read that last part as "though she may not be as aesthetic as a normal cat would be."
And I was thinking, I really don't think that's the top concern in this household lol
We are saying goodbye this afternoon. Even though I knew it was coming, I am absolutely heartbroken. I don't want to say bye
In my desperate attempts to get food into G'mork to stave off the upcoming end, today's trick that worked was high calorie kitten food. Though he wouldn't touch it until I pretended to eat it and then I also had to spoon it out onto my desk and laptop 🙃
Not ideal, but if that's what it takes to keep him eating I'll bathe the laptop in cat food at this point
Tw: pet death mention in the tags
Duncan pooped on the floor and Arthur is such a good big brother that he came over and tried to cover it up for him
G'mork did this for Shredder once but accidentally got it on his paw, so as he tried to cover it he created a new streak of poop so he moved forward to cover that and created another steak and kept doing that until I stopped him 😂
Look at Shredder this past weekend, blissfully unaware of his upcoming vet appointments and surprise surgery 🥺
$2850 in vet bills this week 😞
Shredder has bloodwork and ultrasound on Monday to try and give me piece of mind that his puking/diarrhea issues are just IBD (though I know it wouldn't be a 100% diagnose but would help narrow things down).
Got the report Tuesday and the ultrasound tech said he had a foreign body going from his stomach, all the way through his small intestine and part way through the large. So the vet rearranged his schedule to fit Shredder in today to remove it.
Got the call after the surgery to find out there was nothing in there. He couldn't find a foreign body at all 🙃
He does have some messed up guts though 😕
The entire small intestine is extremely thickened ("it's like a fire hose", were the vets exact words). The liver is off color, the pancreas is inflamed, and lymph nodes are enlarged.
He does have the beginning stages of kidney disease, so I'm assuming that's the liver coloring. And the vet/ultrasound Dr were thinking he has triaditis (hepatitis/pancreatitis/IBD).
But still, that sounds like an awful lot going on in one little guy. And if the main treatment is really just going to be steroids for the IBD, then this ultrasound to confirm IBD that turned into surgery for a non existent foreign body was technically not necessary. So trying to do the best but him and get all information turned out worse for him (and my bank account 💀).
The vet did biopsy the stomach, small intestine and lymph node to rule out lymphoma but also really give as an almost concrete diagnosis of IBD? Rather than what normally happens where they can assume and treat based on symptoms.
Either way, I'm feeling super duty m shitty and mentally drained from this whole thing. And just feeling so stressed about Shredder having so many issues :(
I also don't know how well my fight to keep him from jumping is going to go. It's day one and he's already outsmarted me 3 times to jump onto the bed and he's still doped up on meds, so he's gonna be a nightmare when he's more lucid.
I did efficiently solve the issue of finding somewhere in the ground for him to eat that Ammo can't get to:
Guess which dog hates the new lawnmower the most….
Lmao I'm dying at his face
I got the most terrifying/appropriate ad on your blog just now?
The sequel:
I've gotten one of the above as well, and now this one (and so far I only see them on your blog lol)
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In case anyone wants to know more about G'mork and Shredder
Tw: animal death :(
Because why wouldn't I have to deal with a second dead animal encounter in the same weekend :(
There was a dead kitty on the side of the road. :( Which, normally, I would pick up to take to a vet so if it's someone's pet with a microchip they could be notified. But it's Sunday morning of a long weekend so my only option was the emergency vet. But if it's a stray or even if it was microchipped but the people didn't answer the phone call the vet said they'd have to give me the cat back. Like wtf is wrong with them. They're literally a vet! Don't they have the facilities for a dead pet so they could keep it until someone could be contacted or it could be properly disposed of. Wtf am I, just some random person, supposed to do with someone's dead cat?? It was very upsetting :(
My mental health is not enjoying this weekend :/
Tw: animal death (not one of the pets)
Probably not something that anyone needs to read but I just have to get it off my chest because the whole thing was upsetting
Stopped on the side of the road today as someone had hit a fawn and didn't stop and the poor thing was severely struggling. Another woman stopped and we both called around to see if any conservation officers or police were in the area to come put it down otherwise I was going to drive it to a wildlife rescue place that would be able to put it down.
Then a couple also stopped and they were awful. Maybe but intentionally but I was definitely not a fan. The lady got her phone out to video/get pictures of her petting the poor thing until me and the first woman convinced her not to (she said you had comfort it like a dog and I was like "it's clearly not a fucking a dog!!") Especially since the poor thing would panic and try to get up and flop into the road :(
Then the guy with her said "oh well maybe it wants some peanuts!" And ran to get peanuts out of their vehicle. Luckily he didn't try to pursue it after he brought the peanuts back and we said no. I think I would've had to physically intervene if the guy had actually tried to feed the poor thing peanuts.
When the cops did show up and told us we had to leave so they could dispatch it the lady's response was "oh, I don't mind watching!". With her phone in hand like she was ready to get another video.
When the cop said no you have to leave she turned to me and asked if she could give me a hug! What. I said no and got out of there. I was very bothered that they had the air of really wanting to help but with the camera out and petting it, it just was pretty awful. Like I said, maybe it all just came across the wrong way and they really just wanted to help but I was very bothered by them.
And that poor little baby :( I think I was there for a good 20 minutes before the cops showed up and I imagine it had been at least another 10 before I even got there. It felt like a lifetime to me but that poor thing must have been in terrible pain and so stressed for that whole time it was super upsetting :(. I really appreciate the lady who stopped first since she saw it when it got hit and moved it off the road and out of traffic and was having a hard time phoning people. We both shed a few tears but at least we were able to get the cops there and the poor thing didn't just get left to suffer
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In the hospital about to go in for a left hemicolectomy (removing part of my bowel). Definitely a bit nervous, but more so sad about a week away from the pets lol
Ammo actually went to a place like 3 hours away. That's the furthest we've ever been apart. And that shouldn't really matter but I definitely feel more sad than last time when he was just on the other side of town!
My sister will stay with the cats so hopefully they aren't too stressed since she's stayed with them before
My surgery that was expected to last 2.5-4.5hrs ended up taking 7hrs. Everything seems to have went well and I even managed to avoid a temporary stoma (now I just have to not have a leak either otherwise they have to cut me wide open).
But man oh man, this is some serious pain. I don't know what I was expecting, but it makes sense it's a lot but wow, it's just so much 😭 I can't even wipe myself as it's too painful. But I got to come off my IV today and almost close enough to come off oxygen so hopefully that happens tomorrow
In the hospital about to go in for a left hemicolectomy (removing part of my bowel). Definitely a bit nervous, but more so sad about a week away from the pets lol
Ammo actually went to a place like 3 hours away. That's the furthest we've ever been apart. And that shouldn't really matter but I definitely feel more sad than last time when he was just on the other side of town!
My sister will stay with the cats so hopefully they aren't too stressed since she's stayed with them before
