I lost my best friend yesterday
Posted: Sat Nov 05, 2022 12:41 pm
I had to have my cat Billy PTS yesterday!
He had not been eating for a few days and was very lethargic, so I took him to the vet on Thursday last. The vet gave him some hydration fluids and an injection of something to stimulate his appetite, and they said bring him back in the morning and we will have in in our day hospital and run full tests and give iv fluids.
I took him back the next morning and then went home. I had scarcely got indoors when the phone rang, and it was the vet!
She said "We started the procedures and then took his temperature and we found maggots coming out of his anus. He has sufferd a fly strike!"
She explained what that was. Flies get into the anus and lay their eggs, which develop into maggots, and then they start eating away at the rectum.
He was being eaten alive !!
She said there was no treatment that could be given and he had to be euthanised to alleviate his suffering.
I said I would call her back.
I rang round other vets to get other opinions and they confirmed what my own vet had said.
I drove back to my own vet and agreed that they should proceed. They brought him from the day hospital in his carrier and I cuddled and stroked him and he was pleased to see me and was purring whilst they administered the injection and he passed away in my arms.
I brought him home and arranged for him to be taken away for cremation, and I will get his ashes back in a small wooden casket. It will go alongside the caskets from my other two cats that I have lost in recent years.
He had not been eating for a few days and was very lethargic, so I took him to the vet on Thursday last. The vet gave him some hydration fluids and an injection of something to stimulate his appetite, and they said bring him back in the morning and we will have in in our day hospital and run full tests and give iv fluids.
I took him back the next morning and then went home. I had scarcely got indoors when the phone rang, and it was the vet!
She said "We started the procedures and then took his temperature and we found maggots coming out of his anus. He has sufferd a fly strike!"
She explained what that was. Flies get into the anus and lay their eggs, which develop into maggots, and then they start eating away at the rectum.
He was being eaten alive !!
She said there was no treatment that could be given and he had to be euthanised to alleviate his suffering.
I said I would call her back.
I rang round other vets to get other opinions and they confirmed what my own vet had said.
I drove back to my own vet and agreed that they should proceed. They brought him from the day hospital in his carrier and I cuddled and stroked him and he was pleased to see me and was purring whilst they administered the injection and he passed away in my arms.
I brought him home and arranged for him to be taken away for cremation, and I will get his ashes back in a small wooden casket. It will go alongside the caskets from my other two cats that I have lost in recent years.