oh mal

[tielan]

Mal's been off her feed since yesterday afternoon when I got home. Usually she's first to the door, demanding her munchies. She didn't eat at all last night, although she laid into the grass that I picked for her to chew on, but just vomited up the stalks in bile. And this morning the bile was pinkish - probably tinged with blood.

Otherwise, she was fine; happy to curl up and purr, to snooze and sit. But that tinge worried me.

I have the sinking suspicion that she's eaten something she shouldn't. Either a piece of fish with bone in it (I was blending up some for the chooks, and might not have been particularly neat about it), or possibly a string of dental floss that I wasn't so careful about rolling up and throwing out?

There's a work lunch on this afternoon, which I'm going to skip to get her to the vet. (It goes all afternoon - from 1pm to 4:30pm - and I'm invited, but hardly necessary.) I guess I'll see how she is when I get home...

Comments

[colls]

Best of luck with your cat.

My cat, Malcolm (never 'Mal' for short - haha), has had a similar blood-tinged bile thing before. It was lots of lab work and some sub-Q fluids and he eventually got his appetite back and has been fine since - still don't know what caused it.

[tielan]

Well, Mal was originally 'Malcolm' until they realised she was a girl. She came to us as 'Mal-but-a-girl' and my sister promptly called her 'Maladicta' after the character in Pratchett's novel Monstrous Regiment. It was very appropriate, we thought!

I would have left it - sometimes Mal loses her appetite but usually after something specific - but the vomiting bile has me worried.

Thank you!

[umadoshi]

Eeep. I hope she's okay. :(

[tielan]

Thank you!

[jenab]

I hope she's okay.

[tielan]

Thanks!

[crazy4orcas]

I hope she's okay!

[tielan]

Thank you!

[kore]

Oh no, poor kitty. Hope she is better now.

[tielan]

Headed to the vet in three hours. My sister is with her for the next half hour or so, keeping an eye on things.

[monanotlisa]

The bone in fish seems unlikely to be the culprit. I feed our cats fish with small bones all the time, and they're fine.