Vets, have I been done over?
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Hi
Just after a sanity check
The cat was unfortunately run over. Missing 24 hours, not that unusual. Went searching, heard/found her in a run down garden a few hundred yards away. Cold & wet
Dashed to registered vet. Broken pelvis / vet says bladder etc may be damaged. Could squeeze out pee, bloody.
Wants that to work before consider op on pelvis
So £500 in with that vet
They do not have overnight so I had to take her to different place for overnight monitoring. @ £600
Pick up in morning, back to vet 1
Further nights may be reqd. Pelvis op a few more K no doubt
Normal?
Just after a sanity check
The cat was unfortunately run over. Missing 24 hours, not that unusual. Went searching, heard/found her in a run down garden a few hundred yards away. Cold & wet
Dashed to registered vet. Broken pelvis / vet says bladder etc may be damaged. Could squeeze out pee, bloody.
Wants that to work before consider op on pelvis
So £500 in with that vet
They do not have overnight so I had to take her to different place for overnight monitoring. @ £600
Pick up in morning, back to vet 1
Further nights may be reqd. Pelvis op a few more K no doubt
Normal?
If the pelvis was broken, your cat would be dead by now due to internal bleeding. It's one of the first things they would have done an emergency op on. The nightly fee seems quite high but we're a nation of animal lovers so pretty much suck up the price. Is your cat insured? Vets usually have a tendency to milk out as much time as possible when the humane thing to have done was to put them down in the first place. But OOH costs are massive as well.
Imagine how many new ones you could get for a couple of grand...
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Those costs sound about right
The vet should sort out getting your cat to a referral centre. The centre will give you an indication of cost and liaise with your insurer.
Speak to your insurer and to yourvet and referal centre. They can often work to cut the cost if you are maxxing out your pet cover.
The vet should sort out getting your cat to a referral centre. The centre will give you an indication of cost and liaise with your insurer.
Speak to your insurer and to yourvet and referal centre. They can often work to cut the cost if you are maxxing out your pet cover.
Super Sonic said:
You're poor cat must be in agony. I know it's hard and my heart is breaking to say this but I would have them put out of their misery.
Thankyou for the sympathyWell dosed up, seemed remarkably happy in the car!
But not in a great place at the moment, will see what tomorrow brings
Castrol for a knave said:
Those costs sound about right
The vet should sort out getting your cat to a referral centre. The centre will give you an indication of cost and liaise with your insurer.
Speak to your insurer and to yourvet and referal centre. They can often work to cut the cost if you are maxxing out your pet cover.
ThankyouThe vet should sort out getting your cat to a referral centre. The centre will give you an indication of cost and liaise with your insurer.
Speak to your insurer and to yourvet and referal centre. They can often work to cut the cost if you are maxxing out your pet cover.
I’ll run this past vet 1 in the morning
Ferrying back & forth is not fair on the moggy & not sustainable
The costs are comparable with my vet where I had a similar situation, although a femur broken into 3 pieces. My vet do have overnight facility, and it was just shy of £1K.
The specialist added another £5K for their work, and he's going back tomorrow for an x-ray after his 8 weeks in a crate to see if it's okay.
If it is, then it'll be another 8 weeks in a room with no furniture before he'll be allowed out again. Just to give you some idea of timescales.
In that time, I've been sleeping on a mattresses in the room with the crate. He's currently snoring...
Hope it is a good outcome for you and your cat.
The specialist added another £5K for their work, and he's going back tomorrow for an x-ray after his 8 weeks in a crate to see if it's okay.
If it is, then it'll be another 8 weeks in a room with no furniture before he'll be allowed out again. Just to give you some idea of timescales.
In that time, I've been sleeping on a mattresses in the room with the crate. He's currently snoring...
Hope it is a good outcome for you and your cat.
Will see how he goes today
Back at vet 1
They could operate later this week all going well. In house. Out same night.
The main problem now is that tail damaged/will need to be removed. Possibly poo incontinent due to nerve damage but that won’t be certain for some time.
Likely outcome an incontinent tailless cat
Is it fair on the cat, who knows.
Back at vet 1
They could operate later this week all going well. In house. Out same night.
The main problem now is that tail damaged/will need to be removed. Possibly poo incontinent due to nerve damage but that won’t be certain for some time.
Likely outcome an incontinent tailless cat
Is it fair on the cat, who knows.
James6112 said:
Will see how he goes today
Back at vet 1
They could operate later this week all going well. In house. Out same night.
The main problem now is that tail damaged/will need to be removed. Possibly poo incontinent due to nerve damage but that won’t be certain for some time.
Likely outcome an incontinent tailless cat
Is it fair on the cat, who knows.
Tail pull injury - it affects the nerve endings around the bladder and bowel. It can be an either or. Hopefully, treatable. Back at vet 1
They could operate later this week all going well. In house. Out same night.
The main problem now is that tail damaged/will need to be removed. Possibly poo incontinent due to nerve damage but that won’t be certain for some time.
Likely outcome an incontinent tailless cat
Is it fair on the cat, who knows.
Ours had the same, plus ruptured diaphragm, broken leg and damaged paws. She's under the bird table
James6112 said:
Hi
Just after a sanity check
The cat was unfortunately run over. Missing 24 hours, not that unusual. Went searching, heard/found her in a run down garden a few hundred yards away. Cold & wet
Dashed to registered vet. Broken pelvis / vet says bladder etc may be damaged. Could squeeze out pee, bloody.
Wants that to work before consider op on pelvis
So £500 in with that vet
They do not have overnight so I had to take her to different place for overnight monitoring. @ £600
Pick up in morning, back to vet 1
Further nights may be reqd. Pelvis op a few more K no doubt
Normal?
When I lived in the US my cat was run over, and had a fractured pelvis.Just after a sanity check
The cat was unfortunately run over. Missing 24 hours, not that unusual. Went searching, heard/found her in a run down garden a few hundred yards away. Cold & wet
Dashed to registered vet. Broken pelvis / vet says bladder etc may be damaged. Could squeeze out pee, bloody.
Wants that to work before consider op on pelvis
So £500 in with that vet
They do not have overnight so I had to take her to different place for overnight monitoring. @ £600
Pick up in morning, back to vet 1
Further nights may be reqd. Pelvis op a few more K no doubt
Normal?
Total treatment was $1500 over a decade ago. The galling thing was the vet said as I was paying that "cats are extremely resilient, and would have healed itself".
I gave him a Paddington Bear long hard stare.
£500 seems right.
James6112 said:
Will see how he goes today
Back at vet 1
They could operate later this week all going well. In house. Out same night.
The main problem now is that tail damaged/will need to be removed. Possibly poo incontinent due to nerve damage but that won’t be certain for some time.
Likely outcome an incontinent tailless cat
Is it fair on the cat, who knows.
Tailless, not a big deal. Incontinent, more of a deal. But you don't know that for sure, he may not be. Back at vet 1
They could operate later this week all going well. In house. Out same night.
The main problem now is that tail damaged/will need to be removed. Possibly poo incontinent due to nerve damage but that won’t be certain for some time.
Likely outcome an incontinent tailless cat
Is it fair on the cat, who knows.
Simpo Two said:
James6112 said:
Will see how he goes today
Back at vet 1
They could operate later this week all going well. In house. Out same night.
The main problem now is that tail damaged/will need to be removed. Possibly poo incontinent due to nerve damage but that won’t be certain for some time.
Likely outcome an incontinent tailless cat
Is it fair on the cat, who knows.
Tailless, not a big deal. Incontinent, more of a deal. But you don't know that for sure, he may not be. Back at vet 1
They could operate later this week all going well. In house. Out same night.
The main problem now is that tail damaged/will need to be removed. Possibly poo incontinent due to nerve damage but that won’t be certain for some time.
Likely outcome an incontinent tailless cat
Is it fair on the cat, who knows.
He’s at home tonight, in a medium cage, purring away.
Having the op tomorrow to fix the pelvis. Then home tomorrow evening.
The vets are very good. My initial rant was a bit uncalled for.
Fingers crossed !
The cat owes my wife one. He had been out 24 hours, which was rare. We walked around the area when it was quiet. Her rattling treats. Thought she heard meow. The cat was down what looked like a silted up disused well in a very run down houses front garden. I got down it to get cat out, wrapped in my jacket & straight to vets. He would have died there. Guess dashed there after being hit.
Edited by James6112 on Wednesday 16th November 19:50
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