Pets just have to pick the right humans!
One of my cats developed hepatic lipidosis--the cat stops eating for no
good reason, it develops a fatty infiltrate of the liver, and then it
becomes nauseated and REALLY doesn't eat. Have you ever seen a jaundiced
cat? With hepatic lipidosis the cat will die if you can't get some
nutrition into it, probably live if you can, so the cat got a PEG tube
and we tube-fed her for weeks. She's now fine...except that recently she
became hyperthyroid. Twice a day we have to corner her and stuff half a
tapazole down her little throat. She just doesn't understand that her
medication helps her to be a feeling-better kitty.
Some friends of ours had a cat which had an unfortunate encounter with a
weed-whacker and lost all the skin off one foreleg. (Their neighbors
were not great fans of the cat, so this may not have been an accident.)
What's the natural source of a skin graft for a cat? The abdomen, where
there's plenty of loose skin. It worked fine and the cat lived many
years afterward--but with tummy fur on one foreleg!
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