kidney failure

[christine847]

my friend has asked me to put this question to you. 10 days ago her 18 year old persian was diagnosed with kidney failure,the vet gave her steroids and an antibiotic injection and said that was all he could do. Since then she has been feeding her by hand..tonight she has started wobbling all over the place,she has just phoned me for advice what do i tell her? advice please

[tiggerblue10]

Christine sweetheart, I'm afraid there is nothing that can be done now. This is going to sound very harsh but I went through it with my 15 year old cat 7 years ago. He was wobbling all over the place and his eyes were flickering. I took him to the vets and I was told he had kidney failure and would have to be put down the next day. I was devastated but it had to be done.

Your friend needs to take the cat to the vet before it starts to suffer even more. Sorry xxx

[Lucy Thomas]

Tell her to shoot it.

[babybow]

Lucy Thomas that is uncalled for

[Lucy Thomas]

Babybow, that is uncalled for.

[christine847]

Hi Tigger, Thanks for your quick reply,I will pass your message on to her
love Chrissyxx

[Munkeeluvva]

Maybe Lucy Thomas lives in a country where the humane solution would be simply to shoot it.

Everybody is so judgemental in this place.





GFY

[christine847]

Thanks in a pickle for your kind words i will pass the message on.

[Lucy Thomas]

Thank you for your understanding Munkeeluvva.

You are correct. I do indeed ive in a country where the easiest option is to sort everything out with a gun.

Britain.

[babybow]

ive in the country slight spelling mistake Lucy
Local Vets for you my dear to put you out of your sad existence

[Lucy Thomas]

Why sad. It's not me going all gaga because pussy's on his way out.

[Munkeeluvva]

babybow, check your punctuation dear.

Glass houses, stone, case closed.






GFY

[pastafreak]

Lucy-why don't you post your nastiness elswhere.....if you are even moderately intelligent. you know that your response is insensitve at the very least.Maybe you are not a pet lover...but at least try to put yourself in other's shoes.

[Lucy Thomas]

No Babybow, a typo which I ignore in other posts. What I highlight are grammatical errors and obvious misspellings.

Although I suppose you wouldn't be intelligent enough to spot those.

[Lucy Thomas]

Pastafreak. I could, but where would the fun be in that

[babybow]

Maybe Lucy should have a thread for herself
"I love Lucy" bullet proof of course

[Lucy Thomas]

Now there's an idea!

[gelda]

Lucy Thomas, This is a site where pet lovers come to get sensible advice about their pet problems so what on earth are you doing on here?

[josaphine32]

Back to the question..... I lost my old cat 3 weeks ago to kidney faliure, he deteriated over a month he went from eating loads as he normally did to then drinking gallons, i took him to the vet they did the same with my cat has they did with your friends, he decided after about three days he had had enough and did not want to eat, there comes a time..... when you know that they have had a great life lived for 18 years and thats over a hundred in people years that its there time, mine would not want to have suffered so i did the kindest thing and put him to sleep, its very very hard but i think i did the right thing by him,
good luck

[christine847]

thanks Josaphine