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January 2015 Moms
longcat07
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my $1500 flower (NBR)
longcat07
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i'm so stupid.
about a year and a half ago, SO brought me home a bouquet for my birthday that had lilies in it. i posted a picture to FB, and my sister informed me that lilies are highly toxic to cats, causing kidney failure and death if they eat them and don't get treatment within a few hours. i didn't know this, so of course i was grateful for the information. i kept flowers out of reach anyway because i have one cat who considers himself omnivorous, but i kept a close eye on the bouquet for loose petals and pulled them off before they fell, etc. well, i missed one, and said omnivorous cat ate it. i never would have known except that he barfed it up again, and i found the barf with a bright orange petal in it. two days and $800 later, i had him back home and healthy again (although to be fair, he did great the whole time, probably because he'd eaten it just after he'd been fed and threw up right away). lesson learned. no more lilies in the house.
except i guess i didn't learn. we just bought this house last year, and there is ZERO landscaping. i planted day lilies in front back in may, and some have been blooming for the first time ever since about a week ago. big, peachy pink flowers that are bright yellow in the throat. this morning there was some kid in my yard, and 10min later i noticed one of the flowers, freshly opened, laying on the ground. GRR. so, on impulse, i brought it in and put it water, because for some dumb reason i couldn't bear to see my pretty flower laying on the ground out there because an asshole kid doesn't have any respect for other people's yards or things. i figured, it's only for a day, i'll put it somewhere that schrödinger can't get it. and most of the day, it was fine where it was. it made me smile every time i passed it. i went to the post office to mail some birthday packages for my parents this afternoon and DS wanted to play with the neighbor girl when we got home, so i was out of the house for probably 1.5-2 hours, and when we got back in, the first thing i noticed was the damn flower had been chewed on and partially eaten.
we just got back from the emergency vet. DS is crying that he misses schro, and i just put a $1500 deposit down with my credit card. this time, schro hadn't eaten since 5am, so the petals were on an empty stomach, and at the time we left he was looking rather ill because they'd given him something to hopefully get him to throw up. i'm hoping he'll be stable and healthy enough to move to my regular vet in the morning so that some of the deposit can be refunded and it won't cost quite so much in the long run, but that's not what i'm worried about the most. i called it my $1500 flower in the title, but mostly i'm just hoping that my own stupidity and impulsiveness doesn't kill or permanently damage my cat. he's dumb for being a salad-nommer and getting places i had no idea he could get to, sure, but this is my fault. he's an animal, and i'm and idiot.
about a year and a half ago, SO brought me home a bouquet for my birthday that had lilies in it. i posted a picture to FB, and my sister informed me that lilies are highly toxic to cats, causing kidney failure and death if they eat them and don't get treatment within a few hours. i didn't know this, so of course i was grateful for the information. i kept flowers out of reach anyway because i have one cat who considers himself omnivorous, but i kept a close eye on the bouquet for loose petals and pulled them off before they fell, etc. well, i missed one, and said omnivorous cat ate it. i never would have known except that he barfed it up again, and i found the barf with a bright orange petal in it. two days and $800 later, i had him back home and healthy again (although to be fair, he did great the whole time, probably because he'd eaten it just after he'd been fed and threw up right away). lesson learned. no more lilies in the house.
except i guess i didn't learn. we just bought this house last year, and there is ZERO landscaping. i planted day lilies in front back in may, and some have been blooming for the first time ever since about a week ago. big, peachy pink flowers that are bright yellow in the throat. this morning there was some kid in my yard, and 10min later i noticed one of the flowers, freshly opened, laying on the ground. GRR. so, on impulse, i brought it in and put it water, because for some dumb reason i couldn't bear to see my pretty flower laying on the ground out there because an asshole kid doesn't have any respect for other people's yards or things. i figured, it's only for a day, i'll put it somewhere that schrödinger can't get it. and most of the day, it was fine where it was. it made me smile every time i passed it. i went to the post office to mail some birthday packages for my parents this afternoon and DS wanted to play with the neighbor girl when we got home, so i was out of the house for probably 1.5-2 hours, and when we got back in, the first thing i noticed was the damn flower had been chewed on and partially eaten.
we just got back from the emergency vet. DS is crying that he misses schro, and i just put a $1500 deposit down with my credit card. this time, schro hadn't eaten since 5am, so the petals were on an empty stomach, and at the time we left he was looking rather ill because they'd given him something to hopefully get him to throw up. i'm hoping he'll be stable and healthy enough to move to my regular vet in the morning so that some of the deposit can be refunded and it won't cost quite so much in the long run, but that's not what i'm worried about the most. i called it my $1500 flower in the title, but mostly i'm just hoping that my own stupidity and impulsiveness doesn't kill or permanently damage my cat. he's dumb for being a salad-nommer and getting places i had no idea he could get to, sure, but this is my fault. he's an animal, and i'm and idiot.
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Re: my $1500 flower (NBR)
Dog from eating shit!" I feel your pain! T's and p's for your kitty.
it's just...UGH. i KNEW better and i did it anyway, thinking everything would be fine. i will never ever forgive myself if he doesn't pull through ok. he's my first cat and a total mama's boy. i usually call him "my familiar".
it wasn't worth the risk to bring that stupid flower in the house, and i knew that.
edit: spelling and typos
BFP#1 EDD 04.20.2010, SUNSHINE baby boy born 03.31.2010
BFP#2 EDD 12.07.2014, natural mc 04.09.2014 at 5w3d
BFP#3 EDD 01.14.15, RAINBOW baby girl born 01.16.2015
jan'15 january siggy challenge: baby fails
Our first cat was very strange. After we moved into our first apartment we had to take him to the vet because he was lethargic and wouldn't eat. Turns out he was eating the freshly washed carpet fuzz and got extremely backed up. That visit cost us $650. A few months later he attempted to catch a bird on the windowsill (from inside) and broke his front paw. That cost another grand. He passed away a few years ago. We found out 2 months ago that our oldest cat has a rare disease that causes her paws to balloon up and possibly burst. I'm still paying off her treatments..
T's and P's for you and your kitty!
A similar thing happened with one of my dogs. I knew that raisins can cause kidney failure, but when I brought home a container of cinnamon rolls I didn't even think about the raisins. My dog got into the container and ate all but one - luckily he hid one and dug it out of the sofa or else we might not have realized what happened before it was too late. I was so scared because he only has one kidney to begin with. The treatment and bill was similar to yours.
Shit happens even when you're a careful, loving pet parent. Please don't beat yourself up too much about this. Keeping you guys in my thoughts!
My rat got sick once and stopped eating... She had to get put on rat IV! The vet bill was 250!
no more lilies in the house. EVAR. under any circumstances. no matter how sad the stupid flower looks on the ground. i just want my orange furball back.
also, @Mamasaurus15 and @CuppyCakes721, i can't take full credit for the idea of his name...i may or may not have pilfered the idea from brief reference in a sci-fi series i used to watch. BUT i don't feel bad about it, because i'm a nerd and was familiar with erwin schrödinger and his cat principle long before ever getting a cat. i just wasn't clever enough to thinking of it completely on my own. lol
BFP#1 EDD 04.20.2010, SUNSHINE baby boy born 03.31.2010
BFP#2 EDD 12.07.2014, natural mc 04.09.2014 at 5w3d
BFP#3 EDD 01.14.15, RAINBOW baby girl born 01.16.2015
jan'15 january siggy challenge: baby fails
BFP #2: EDD 9/3/13~~Slow HB at 1st U/S~~MMC -Loss on 2/13/13
K- born 7/5/2011
G- born 6/24/2013
BFP#1 EDD 04.20.2010, SUNSHINE baby boy born 03.31.2010
BFP#2 EDD 12.07.2014, natural mc 04.09.2014 at 5w3d
BFP#3 EDD 01.14.15, RAINBOW baby girl born 01.16.2015
jan'15 january siggy challenge: baby fails
Lilies are my favorite - I'll have to keep that in mind with kids and potential future pets.