Our lovely Chinese boy Rufus was a bit off yesterday - he was in pain somewhere but we couldn't tell where :? I was nursing him in the evening and he did a great big pee all over the floor :shock: About half an hour later he seemed fine again :?
This morning he was in obvious discomfort again so I got his painkiller ready and when I was holding him a huge fountain of pee came out :shock: OK, we know that something is wrong with his wee now 'cos he started to eat again about quarter of an hour later. We thought maybe cystitis :?
Off to the vets and John has just got back - Rufus needs his bladder manually expressed now he is unable to empty it himself - vet thinks it is more neurological than mechanical so Rufus will probably need this doing all the time now - poor boy
What is worrying us and the vets is if whatever is wrong with his legs and has more or less paralysed them could be slowly travelling upwards
The only real way to find out if nerve damage is involved is to do a mylogram on him and I wouldn't put him through that - that would be totally unfair on him and besides which, nothing could be done for it anyway
So, we will have to express Rufus's bladder four times a day - and the vet said he's got one hell of a bladder :shock: It will go with his one hell of a set of plums then :shock: :lol: :lol:
This morning he was in obvious discomfort again so I got his painkiller ready and when I was holding him a huge fountain of pee came out :shock: OK, we know that something is wrong with his wee now 'cos he started to eat again about quarter of an hour later. We thought maybe cystitis :?
Off to the vets and John has just got back - Rufus needs his bladder manually expressed now he is unable to empty it himself - vet thinks it is more neurological than mechanical so Rufus will probably need this doing all the time now - poor boy
What is worrying us and the vets is if whatever is wrong with his legs and has more or less paralysed them could be slowly travelling upwards
The only real way to find out if nerve damage is involved is to do a mylogram on him and I wouldn't put him through that - that would be totally unfair on him and besides which, nothing could be done for it anyway
So, we will have to express Rufus's bladder four times a day - and the vet said he's got one hell of a bladder :shock: It will go with his one hell of a set of plums then :shock: :lol: :lol: