...Not So Frisky Kitten Friday...

Lots of CurlieSwirlie followers know Pierro, of Pierro's Happy Place,
and were eagerly waiting for tomorrow to arrive, cuz that was the day his new CurlieSwirlie brudder, Miles, was supposed to move out of his birth home here at Furrydance, and begin his new adventure at Pierro's Happy Place!


Well, Miles got a tummy ache and can't leave home yet! Thursday night, our mewmie came home from her day hunting place (you know, that's the vet!) to find someone had been throwing up. She suspected it might be Miles, as he didn't want to each his stinky goodness for dinner and just went upstairs and curled up on mewmie's bed, while all his brothers romped and played.

Then she saw him vomit, 3 times. She took his temperature and it was normal. She palpated his tummy and he didn't wince or complain, but she knew something was wrong. She looked all over the house for anything he could have gotten into (lately they have been nawing holes in socks and chewing up any felt-like cat toys, so she's been trying to keep those things out of reach).


Our carpet is so good at hiding up-chuck that she had to turn off all the lights and look around with the black light, which she uses to look for oops--spray and she didn't find any wet spots anywhere, but she was worried. We don't have any real plants in the house (they are all fake, cuz of us nomming on real ones) and Teri only uses safe cleaners in the house, too.

Miles didn't feel any better Thursday morning, so she bundled him off to the vets with her and they ran some tests on him. The tests all came back fine, so they gave him something for nausea and some fluids under the skin (he hated that and cried and wiggled away!) and Teri was to give him more anti-nausea meds at bedtime and to see if he would eat some tasty food made for sick kitties.


He wasn't interested in eating still, so she fed him with a baby spoon and got about 2 tablespoons into him (and on him, so his real mewmie, Coco, licked him clean--yum, yum she said). But about 4am, Miles woke her up, vomiting all the food he had eaten earlier. She took his temp and it was still normal. No one else in the house was sick, but still she was afraid it might be something contagious...

So this morning, mewmie's day off, she took CurlieSwirlie Miles back to work for more tests and xrays of his tummy, too. He was a pretty patient patient, getting poked for blood samples, getting probed for fecal samples, getting stretched out and "body scanned" like at the airport, hahameow! The nurses at work said Miles was their best patient all day!


All the tests so far are normal-no blockage, no parasites, no bacterial overgrowth, no signs of any contagious viruses...but, this might be TMI, but there was quite a bit of cat grass in his poo, and we think that just could have started his GI distress.

So, Miles stayed at the vets, and since he didn't like fluids under his skin the day before, he had an IV catheter put in and a padded splint to keep his leg straight so the fluids could flow in easily. He has to be on the fluids for 12-24 hours with no food by mouth for 24 hours.

If the vets wasn't where our mewmie worked, she would have been sad to leave him there overnight, but she knows he's in good hands and we live about an hour away, so if she'd brought him home and he had problems with the catheter or anything, it would be a long drive in the middle of the night to get him back there.


Mewmie is relaxing a little, even though we don't know why he got sick, we know a lot of things that he doesn't have wrong now, and that's progress. And he hasn't vomited since 4am this morning and that's good, too. Hopefully, he will be feeling much better tomorrow and can come back home.

Though he will smell like the vet, so we might hiss at him at first--mewmie says it helps to rub something that smells like home all over a kitty coming back from the vets, like a stinky t-shirt or one of our favorite blankies. Then as soon as he's back to feeling 100% again, he can begin his new life with Pierro, and that looks like it's going to be lots of CurlieSwirlie fun!

And now, so you can see what a good patient our brave Miles is being, here's a photo the vet nurse took today!