My cat has blockage in his disgestive system and needs surgery but it's so risky. What should I do?In these past three days my cat has been having difficulty in passing out urine and stool. Nothing comes out. An hour ago the x-ray result came out and apparently my cat is having undigested items stuck in his digestive system. Intestines, rectum, etc :( This sounds so bad. Probably they are bones (I give him raw food). The doctor said that he will give my cat medicines for now because surgery is too risky. About 50% chance of success. My cat could have intestinal malfunction or he could even be dead. I don't understand this way of thinking because constipation could lead to death, too. So I instruct him to do surgery tonight if the problem still persists. Is my decision correct?
Posted by Whatidesired Tosay
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Posted by Ashliegh Evelyn
wow that person is an idiot... anyways if you don't get the surgery the cat will die too... can't live with a blocked intestine.... so do it...what are you feeding you cat? pick out the bones!
Posted by beachwriter
Maybe you should try the medicines first and see if they help him. If they do, then you've spared him the risky surgery and maybe even spared his life. Change his diet; raw foods aren't all that great for cats. If you don't change his food, at least remove the bones (what were you thinking?). Cat urine is very toxic and an inability to pee can easily become fatal. If the medicines and/or the surgery aren't successful, don't allow him to suffer. Although it would be heart-breaking, consider having him euthanized at that point. I hope there's a quick and easy resolution for your cat!
Posted by Paula
I am not qualified to give a veterinary opinion but it does sound as though your cat will need to have the surgery. I would consider another professional opinion. I would stop feeding the cat so many bones because I believe too many raw ones can cause bad constipation. Good luck...
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Posted by Ariane deR
I'm really sorry this is happening to your cat. I think it is a great idea to get a second opinion but not just from random strangers on Yahoo Answers who are probably not vets, and even if they were, have never seen your cat or his scans & test results etc.
When this happened to my cat there was not a problem with urinating and I'm not quite clear what you mean about that. You don't mean he also had a urethral blockage at the same time do you? If so surely they would have unblocked that immediately. Do you mean that the blockage is very high up in the small intestine & he was not even able to absorb fluid he consumed? Is he now on an IV and can he urinate now?
I don't know where you are or what resources are available to you, but if possible, I would try to quickly consult a small animal internal medicine specialist and possibly another vet experienced small animal surgeon (perhaps at a veterinary college? ) to see if they agree on the amount of risk of this surgery compared with the chance of success of medication and lubricating substances like petroleum jelly to attempt to move the undigested items through the intestines. .
They would of course need to see the X-rays. they might also suggest an abdominal Ultrasound to give them more information.
I think many cats actually do OK with this surgery, if the intestine had not been perforated already by the object, . (And if the intestine WERE perforated it would be necessary to do surgery ASAP anyway to try to save the cat. ) .
Why is the risk so high? Is that related to other health problems that makes anesthesia risky? or something about this particular surgery?
It does seem likely he may need the surgery. The question is to balance the risk of the surgery with the risk of waiting a day or so IF there would be any chance of him still passing the objects through the bowel.
If there is no chance of that, then obviously the surgery would have to be done to try to save him. .
My own cat had a similar problem last summer and we did not know exactly what was blocking him, there was a lot of unclear stuff on the scans & they thought he might have a tumor. He basically went into shock, had a seizure, body temp was subnormal. so it was very scary. I put him in an excellent 24 hour emergency & specialty vet hospital. He turned out to be having a bad flare up of pancreatitis, plus Inflammatory Bowel Disease, and the mysterious thing blocking his intestine.
In his condition (in addition to the other things he is a very complicated diabetic) we decided not to do the surgery right away but for a few days were giving meds & Lactulose and feeding via IV.. He did pass the object through his bowels -- it turned out the crazy cat had eaten a large syringe cap! after that he got much better.
It would be great if your cat also was able to get out what is blocking him that way but it may be a larger piece of bone than that. If you have any doubt about the current vet's knowledge, experience or judgement in handling this, I do hope you can maybe consult with another vet, Show them the scans & see what they think.
& if he makes it through this you need to start grinding the bones a lot finer or using some other source of calcium. & if you are feeding whole prey model diet I would switch to ground. Or you could even go to a quality canned food.
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