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A friend of mine had a cat which had kittens. It was a few weeks when he realised, after watching one try to take a dump and fail, it didn't have an opening for it's anus. He said it was bloated and abdomen was hard. The vet said they had only heard of this and never witnessed it themselves. Thing had to be put down.
It's often fixable if caught soon enough. Basically the affected creature gets ripped a new asshole under anasthesia.
Yes the vet said it's probably treatable but she couldn't do it. She'd have to refer him to some other vet and it would have been insanely expensive.
jesusfuck, man.
That's one of those anecdotes that you don't ever have to share again. Let it die.
Seconded. My little brother gets NeedsToGoToTheHospital-Grade stopped up from time to time and, uh, it's painful enough they give you the good shit. That is a horrible way to die.
A few weeks? I need a hug dude. It must've been vomiting it's stool.
99% of the time, a swollen hard belly on a kitten means it's infested with worms though.
It is treatable, and financially? I don't know this is worse or better than what I said.
There's deworming product you can buy, it's not expensive and it's pretty standard. It's something you feed them with a feeding syringe. The worst part about it is cleaning up the mess in the litterbox cause the whole process gives em the runs pretty bad. But it's over within a week or so.
Can happen to humans, too, but it's frowned upon to put those ones down.
Is this one of those exploding kittens?
Not yet.
It looks like the cat is being shamed for getting into the soup again.
or worms
I work with a lot of feral kittens. When I see a firm belly we start treating for worms immediately.
Worms are bad, but I'm glad people are talking about that rather than FIP
My area is blissfully free of FIP. FIV on the other hand.
This is Frasier. He and his brother were seven weeks old when they came in Niles was happily adopted about a week ago from a cat cafe. Frazier however tested positive for FIV. Two kids from the same mom that should have had pretty much identical life circumstances up to that point. We waited a month and tested them both again just to make sure there wasn't a false positive from was still carrying some antibodies from Mom.. still FIV. So it's taken us a bit of time to find a rescue adoption that will take an FIV+ kid. He is scheduled to leave in the middle of next month.
I'm thankful there's finally a treatment for that