CladInShadows said:
I'm a huge animal lover. Especially cats. So I feel your paid.
About 2 years ago we had to get our 15 year old Siamese cat put down. She had been vomiting and losing a ton of weight for 2-3 years. Multiple visits to the vet indicated it was hyperthyroidism. So on medication she went. She gained a little of the weight back. But the vomiting kept up at varying rates. We just thought that she was so hungry (from all the weight loss) that she was gorging and then vomiting. But then about 2 years ago, the vet was finally able to feel a tumour in her stomach, which was obviously the cause of the vomiting. This would have been in December of 2014. So we took her home, and let her live through Christmas. We gave her a shit ton of food and basically just let her live like a queen for a while, while knowing that if the situation deteriorated in any way, we'd have to do the deed.
We had her put down in January 9, 2015. I cried so hard. I still tear up a little when I think about it.
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Sorry for the loss of your cat, I know that feeling when you bring them to the vet for something like that, it really is the hardest thing in the world that you can't explain it to the cat what is going on, they just look at you confused when stuff is happening to them, one of my 2 was very sick last year with a urinary tract problem, couldn't pee was close to dying, laying on the ground and just bladder close to bursting, they had to syringe out the pee from him, then put him under and "clear his pipes" was in the Vets for well over a week with it, each time we visited him he just looked sadder and sadder like he was abandoned in there, on the last day we came to collect him to bring him home he was sat inside his litter tray in his cage just so sad looking not cleaning himself.
Now over a year and a bit later he is still going strong, back to his super happy self, I just wish there was some way to let cats know that you aren't leaving them alone or abandoning them, they don't understand things like when you bring them to a vets you're actually spending hundreds on their health to make them better, it's very sad. During that time myself and my wife discussed the worst case outcome and we were both in tears at the thought of "if it was for the best, then it would have to be done" but he pulled through at the time, the only thing I can ever say is that if you have a pet cat, especially a rescue one, then they would have had a very short and bad life if they were left on the streets, starving, being shoo'd away or getting hit by cars or dogs. But we take them into our lives and give them the King/Queen treatment for as long as we can before they leave us, all you can do is enjoy the time you have with them and know that they're loving getting to have a nice relaxing life as a pet rather than the life as a stray.
Here is my fucker now, look at him... not knowing how much of a lucky bastard he is.
Wow that got off topic....
As for the seizures in the OP, have you anything like fake sugars that the cat might have eaten? aspartime or saccarine, we had a slight issue with one of our cats having little fits years back but it happened because she was eating some dental floss and having a reaction to the fake sugars which were on the floss, maybe have a check around and make sure that there is nothing like chewing gum or mints around that the cat might be getting into and eating. Those have mint which is in the same family as catnip so some cats will eat it but they also always have fake sugar which cats are morbidly alergic to.
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