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A couple of years ago one of my senior girls started limping & holding a front paw up. It went on longer than I thought it should have (4 days or so), and I ended up taking her to the vet. Nothing was broken or out of place,and he couldn't find anything else wrong with her. When I brought her home & let her out of the carrier, she wasn't limping at all. I told her it would have been nice if she had decided to 'get better' before we went to the vet and dropped $50. I swear she smirked at me & proceeded to wash her face with the very paw that she had been holding up before. True story, I kid you not.
We call that "just checking to make sure you love me enough to spend significant money on me" in our house. Happens all the time.
Tiger died this morning. Congestive heart failure...turn out he had two clots in his hind legs. Holding the paw up could have been a clot in his front leg...if this happens to anyone else please get your cat looked at. I'm so beyond devastated
How shocking! I am so very sorry.
I have become much less of a wait-and-see pet owner after losing a dog who had had very vague signs of not feeling well, so vague that the vet didn't know what to look for beyond a physical exam and blood work at first. When he began felling a little worse and showing specific symptoms, his aggressive cancer had progressed too much. But that is the problem-early on with an illness, the vet may not be able to pinpoint what to look for. Most likely s/he would have found nothing special on a physical exam, put it down to a strain, as we did, and recommended more wait-and-see. I hope you aren't beating yourself up with thoughts that you could or should have done more. People tend to feel that way after the loss of a pet, but it seems you did everything right. Again, I'm sorry for your loss.
Tiger died this morning. Congestive heart failure...turn out he had two clots in his hind legs. Holding the paw up could have been a clot in his front leg...if this happens to anyone else please get your cat looked at. I'm so beyond devastated
So very sorry to hear this terrible news. I never would have thought of a blood clot problem.
So sad about Tiger, and my heart goes out to you Jen.
RIP little guy.
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True story, I kid you not.
