Man of Honour
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- 11 Dec 2002
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I know there are a fare number of cat owners on here so wanted to give a little warning out to you all.
Don't let lilies in your house with the cat around - they are incredibly poisonous to the cat if even a tiny bit is ingested.
This morning our cat Mackerel found a dropped lily bud from some flowers I bought the misses last week and gave it a bit of a chew (he likes to eat everything). He spat it out but I looked it up on-line and immediately called the out of hours vet.
After a mad dash to the veterinary practice at 7am they induced vomiting and gave him charcoal to stop any further absorption of the poison, he's now on a drip for 48hours to flush anything out of his system with regular blood tests to keep an eye on him.
Despite catching it after only an hour he's still at risk of acute and potentially fatal kidney failure because of this. If its not caught within a couple of hours the chance of survival is very low.
So please please cat owners, don't let any lilies in the house! Luckily we've only got to pay the £80 insurance excess, the full treatment bill is going to be at least £650!
Here's a picture of him looking very sorry for himself in transit between the out of hours and normal vets:
(the bandage is holding the line for the drip in)
Don't let lilies in your house with the cat around - they are incredibly poisonous to the cat if even a tiny bit is ingested.
This morning our cat Mackerel found a dropped lily bud from some flowers I bought the misses last week and gave it a bit of a chew (he likes to eat everything). He spat it out but I looked it up on-line and immediately called the out of hours vet.
After a mad dash to the veterinary practice at 7am they induced vomiting and gave him charcoal to stop any further absorption of the poison, he's now on a drip for 48hours to flush anything out of his system with regular blood tests to keep an eye on him.
Despite catching it after only an hour he's still at risk of acute and potentially fatal kidney failure because of this. If its not caught within a couple of hours the chance of survival is very low.
So please please cat owners, don't let any lilies in the house! Luckily we've only got to pay the £80 insurance excess, the full treatment bill is going to be at least £650!
Here's a picture of him looking very sorry for himself in transit between the out of hours and normal vets:
(the bandage is holding the line for the drip in)
but still worth calling out - we knew they were dangerous but really didn't realise the severity of even the smallest amount of ingestion.
(but hope your cat will be fine!)
