Yoshi Cat, what to do?

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jzgrlduff

Discussion Starter · Feb 12, 2009

Ugh. I think the time has come for our beloved Yoshi Cat. He's almost 16, and the last couple of weeks he's gotten skinnier and skinnier. He drinks constantly. Meows constantly (Yoshi has never meowed, he would open his mouth and a little peep would come out). He's got this thing on his lower lip, it started out as a bump which the vet looked at last year and didn't think much of it. Now his whole bottom lip if puffy and looks like it's oozing something. I wonder if it's cancer. Not to mention all 3 dogs attack him viciously when they're together. They've never done that before....I wonder if they know something is wrong with him....

I'm going to take him to the vet, but I'm afraid that I'll end up having him put down on the spot. I can't afford treatment if it's cancer, and after all he's 16.

What would you do? :'(
He used to be Dog's Best Friend :

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Labmom2Sun

· #2 · Feb 12, 2009

I think I'd probably do the same thing, Amy. Not sure I'd put a 16 year old kitty through treatment if it's cancer.

I'm so sorry. I hope it's not Yoshi cat's time yet.

boonesmom

· #3 · Feb 12, 2009

Oh I am so sorry...

Hope it isn't Yoshi's time. Will keep you in my thoughts.

Paddysmom

· #4 · Feb 12, 2009

It sounds like he's suffering and the dogs know he's suffering.
If it's time, Amy, I'll be right by your side. Yoshi is, after all, Lewis' twin.

Chester B. Dickens

· #5 · Feb 12, 2009

Poor Yosh. Poor you. I don't envy the position you both are in.

Good thoughts all 'round...........

Clanceycanuck

· #6 · Feb 12, 2009

Good thoughts Amy - hope it isn't Yoshi's time.

theoconbrio

· #7 · Feb 12, 2009

Oh, I'm sorry, Amy. It does sound like he's suffering.

MidwestGirl

· #8 · Feb 12, 2009

I love Yoshi. Good thoughts for Yoshi and you.

imported_kelli

· #9 · Feb 12, 2009

poor kitty =(

Thunders Mom

· #10 · Feb 12, 2009

He lived a good life if it is his time. You will do the right thing.

G

· #11 · Feb 12, 2009

(((AMY))) I hope and pray it's not cancer.

Bob Pr.

· #12 · Feb 12, 2009

Hope you get good news -- but, if not, you'll make the right decision for Yoshi.

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jzgrlduff

Discussion Starter · #13 · Feb 12, 2009

It sounds like he's suffering and the dogs know he's suffering.

That's exactly what I was thinking. I mean, they are really brutal to him, like attack dogs. They stop at nothing until Yoshi is able to escape somehow. I'm afraid they're going to kill him.

MidwestGirl

· #14 · Feb 12, 2009

Please let us know what the vet says.

imported_bacatherine

· #15 · Feb 12, 2009

Sorry Amy I would see what the vet says if he's suffering it may be time to let him go. (((hugs)))

Trickster

· #16 · Feb 12, 2009

Is the stuff on his lip brown in colour?

Sadly I had to have my favourite cat (15 years old) put to sleep a week before Christmas. A couple of weeks before he started to get (intermitantly) brown saliva around his mouth. Took him to vets, vet thought it was respiratory infection. Put him on antibiotics. A week later, he began drooling brown liquid that looked like it was blood tinged. Back to a vets, where I knew as soon as I made the phonecall what the outcome would be, a large mass was found in his mouth - turned out to be an oral carcinoma. We decided to PTS there as putting an already frail cat through cancer treatment would have been cruel.

This was all VERY sudden for a cat that had never been to the vets apart from when having a checkup. I was heartbroken, but took a lot of comfort from the fact that he had a wonderful, pain free life up until the very end.

You will know when the time is right, Amy.

jzgrlduff

Discussion Starter · #17 · Feb 12, 2009

Is the stuff on his lip brown in colour?

I think? I need to take a closer look when I get home. He's definitely drooling.

mollyrock

· #18 · Feb 12, 2009

I am sorry about Yoshi.

I think the dogs are sensing that Yoshi isn't well.

MicksMom

· #19 · Feb 12, 2009

jzgrlduff said:
...I'm going to take him to the vet, but I'm afraid that I'll end up having him put down on the spot. I can't afford treatment if it's cancer, and after all he's 16.

What would you do? :'( ...

Amy, if it is cancer, I'd do exactly as you. I thought we were going to be putting Topper to sleep in December- despite the door to the btoom of the stair being open, she started peeing on the bath mat that we put our boots on under the china closet (her food dish is under the china cabinet). When my vet called me with the bolld test results, his first words were, "She is the healthiest almost 19 year old cat I've evr seen. Blod work is spot on for a cat her age." Turns out she was just too dang lazy to go up the stairs to use the litterbox (yet she thought nothing of coming up there to "yowl" at me when I slept late). Problem solved by removing the bathmat and getting her a lower litterbox. What I'm trying to say with all this rambling is I thought we were losing her, but it turned out to be something easy to "fix". Hope it's the same for Yoshi (btw-I was just wondering how Yoshi was doing the other night).

Oh, she's lost weight, too (from 6 pounds in Jan 07 to 4), but it's due to muscle loss from age.

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jzgrlduff

Discussion Starter · #20 · Feb 12, 2009

I'll see if I can get a pic of his mouth tonight. Even his eyes look funny....

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