Monday, May 17, 2010

Deadly Plants and Curious Cats

It makes me so angry that neither of my vets asked me, "Hey, so you're a new pet owner? Okay, cool - and you just adopted? Sweet, and ever since then, he's been vomiting, which he didn't used to do before? Okay, well, do you have any of these house plants?"


Why don't they ask? These plants are insanely common and a lot of people probably have them either in their home or outside in their yard. I didn't know this, and I had cats growing up my whole life. This isn't as common knowledge as it should be, especially when you ask your mother for advice with your cat and all she says is "You shouldn't have adopted someone else's problem" referring to how old my cat is, blaming his sickness on his age. She has even been to my house and seen the stupid house plant I have - the only one I decided to buy.

Frankly, I'm a little enraged by this. I mean, I try to do right by my pet. In the last 6 months or so, he's gone to two vets, had all the blood work done for cancer, changed diets due to recommendations I don't know how many times, about 500 dollars spent on him with just medical bills alone... and no one asked, "Oh, he chews on grass outside? Do you have any plants indoors? Or any of the following anywhere?"

Ugh. I am so glad that FixNation posted this on their twitter. All this time, it could have just been the plant. Maybe it's a mixture of diet and plant eating, but I hope that once I through the sucker out, my cat will be better, once and for all.



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