Boomer the Crazy Cat
Due to a very sudden blood clotting condition Thrombosis Boomer has passed away, October 25th, 2000.
For those of you that are new visitors, please do continue on down the page. There's lots of great info! Boomer has brought so many smiles to so many people/kitties. Because of this we will leave his site the way it is. We've received so many positive emails about the importance of Boomers FUS/FLUTD story. I'd still like many others to benefit from this also.
We've been told, we've even helped save kitty lives!! So please sit back and learn from a remarkable cat, that will never be forgotten. Love you always Boomy boy!
Memorial Page for
Boomer located
here.
Hey there, I'm a funloving DSH cat.
Born on September 14th 1993.
That makes me 7 years old. I was adopted
from a Humane Society in Ontario Canada
when I was about 8 weeks old. Here I am as a kitten, doing the
"cute thing". I love my home and
my sister, she’s a Shih Tzu, (dog)Jazmyn.
We play a lot together. I'm even bigger
then she is.
My
parents are wonderful, they've put up ledges by windows in our
house so I can bird watch. One is right by a
bird feeder so I get lots of action there.
Or is that lots of sleep there!!!
You name it, I’ll sleep
on it, or in it!
I
enjoy climbing the wall, literally, my mom says
I’m crazy, but its fun I just hang on and jump straight up.
Mom says I’m crazy when I go in the fridge.
Yes, she
has closed the door on
me. She thinks it will stop me from going in, but I still do,
after all I'm crazy.
*THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT KITTIES*
Do you know how common FUS is, or even WHAT it is? Also known as FLUTD Feline Lower Urinary Tract Disease (I will refer to it as FUS, since that's shorter).
MY STORY IT COULD SAVE A LIFE!
At the end of November 1997 I had a
bit of a battle. It was a Monday and I couldn’t jump
up on the couch or bed without it really hurting,
so my Mom would lift me up. She thought I jumped off the counter
wrong and twisted my leg a bit. (Mom knows now to NEVER
assume anything with animals!)
On Wednesday morning I had to pee real bad and I went on the kitchen floor right in front of Mom & Dad. I had never done this before so my Dad called the vet right away, and I went to see him that morning.
They took
a urine sample
to check for crystals, the results were back in 20 min. It was
not good news. I had a lot of these crystals
which were blocking my pee and it hurt a
lot. The vet said that I had to have an anesthetic
so the crystals could be flushed out and then put a catheter
in me for a few days and hook me up to intervenus.
I knew none of this was good because Mom was crying so much.
I was in the hospital for
3 1/2 days hooked up to all these things. My Mom came to
see me every day and let me eat canned food out of her hand, I
would only eat for Mom. On Saturday I was able to go home. It
felt so good to get out of that small cage and those tubes out of
me. For the next 2 days I was on Valium.
For 10 days I had to have Amoxil,
every 12 hours, an antibiotic. Here I am with Dad,
when I got home, getting lots of love. My paw
was shaved, for the IV.
As
mentioned above, what I have is
called
FUS (Feline Urological Syndrome).
Its more common amongst
us male cats. About 30%
of us get it. Of course I'm "fixed",
but that doesn't have anything to do with it. They say foods with
high levels of magnesium are bad. I was eating
Techni-Cal dry and Whiskas salmon canned, the SEAFOOD
is BAD, now they tell me. It was my favourite too, I
never cared much for the chicken and beef’s. As with anything, a little
is fine - I was just eating seafood every day - that's bad.
So
now and always I have to eat Hill’s Prescription
Diet cd/s to keep my pH levels down.
The dry is actually quite good
and keeping me fat, (14 1/2 Pounds!)
I'm even enjoying the canned c/d finally. I have to drink lots of
fresh water every day as well, its especially
important for us FUS cats.
As you can see I'm ready to fight now, so NOTHING better mess with me!
It's really serious
if a cat gets completely
blocked. We can DIE with in 2 days.
So tell your owners the Symptoms of FUS are:
Thanks
to everyone for sharing your FUS/FLUTD
stories with me. Keep them coming.
Feel free to put this graphic on your site if you want to link back to my FUS story at http://www.fluffytails.ca/boomer.asp
*NOTE* It had been 3 years since Boomer first had FUS. His passing away was due to a blood clotting condition, thrombosis. NOT caused by FUS. However FUS can indeed be fatal. So please know the signs.
For more medical explanations of FUS/FLUTD & Thrombosis. Please refer to our links page
Interested in emailing regarding this site? You can do so here!
Many of you are linked to our old
site at geocities. If you'd be so kind as to change your links
for Boomer to http://www.fluffytails.ca/boomer.asp
Much
appreciated!
Please visit Iris & Fern! our 2 new kitties. And say hi to Jazmyn too!
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