R.I.P Hugh - Antifreeze Poisoning
Hello again readers,
This is a sad post about a tragic event we've wanted to talk about for a while but could never quite find the words. Shockingly, we lost our beloved cat Hugh to antifreeze poisoning.
Hugh was a gentle cat who didn't have a bad bone in his body. He never ventured much further than the drive, so we are confident that it was a very local incident. Even more disturbingly, there is numerous outdoor cats on our quiet estate - it could've easily happened to any of them too.
We saw Hugh before we went to bed and he was acting a little usual, but he was always an odd cat anyway - if only we had known what had happened to him.
In the morning, I woke up to Hugh in an almost paralyzed state and convulsing on my bedroom floor. His muscles were twitching, his jaw was clenched shut, he was freezing and also extremely dehydrated. I wrapped him in my blanket and ran to get my syringes. I forced some fluids down - but it wasn't helping. Hugh was dying painfully and slowly.
We banged on the vets door before their opening time - thankfully someone was in. We told them our cat had been poisoned and they rushed us straight through. Blood tests confirmed that Hugh had in fact been poisoned with antifreeze. He was put straight onto a drip which administered an antidote (the antidote to antifreeze is Vodka).
After a few hours, Hugh was only getting worse. He was drifting in and out of consciousness, his kidneys and other organs were failing. The vets advised us to have Hugh put to sleep, it was very unlikely they could reverse the damage. Hugh was already suffering a horrendous death, we decided the kindest thing was to let him go.
We are going to link you to our vets post about our beloved Hugh to help raise awareness.
Hugh crossed the rainbow bridge on 23/02/18.
This is a sad post about a tragic event we've wanted to talk about for a while but could never quite find the words. Shockingly, we lost our beloved cat Hugh to antifreeze poisoning.
Hugh was a gentle cat who didn't have a bad bone in his body. He never ventured much further than the drive, so we are confident that it was a very local incident. Even more disturbingly, there is numerous outdoor cats on our quiet estate - it could've easily happened to any of them too.
We saw Hugh before we went to bed and he was acting a little usual, but he was always an odd cat anyway - if only we had known what had happened to him.
In the morning, I woke up to Hugh in an almost paralyzed state and convulsing on my bedroom floor. His muscles were twitching, his jaw was clenched shut, he was freezing and also extremely dehydrated. I wrapped him in my blanket and ran to get my syringes. I forced some fluids down - but it wasn't helping. Hugh was dying painfully and slowly.
We banged on the vets door before their opening time - thankfully someone was in. We told them our cat had been poisoned and they rushed us straight through. Blood tests confirmed that Hugh had in fact been poisoned with antifreeze. He was put straight onto a drip which administered an antidote (the antidote to antifreeze is Vodka).
After a few hours, Hugh was only getting worse. He was drifting in and out of consciousness, his kidneys and other organs were failing. The vets advised us to have Hugh put to sleep, it was very unlikely they could reverse the damage. Hugh was already suffering a horrendous death, we decided the kindest thing was to let him go.
We are going to link you to our vets post about our beloved Hugh to help raise awareness.
Hugh crossed the rainbow bridge on 23/02/18.
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