Thread: First vet visit

Originally Posted by messyhearts

The only "big" thing about hernias is if you planned to show him you couldn't do so any more. As Louise said, it can be done at the same time as neutering.

May I ask, why after a hernia, a cat cannot be shown? I am confused by your statement only because, and in the same way as neutering, a hernia is an internal issue? ty*Roy

Yeah I thought the same Roy, but maybe messyhearts meant if the hernia was left unoperated on ?

I'm not intending to show so not worried. I can still feel the hernia but it's not very big. Does anyone know though if they ever just close up on their own or do they always get bigger?

Harrymc - you said earlier that Harry was eating 4 to 5 pouches of wet food a day - I could barely get Simba to eat one so now I have taken the breeders advice and cutting it out. Do you know how much dry food Harry is eating? I weigh out the amount I put down in the morning so I know how much and he seems to be eating about 80g a day. He is such a lazy eater - I often have to entice him to eat - the other day he was lying down near his bowl looking at it and I started giving him a biscuit from the bowl - he took it so I did it again - he ended up eating loads from my hand but wouldn't eat it out of the bowl - is that being lazy?!

yeh I think that could be classed as lazy.... maybe he doesn't like the bowl?

I'm not really sure Karena as having Poppy who is definately a grazer and eats when she feels like it, little and often it would be difficult to monitor it. I just weighed out 80gm of dry just to see what that quantity looked like and would say he probably eats about 50gm per day ? I weighed him at the weekend but only on house scales which tells you to the nearest pound and he was 7llb. Like I said before he is growing by the day but in length more than anything but is still lean.

I would prefer to give him mostly dry food with the occasional treat of wet, but he cries for it as soon as I walk into the kitchen and knows the cupboard where it is kept. I think the feeding from the bowl is more of an attention thing. He's putting on weight at a steady pace so I wouldn't worry about it too much. As you said before you can never tell how they turn out. When Poppy had her kittens a couple of years ago we kept Benson as he was the largest of the four kittens, when they were all fully grown he was half the size of the others.

Hi - I was an RN in a previous life ( many years ago) and as far as I remember they do not fix themselves. There is a tear and something is poking thu - hence the lump and so they do not close again. Hope my memory is intact!!!! I would recommend you keep an eye on it and if it gets bigger go to vet.