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clatterbane: youneedacat: buckwld5150: My cat has a snorkel.Poor Felix isn’t doing too hot. So for those of you who don’t know who Felix is, he’s our gigantic…View Post I am glad cats get feeding tubes. One of our cats had one like his, for about 4 months after surgery to piece her jaw back together when she was about 6 months old. (The best we could figure, she got hit by a car.) I found a lot of good practical advice online from people whose cats needed tubes longer term, for things like dealing with clogs and better actual feeding techniques than the vet knew to tell us. There do seem to be a good number around who are helped by them, for a variety of reasons. My one concern with that type is that they look like the dangling tube might get too easily snagged on things if you didn’t strap it down somehow, though it looks like Felix’s is shorter, maybe partly for that reason. There is probably also good info on how to help prevent that, but I didn’t need to look for that as much. Punkin needed to stay in a big cage to recover when she wasn’t closely supervised, with a frame on her jaw, so that was less of a concern with her tube. (I felt bad about needing to keep her in there, but it did seem to be the best plan.) They wanted her to stay in there, to be safe, while she had the tube for a couple of weeks after the frame came off (to ease her back into eating), because they were also concerned about it getting snagged. Because cats. Humans are usually more aware that they do need to be a little careful. :(But yeah, I’m glad they’re using this technology for cats too where it’s needed. Very literally a lifesaver, in a lot of cases.

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youneedacat:

buckwld5150:

My cat has a snorkel.

Poor Felix isn’t doing too hot. So for those of you who don’t know who Felix is, he’s our gigantic…

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I am glad cats get feeding tubes.

One of our cats had one like his, for about 4 months after surgery to piece her jaw back together when she was about 6 months old. (The best we could figure, she got hit by a car.) I found a lot of good practical advice online from people whose cats needed tubes longer term, for things like dealing with clogs and better actual feeding techniques than the vet knew to tell us. There do seem to be a good number around who are helped by them, for a variety of reasons.

My one concern with that type is that they look like the dangling tube might get too easily snagged on things if you didn’t strap it down somehow, though it looks like Felix’s is shorter, maybe partly for that reason. There is probably also good info on how to help prevent that, but I didn’t need to look for that as much. Punkin needed to stay in a big cage to recover when she wasn’t closely supervised, with a frame on her jaw, so that was less of a concern with her tube. (I felt bad about needing to keep her in there, but it did seem to be the best plan.) They wanted her to stay in there, to be safe, while she had the tube for a couple of weeks after the frame came off (to ease her back into eating), because they were also concerned about it getting snagged. Because cats. Humans are usually more aware that they do need to be a little careful. :(

But yeah, I’m glad they’re using this technology for cats too where it’s needed. Very literally a lifesaver, in a lot of cases.