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StephTech
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I will try my best to describe the situation without leaving out details, but my vets and the entire hospital staff are baffled.
Cotton (2.5yo intact female) was passing blood in her urine last weekend, it persisted from about Friday night to Tuesday night, Wednesday there was no more blood, and there hasn't been any since. Sunday Cotton was placed on an all wet diet, 1 tbsp CSFCLS wet mixed with 1 tbsp water.
Entirely, Cotton is still very active, eating fine, her mouth checks out, drinking well, excreting and urinating normally (she's been on white liners since the blood started). Over the past few months, her weight has decreased slightly, this may be due to her eating less because of the warmer temps. Monday we called the vet and got an appointment for Tuesday afternoon. Tuesday morning I found a mass of tissue, about an 3/4 an inch long and a few cm wide in her liner near her wheel. It's solid, red/pink. See included pictures.
The vet checked Cotton out, and upon physical examination found a firm, 1cm diameter mass palpated in mid-abdomen area. When we submitted the mass for examination by the vet, she took it to several specialists within the teaching hospital and no one had any clue as to what this mass is. I submitted the sample to our diagnostics center yesterday, and because of the long weekend they won't get to really take a look at it until Wednesday, depending on if the tissue sample is still viable, which the lab Dr I spoke with said the sample still looked decent enough to have a go.
It has also been suggested that because she's showing no ill signs and seems to be improving, to wait until we can find out more about the tissue sample to continue forward with any kind of treatment- treatment for her at this point could mean an entire list of things to try. Most likely, we will be gassing her so they can get a better feel at what's going on in her abdomen because on examination she was pretty non-compliant and rolled up :banghead:
My question to anyone with any kind of experience out there is, have you ever heard of such a thing, regardless of species of an animal passing this type of thing with these symptoms or not? Because we are waiting to get a better idea of what this could mean, her prognosis is as of yet undetermined.
Cotton (2.5yo intact female) was passing blood in her urine last weekend, it persisted from about Friday night to Tuesday night, Wednesday there was no more blood, and there hasn't been any since. Sunday Cotton was placed on an all wet diet, 1 tbsp CSFCLS wet mixed with 1 tbsp water.
Entirely, Cotton is still very active, eating fine, her mouth checks out, drinking well, excreting and urinating normally (she's been on white liners since the blood started). Over the past few months, her weight has decreased slightly, this may be due to her eating less because of the warmer temps. Monday we called the vet and got an appointment for Tuesday afternoon. Tuesday morning I found a mass of tissue, about an 3/4 an inch long and a few cm wide in her liner near her wheel. It's solid, red/pink. See included pictures.
The vet checked Cotton out, and upon physical examination found a firm, 1cm diameter mass palpated in mid-abdomen area. When we submitted the mass for examination by the vet, she took it to several specialists within the teaching hospital and no one had any clue as to what this mass is. I submitted the sample to our diagnostics center yesterday, and because of the long weekend they won't get to really take a look at it until Wednesday, depending on if the tissue sample is still viable, which the lab Dr I spoke with said the sample still looked decent enough to have a go.
It has also been suggested that because she's showing no ill signs and seems to be improving, to wait until we can find out more about the tissue sample to continue forward with any kind of treatment- treatment for her at this point could mean an entire list of things to try. Most likely, we will be gassing her so they can get a better feel at what's going on in her abdomen because on examination she was pretty non-compliant and rolled up :banghead:
My question to anyone with any kind of experience out there is, have you ever heard of such a thing, regardless of species of an animal passing this type of thing with these symptoms or not? Because we are waiting to get a better idea of what this could mean, her prognosis is as of yet undetermined.
. We do have a male, Noodles. I am willing to admit there could be a 1% chance it's a fetus- seriously a very small chance if at all- only because I know they can be extremely quick, but they're always supervised. My husband and I originally thought that's what it may be, and we're even hoping so because that would certainly explain the blood, but so far the vet and other specialists aren't entirely convinced that's what it is. I am keeping my fingers crossed the diagnostic center will find out something more. 
