02/16/2026
Yesterday was a sad, hard day for us all. Lady called us late yesterday afternoon at 5:30 about her cat that had something wrong with him and could we help. She had no funds. She sent us a video. One look at the video and we knew this was something needing immediate action: the cat was in agony. Trouble breathing, foaming at the mouth, tongue hanging out and crying in agony. This was 5:45 on a Saturday of a long weekend. Only clinic open was Court Animal Hospital and they closed at 7. Our driver had to go from Welland to Smithville to get this kitty and then drive all the way back to St. Catharines to get to the vet at 7. Well got to hand it to our driver: he pulled into the clinic’s parking lot right at 7 pm. Kudos to the clinic for waiting for him and staying beyond 7pm to care for this cat. The doctor said the cat had ingested something toxic and so much damage had already been done that he was beyond help. He said he could do x rays but there would be no point because he could tell there was no way of saving him. So he was humanely euthanized to end his agony. Moral of the story? Keep all medicine, cleaning materials and poisons away from your cats. Please don’t put poison out for rats and mice because that poison in turn will get into any animal that eats the poisoned mouse or rat. Casper was exhibiting symptoms of acute poisoning—and we don’t know what caused Casper’s initial poisoning--when, in an attempt to ease his pain, the lady gave him children’s Tylenol. But children’s Tylenol is toxic to cats so this only compounded the problem. Poison on top of poison. Please don’t ever give cats human medicine because it is toxic to them and the end result will be acute poisoning, and death from poison is agonizing. Rest in peace Casper.
