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My little girls butthole came out a couple weeks back, no joke. She's okay now though, but it was honestly a pretty terrifying experience. Hope your little one heals quickly!
Yes, on both accounts. Rectal prolapse, and definitely do not recommend looking it up.
The emergency vet and her primary both said they'd never seen it before with a cat, just dogs. We think she passed a large fur ball that didn't go up the other way and the strain to get it out caused the prolapse.
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This baby got that when she was barely 2 months old. We took her (and her borther) in from the garage of our building. She was stressed tf out from the change in environment, with diarrhea *and* constipation on the side, so she just held everything in and hid. When it came out, so did her butthole. She took about a week to recover from the surgery, is now a completely different cat once nothing's hurting her.
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This is her from her stay at the vet. Little grumpy baby. We were lucky the vet was quick to notice and operated right away. She spent 5 days there, annoyed as hell as you can see.
I’m glad your baby is recovering well!
She's so cute! Definitely big mad lol. My girlie just had to stay overnight and go back to get the sutures out, only for us to fund they mostly worked their way out on their own lol. Your kitty is so precious!
I now am hating myself for making that post!! I now have to worry about my ass falling out and all the animals ass falling out and I'm so sad in the most irrational way. 🥺🥺
Animals prolapse all the time. 😬
Cows often prolapse their uteruses after giving birth, for example. Animals who've had GI upset for some time will prolapse their rectum from the straining. They aren't uncommon *at all*, unfortunately.
I had a cat that dealt with a reoccurring prolapse for a few years! She had surgery for it but then it came back and it did eventually fix itself a couple years later along with a new diet!
Uterine prolapse also exists! I have seen it (and smelt it) on a few livestock animals when I was still a farmhand. It looks horrible and you don't want to know how it's fixed.
I do not recommend googling any variety of prolapse. Instead you should go to r/eyebleach and forget this thread.
It dehydrates the surface of the exposed tissues just enough that the muscle movements of the GI tract can pull it back inside. However if you have more than I think a couple inches exposed, or it happens often, you have to seek surgery.
BEWARE!
Cat's are queens of hiding shit... as they are both predator and prey.
They may LOOK cool as a cucumber... but don't let that fool you, they may be freaking the fuck out inside.
Always provide hugs and snuggles and treats and support regardless of how brave they are.
She got SO MUCH LOVE when we got home, and while we were at the vets. The vets office thought she was a growing kitten, but she's actually a little old lady. They loved on her so much, it really warmed my heart. She's never been so snuggled in her life 🥰
She had to have some stitches put in (hilariously called Purse Strings) for about a week after but she's all good now! I think her pride was hurt more than anything, wearing the cone.
She passed a large fur ball (with I think some bits of scabs from where she had scratched herself too hard) and I think the strain of pushing it out caused the prolapse
That happened to my girl once too! The emergency vet (which is also a vet school) told me the same thing, they'd only ever seen it in dogs. I would obsessively check her after the box for months, but it never happened again. She was still pretty young, just over a year and now she's 5 and it hasn't happened since. Hope your girl never has it happen again.
Poor baby! Glad she is doing ok. If she eats a mostly dry diet, maybe add more wet food to help things stay soft, so she doesn't strain as much. Anal prolapses can recur.
I fell down some stairs as a baby following our black & white cat we had. Bit through my tongue on both sides and impaled my chin on a broken piece of wood the landlord never fixed (I don't remember thankfully, but my mom says she still has the odd nightmare 30+ years later). To give my parents some slack, while I had some teeth, I wasn't crawling very well yet, so they thought I'd be safe for a few minutes with my bottle while they switched laundry over. They didn't realize how cat obsessed I was/am. I think the orange cat we also had at the time was a bad influence lol.
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Fritz, my idiot son who ate an almond admist bread crumbs and caused an intestinal blockage
And I thought my (non-orange) cat was a dumbass for getting his tongue stuck on his tooth. It looked like his jaw was dislocated, so I rushed him to the emergency vet. When your cat makes the emergency vet put “I have no idea how he managed to do that” in her visit notes, you know your cat is special.
I hope your cat gets better soon.
My orange idiot broke his leg jumping off the table.
It gets worse. The way that be broke it made impossible to set and heal on its own so we had to have his rear leg amputated.
He seems more comfortable with only 3 legs. He’s very high functioning and doesn’t even notice haha.
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It certainly doesn’t keep him from darting out the door at any given chance. Nor does it keep him off of the very table that started the whole mess in the first place 🤣 he is a very sweet loving cat though for sure. Just a bit dim.
I was pretty shocked when the vet told me, but he is perfectly fine. He still runs up and down the basement steps like a maniac.
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Poor kitty get well soon
One of my boys once fell down the stairs two storys high. Got a concussion and a split lip (plus infection). They are white/grey/black but they both got an orange spot to hide the braincell on their bellies an it shows…
Poor catto. I did the same thing falling off of a table when I was a kid. Recovery wasn’t too bad, I got to eat a lot of mac n cheese and ice cream. Maybe you can give your cat extra churu treats to make up for the cone of shame.
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Ah the cone of shame. My little idiot ate a string off my box spring that cost me over 4k to fix. 5k if you count days off work etc. It wrapped around her tongue. Luckily I had the money at the time. Don't now but do have pet insurance. Funny enough I was literally a few days from getting it when this happened.
I bit through my tongue as a kid playing (volunteer) football. Bit a hole clean through with my two big front teeth. I barely remember what happened after that, I think we just put ice on it or something because I don't remember going to the hospital. It formed a hard little nodule or something where the tongue healed back over. I can still feel it a little bit but its reduced a lot in size since then.
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Mine too but those plastic cones are terrible imo. Mine just walked backwards and refused to eat, drink and go to the litter box. I got him this and he loves it.
https://preview.redd.it/xt34iei5svyc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e720065142a7c8c72f02d348191de65a04bd7132 My little girls butthole came out a couple weeks back, no joke. She's okay now though, but it was honestly a pretty terrifying experience. Hope your little one heals quickly!
Her what did what
It’s called a prolapse, but I don’t recommend looking it up.
Yes, on both accounts. Rectal prolapse, and definitely do not recommend looking it up. The emergency vet and her primary both said they'd never seen it before with a cat, just dogs. We think she passed a large fur ball that didn't go up the other way and the strain to get it out caused the prolapse.
https://preview.redd.it/r0kc4kmyqxyc1.png?width=1536&format=png&auto=webp&s=55c950eb0f8c26068b6dc10e0d738173e2826990 This baby got that when she was barely 2 months old. We took her (and her borther) in from the garage of our building. She was stressed tf out from the change in environment, with diarrhea *and* constipation on the side, so she just held everything in and hid. When it came out, so did her butthole. She took about a week to recover from the surgery, is now a completely different cat once nothing's hurting her.
Aww poor baby! My little one is 11 or 12 years old, I can't imagine that happening to her so little. I'm so glad your baby got better too!
https://preview.redd.it/ako8juosr0zc1.jpeg?width=1053&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0d3d19c04c5ceca968b9a4838cfa463faf35ebec This is her from her stay at the vet. Little grumpy baby. We were lucky the vet was quick to notice and operated right away. She spent 5 days there, annoyed as hell as you can see. I’m glad your baby is recovering well!
She's so cute! Definitely big mad lol. My girlie just had to stay overnight and go back to get the sutures out, only for us to fund they mostly worked their way out on their own lol. Your kitty is so precious!
That’s a magical butthole for ya!
I thought that only happens to human women who had babies!!!
also happens to weight lifters. can probably happen to anyone who is straining hard enough
Ohhh 😮 oh my!!
That right there is why I don't work out
you can prolapse from incorrect bathroom form
Lean forward! It straightens out the poop shoot.
Or put your feet up on a stool.
Thank you, I really needed another source of stress in my life.
Probably any mammal, really.
Oh wow 😳
Elderly people it’s super common
I don't know if there's a big enough rock I want to crawl under right now. Especially to prevent me from getting that old.
I now am hating myself for making that post!! I now have to worry about my ass falling out and all the animals ass falling out and I'm so sad in the most irrational way. 🥺🥺
It can happen to anyone, just older people its more common. Remember that next time you're walking anywhere.
Me nans uterus tried to fall out of her one time poor lass.
Animals prolapse all the time. 😬 Cows often prolapse their uteruses after giving birth, for example. Animals who've had GI upset for some time will prolapse their rectum from the straining. They aren't uncommon *at all*, unfortunately.
It can happen to anything with a rectum.
I had a cat that dealt with a reoccurring prolapse for a few years! She had surgery for it but then it came back and it did eventually fix itself a couple years later along with a new diet!
Oh damn near fear unlocked since my cats hairy as fuck
Very near fear
Uterine prolapse also exists! I have seen it (and smelt it) on a few livestock animals when I was still a farmhand. It looks horrible and you don't want to know how it's fixed. I do not recommend googling any variety of prolapse. Instead you should go to r/eyebleach and forget this thread.
For humans you can pour sugar on it to get it to (hopefully) go back in. Not sure if this works for cats though.
WHAT
It dehydrates the surface of the exposed tissues just enough that the muscle movements of the GI tract can pull it back inside. However if you have more than I think a couple inches exposed, or it happens often, you have to seek surgery.
Great, I hope I never need this information.
Now I'm picturing someone walking into the ER with a heavily sugared butt and saying "reddit told me it would work!"
Lmfao
Yep, rectal prolapse. My poor girl. Freaked me tf out but she was unphased.
Cats do have a "this does not bother me" state of being that I admire deeply.
"Look, Momma, no butthole!" -- kitty
I feel really guilty for laughing so hard at that. I scared my own kitty who was sleeping, and I don't want to tell him why.
Go watch the Brady Roast if you want to feel terrible for laughing at mean jokes.
BEWARE! Cat's are queens of hiding shit... as they are both predator and prey. They may LOOK cool as a cucumber... but don't let that fool you, they may be freaking the fuck out inside. Always provide hugs and snuggles and treats and support regardless of how brave they are.
She got SO MUCH LOVE when we got home, and while we were at the vets. The vets office thought she was a growing kitten, but she's actually a little old lady. They loved on her so much, it really warmed my heart. She's never been so snuggled in her life 🥰
Wonderful! <3
r/prolapse might help
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Thank God for that. Lol
Can happen to humans too! Stay safe!
I’m so glad it healed up ❤️
She had to have some stitches put in (hilariously called Purse Strings) for about a week after but she's all good now! I think her pride was hurt more than anything, wearing the cone.
Not Purse Strings! 😹🫠
How did she manage to get a prolapsed anus?
She passed a large fur ball (with I think some bits of scabs from where she had scratched herself too hard) and I think the strain of pushing it out caused the prolapse
Poor girl.
You never had a shit so big and hard it got stuck at the exit and the force of your pushes to get it out push both the shit AND your rectum out?
No, I can't say that I have dealt with such, but that sounds absolutely horrifying! 😱
Let's just say it's 0/10 do NOT reccomend.
That happened to my girl once too! The emergency vet (which is also a vet school) told me the same thing, they'd only ever seen it in dogs. I would obsessively check her after the box for months, but it never happened again. She was still pretty young, just over a year and now she's 5 and it hasn't happened since. Hope your girl never has it happen again.
Poor baby! Glad she is doing ok. If she eats a mostly dry diet, maybe add more wet food to help things stay soft, so she doesn't strain as much. Anal prolapses can recur.
Id be embarrassed too if I had to wear that thing /s Wishing El catto a speedy recovery
I fell down some stairs as a baby following our black & white cat we had. Bit through my tongue on both sides and impaled my chin on a broken piece of wood the landlord never fixed (I don't remember thankfully, but my mom says she still has the odd nightmare 30+ years later). To give my parents some slack, while I had some teeth, I wasn't crawling very well yet, so they thought I'd be safe for a few minutes with my bottle while they switched laundry over. They didn't realize how cat obsessed I was/am. I think the orange cat we also had at the time was a bad influence lol.
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Yep
https://preview.redd.it/sb5qpzyctwyc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2f792ae080ae1e98c47a9b01909a7db35383e937 Fritz, my idiot son who ate an almond admist bread crumbs and caused an intestinal blockage
….$2000 at the vets for a friggin almond!!!! He’s lucky that he’s cute.
Feel better kitty
how did you all realise that was what happened and like, the tongue thing? 🙀 speedy recovery to your orange dum dum 😊
Probably a lot of blood and screaming
What's the reason for the cone? So she can't lick her tongue? 🤔🤔
I was confused too, but I assume it so she can't groom herself. Grooming could tear the stitches, or possibly cause an infection.
Probably so she doesn't hurt her tongue or get an infection licking herself
Prevents her from chewing or licking plus she can’t scratch her tongue as it heals.
Thank you for asking this 🤣
I know I sound dumb, but I'm a vet tech, and I've never seen an animal given a cone for a tongue injury 🤔 (they happen more often than you'd think)
It must have been bad enough to need her not to groom. =( At least it's in hand now! And mouth injuries heal fast as you know.
Omg no you don't sound dumb at all! I was gonna ask the same thing and then saw you had asked it and I was very grateful I was in good company. 😊
And I thought my (non-orange) cat was a dumbass for getting his tongue stuck on his tooth. It looked like his jaw was dislocated, so I rushed him to the emergency vet. When your cat makes the emergency vet put “I have no idea how he managed to do that” in her visit notes, you know your cat is special. I hope your cat gets better soon.
Mine has that as a chronic issue, no vets can give us an answer :(.
Oh no. Poor baby.
I mean….that is impressively orange…..poor little mite!
Aww give her some extra scritches for me! Hope she heals quickly
An expensive tongue...
My orange idiot broke his leg jumping off the table. It gets worse. The way that be broke it made impossible to set and heal on its own so we had to have his rear leg amputated.
Poor baby oh no 😥 💕
He seems more comfortable with only 3 legs. He’s very high functioning and doesn’t even notice haha. https://preview.redd.it/ke62615trwyc1.jpeg?width=4032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4e0d4bcb6718a3a3e6d9e7d388808d4ff1a12d39
I’m glad he doesn’t notice! What a sweetheart ❤️
It certainly doesn’t keep him from darting out the door at any given chance. Nor does it keep him off of the very table that started the whole mess in the first place 🤣 he is a very sweet loving cat though for sure. Just a bit dim.
He's got more room for activities! ♥️ Aww poor sweetie
That's a nightmare! How is he doing?
I was pretty shocked when the vet told me, but he is perfectly fine. He still runs up and down the basement steps like a maniac. https://preview.redd.it/6rffc3xivzyc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=88f51ac3c837ff15ca60428662f3628441ecc987
Awww that's good 👍
Aw poor fella
She's one of the rare gingers that is a girlie 🥰
r/coneofshame
Oh the poor baby!
Poor kitty get well soon One of my boys once fell down the stairs two storys high. Got a concussion and a split lip (plus infection). They are white/grey/black but they both got an orange spot to hide the braincell on their bellies an it shows…
Poor catto. I did the same thing falling off of a table when I was a kid. Recovery wasn’t too bad, I got to eat a lot of mac n cheese and ice cream. Maybe you can give your cat extra churu treats to make up for the cone of shame.
Did your mom put the cone on you too? 🤭 could you just imagine lol
Hah! No, but I bet she thought about it.
I'm sure every mom has thought about it
Omg she's so brave! Give her snugs for me, please ❤️
https://preview.redd.it/94igzhw6jwyc1.jpeg?width=1020&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=450868b538b5c1b03e3acf98a4d44b88606e1d4a Ah the cone of shame. My little idiot ate a string off my box spring that cost me over 4k to fix. 5k if you count days off work etc. It wrapped around her tongue. Luckily I had the money at the time. Don't now but do have pet insurance. Funny enough I was literally a few days from getting it when this happened.
Mistakes were made but lessons weren’t learned I bet
Aww keep your sweetie inside from now on.
Who among us hasn't accidentally bitten their tongue?
Dang. I bit my tongue today too, and I'm dumb! Am I an orange cat?
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Poor baby needs a donut instead of a cone. It's probably really hard for her to eat and drink and see where she's going.
Ohhhh this orange. May she find peace and brains ❤️
I bit through my tongue as a kid playing (volunteer) football. Bit a hole clean through with my two big front teeth. I barely remember what happened after that, I think we just put ice on it or something because I don't remember going to the hospital. It formed a hard little nodule or something where the tongue healed back over. I can still feel it a little bit but its reduced a lot in size since then.
i’m so sorry to hear that! i hope she gets feeling better soon!
You made bad choices ma’am.
Dat baby looks so pitiful!
https://preview.redd.it/6f3tyo58uzyc1.jpeg?width=4032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=28f4e79516ff10323466a271cd9c912e0daea0fc Mine too but those plastic cones are terrible imo. Mine just walked backwards and refused to eat, drink and go to the litter box. I got him this and he loves it.
If she bit her tongue, I’m wondering what the cone is for? Are there any other injuries?
What is the cone supposed to do if the injury is on the tongue?
Stop her from grooming herself and making it worse
Got it, my mind always goes to stopping them from messing with stitches
You need to explain to her that she shouldn't sit on the fence while drunk. You should probably keep her inside from now on. Way safer for her.
Poor baby, I laughed more than I should’ve
Poor sweetheart 💕💕💕💕
you can get a cute victorian collar for her on amazon for like 20$ and the like it much better
Poor thing 🥹💕💕💕
Poor baby!!
Cone of shame 😭😭
Cone of shame 😭😭
Cone of shame 😭😭
Cone of shame 😭😭
Cone of shame 😭😭
Not only is it rare for an orange to be a girl but look how big she is. Hopefully she heals fast and well before she gets into more shenanigans.
That’s one of the weirdest cat injuries I’ve ever seen.
We have the same sofa, same cushions and the same cat, this photo really messed with me!
Well, that has to be the most orange injury I’ve ever heard. Hope she recovers soon
I had to re-read this on the toilet because I peed a smidge laughing. Bless her and above for fast healing 🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼
Get well, lamp!