Hello everyone! A few months ago I came here to tell you the story of how I rescued my cats, Odin and Arwen. I still have to tell you the rescue story of my dog Athena, and my other cat Nefertari (not in the picture) but that will be for another post.
¡Hola a Todos! Hace unos meses vine por aquí para contaros la historia de cómo rescaté a mis gatos, Odín y Arwen. Todavía tengo pendiente contaros la historia de rescate de mi perra Atenea, y mi otra gata Nefertari (no sale en la foto) pero eso será para otro post.
I have recently moved house and neighborhood, and now the veterinary center where I used to go with my furry friends is far away.
Shortly after the move Odin (my blue-eyed cat) started scratching his ears compulsively. So did Arwen, since they are always together.
The first thing I thought was that maybe it was mites again, because Arwen came with them in her ears when I picked her up from the street and, although it had been months since she was cured, I thought that maybe she had left some remains and now she was the same again; and she had given them to Odin.
I made an appointment at the nearest vet to my new home, and I took both kittens to be checked.
The vet took samples of the ears of both of them, they were quite dirty because one of the things that the mites do, those little parasites that bother our friends so much; is that the ear inside is full of brown and black spots from their excrements and the secretion they produce, it is quite disgusting.
But the vet told me that they were not mites, that they had inflamed ears and it was otitis. He prescribed some drops for both of them and that was it.
After a few weeks Arwen was no longer scratching, but Odin was still scratching. He was leaving his ear with sores on the back, inside, and he was even losing his hair behind his ear from scratching.
Hace poco que me he mudado de casa, de barrio, y ahora me queda muy lejos el centro veterinario al que acudía con mis peludos.
Poco después de la mudanza Odín (mi gato de ojos azules) empezó a rascarse compulsivamente las orejas. También Arwen, ya que siempre están juntos.
Lo primero en lo que pensé es que quizás fuesen ácaros de nuevo, porque Arwen vino con ellos en sus orejas cuando la recogí de la calle y, aunque habían pasado meses desde que se curó, pensé en que quizás le había quedado algún resto y ahora estaba otra vez igual; y se los había contagiado a Odín.
Pedí cita en el veterinario más cercano de mi nueva casa, y llevé a los dos gatitos para que les revisasen.
El veterinario cogió muestras de los oídos de ambos, estaban bastante sucios porque una de las cosas que hacen los ácaros, esos pequeños parásitos que tanto molestan a nuestros amigos; es que el oído por dentro se llene de manchas marrones y negras de sus excrementos y de la secreción que producen, da bastante asco.
Pero el veterinario me dijo que no eran ácaros, que tenían los oídos inflamados y era otitis. Me recetó unas gotas para los dos y ya está.
Al cabo de las semanas Arwen ya no se rascaba, pero Odín seguía haciéndolo. Estaba dejándose su oreja con heridas por detrás, por dentro, e incluso se estaba quedando sin pelo detrás de su oreja de tanto rascarse.
I finished the bottle of drops prescribed by the vet and when I saw that he was not getting better, I decided to go to another veterinary center, a little farther than the other one, but it was also in my new neighborhood and I could walk there.
When I went in, I saw that unlike the other one, this one was much bigger and more spacious. They had a piece of furniture where you could put your cat's carrier, and underneath there were some thin canvases sprayed with pheromone spray so that if your kitty is very nervous, you could cover his carrier with that and that way he would be calmer.
Terminé el bote de gotas que me recetó el veterinario y al ver que no se le pasaba, decidí acudir a otro centro veterinario, un poco más lejos que el otro, pero que igualmente estaba en mi barrio nuevo y podía llegar allí caminando.
Al entrar vi que a diferencia del otro, este era mucho más grande y espacioso. Tenían un mueble donde colocar el transportin de tu gato, y abajo como unas lonas finas rociadas de spray de feromonas para que si tu gatito está muy nervioso, cubras su transportin con eso y así se quede más tranquilo.
Odin was calm, but his back was turned to me because he was angry with me for bringing him there. He had spent the whole way there meowing.
Odín estaba tranquilo, pero me daba la espalda porque estaba enfadado conmigo por haberlo llevado hasta allí. Se había pasado todo el camino maullando.
I turned around while waiting to be served, and it struck me that they had some sort of dog bakery.
Me di la vuelta mientras esperaba a que me atendiesen, y me llamó la atención que tenían una especie de panadería para perros.
Let's stop a little bit here and take a closer look; because the below is very common, the typical bones and stuff, but....
Vamos a detenernos un poco aquí y verlo más de cerca; porque lo de abajo es muy común, los típicos huesos y eso, pero...
Burgers, tacos, croissants, pretzels... for dogs! I've never seen this level of detail haha, I couldn't help but buy a few things for my dog.
¡Hamburguesas, tacos, croissants, pretzels... para perros! Nunca había visto este nivel de detalle jaja, no pude evitar comprar algunas cosas para mi perra.
I also noticed that they had refrigerators with natural food, I had seen this because I had a neighbor in my previous house who bought this for her dog; one day she gave me a bag of turkey for Atenea to try it.... But she got diarrhea because she was not used to this type of diet.
También me fijé en que tenían neveras con comida natural, esto sí que lo había visto porque tenía una vecina en mi anterior casa que le compraba esto a su perrita; un día me dio una bolsa de pavo para que lo probase Atenea... Pero le dio diarrea al no estar acostumbrada a este tipo de dieta.
We finally went in to have Odin's ears checked.
Por fin entramos a que nos atendieran y le revisasen las orejas a Odín.
Odin is very good. Although he doesn't like to have his ears looked at and tried to run away getting back into the kennel every time he saw that we were going to hold him to check them, he finally allowed us to do it, even if he made short and sad meows to complain.
In the end, the suspicion I had about it being mites was confirmed by the girl who attended me at this vet. She gave him a pipette and told me to come back in a few days for a check-up.
They also injected him with an anti-inflammatory to relieve him and put a liquid inside his ears to stop the itching. While the vet went to get some gauze to clean the dirt out of his ears, he took the opportunity to look around the room.
Odín es muy bueno. Aunque no le gusta que le miren las orejas e intentase huir metiéndose de nuevo en el transportin cada vez que veía que le íbamos a sujetar para revisárselas, él al final nos lo permitía, aunque hiciese maullidos cortos y tristes para quejarse.
Al final, la sospecha que yo tuve sobre que eran ácaros se confirmó con la chica que me atendió en este veterinario. Le puso una pipeta y me dijo que volviera en unos días para su revisión.
También le inyectaron un antiinflamatorio para aliviarle y le pusieron un líquido por dentro de las orejas para que dejasen de picarle. Mientras la veterinaria se fue a por una gasa para limpiarle la suciedad de los oídos, él aprovechó a curiosear la habitación.
After this day and after a week, he is still scratching but much less. The wound he had inside his ear from so much scratching, like a scab, was practically healed.
Después de este día y al cabo de una semana, se sigue rascando pero mucho menos. Ya la herida que tenía dentro de la oreja de tanto rascarse, como una postilla, ya estaba cicatrizada prácticamente.
Even so, I like to check his ears and I continue cleaning the remains of the mites with wet wipes. I stretch his ear and with the help of my finger I introduce the wipe towards the bottom of his ear, then I rub his earlobe and take the wipe out again.
Aun así me gusta revisarle las orejas y le continuo limpiando los restos de los ácaros con toallitas húmedas. Le estiro la oreja y con ayuda de mi dedo voy introduciendo la toallita hacia el fondo de su oído, después froto su lóbulo y saco de nuevo la toallita.
I hope none of my cats ever get mites again. They are annoying and take forever to die off ☹️.
Thanks for reading!
Espero que ninguno de mis gatos vuelva a tener ácaros nunca más. Son molestos y tardan mucho en morirse ☹️.
¡Gracias por leer!
All photos have been taken by me, with my Xiaomi POCO X3 phone. The text is 100% of my authorship
The collage for the cover was created with the help of canva
Todas las fotos han sido tomadas por mí, con mi móvil Xiaomi POCO X3 El texto es 100% de mi autoría
El collage para la portada ha sido creado con ayuda de canva.
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That's an interesting bakery concept. I recently found out that dogs like to eat human food but with some restrictions. Judging by the looks of the selections, looks like those bakery are really good 😁
Yes, it looks so good that I wanted to try the pretzel or the chicken croissant too haha. But I gave them to my dog and she ate them. At first she looked at them suspiciously because I was trying to give her the deworming pill too, so she took her snack biting carefully and sniffing to see if I hadn't put the pill inside... Because he always spits it out 🤣🤣 I have to open her mouth and put the pill in it myself. Thanks for your comment!