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RE: My best wishes for your lovely felines!

Had the same experience (minus the IV's) with my first Siamese. Got him a couple months after I graduated from college, and had the great pleasure of his company for a little over 18 years.

He was healthy and active (beyond the typical slow-down of older age) through 17 years until one day I came home to find him just sitting in his litter box. Didn't seem to be in any distress, so I wasn't real concerned until the next morning when I found him still sitting in the box. Took him to the vet who immediately diagnosed the problem, cleaned him out, and things were back to normal for about 4 months until the situation repeated itself. Back to the vet, cleaned out, added some liquid laxative to his diet, and things were good for about 3 months. Then 2, and back to the vet. Then 1. And at the end his bowel just quit functioning on its own. He lived by the litter box, not in obvious pain, but very obviously uncomfortable. I had a wonderful vet who looked me in the eye on the last trip and told me that his internal organs were just shutting down, and there was nothing that he could do to change that. And as much as I loved the little critter, he had no quality of life and was spending his conscious moments in misery which I couldn't allow to continue. Toughest thing I'd had to do at that point in my life giving the nod to put him to sleep. And almost 20 years later, I too still miss him.

Timbo, the only advice I can offer is to make GGGIII as comfortable as possible, and if that involves violating his rump then do it if you're confident he's constipated again.



Edits: 01/15/17

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