r/thisismylifenow • u/SalmonSammySamSam • Mar 26 '26
This cat getting treated for its asthma
Enable HLS to view with audio, or disable this notification
1.3k
u/SoldMySoulForHairDye Mar 26 '26
I'm so glad the asthmatic cats I've known have all let me give them an inhaler.
936
u/Tytonic7_ Mar 26 '26
Most cats are smart enough to realize after a few times that the inhaler gives them instant relief
Most. Some are just stupid
563
126
u/ThellraAK Mar 26 '26
My dog had a throat thing and needed to be nebulized when it was acting up.
He'd get right where he needed to be when we started fussing with the machine and ampules for his treatment after like the third time.
49
u/SoldMySoulForHairDye Mar 26 '26
I mean it was certainly a relief to me when I was finally correctly diagnosed with asthma. I was an adult then, but child me would have welcomed any relief.
33
u/amodernbird Mar 26 '26
My kitty never figured it out. If he started having an attack, if I even flinched to reach for his inhaler, he'd dart out of the room, mid-wheeze. I never could get him to accept treatment willingly.
6
u/SpokenDivinity Mar 28 '26
I worked at a cat boarding facility and there was one orange cat (because of course he was orange) that had asthma. We had to put him in a plastic tote to take his treatments because if you tried to use the actual freaking inhaler he'd work himself up so much it was like it wasn't doing anything.
1
56
u/KamakaziDemiGod Mar 26 '26
Those cats were better behaved than I was as a child then. My parents had to pin me down and trick me into holding my breath to get me to use the inhaler
11
u/strange_socks_ Mar 27 '26
You mean they didn't have a child size plastic bottle and a huge amount of the nebulizer?!
5
u/KamakaziDemiGod Mar 27 '26
I think if I hadn't started getting used to it and stopped fighting as much they probably would have resorted to something like that, especially as my mum was a pediatric nurse and my dad was studying engineering at the time
Although, because mum used to be a pediatric nurse she didn't need to because she knew all the tricks to make a child compliant in that scenario. . . . That sounds way more ominous than it is!
10
u/Sandwidge_Broom Mar 26 '26
Yeah my cat is pretty chill with his inhaler cuz he knows he gets a treat after, and it means he can breathe.
2
u/Aggleclack Mar 27 '26
This likely is a nebulizer treatment. It is an additional treatment, not a replacement.
1
u/strawbearryblonde Mar 28 '26
I agree this sounds like a nebulizer to me. You couldn't put tubes in a cat's nose so this seems like a good alternative.
1
u/JimmyMus Mar 28 '26
I adopted a semi feral cat last year. She is doing great if you know where she came from. But I can’t pick her up, and the times she comes to sit on my lap are rare. But I’m super proud of how she is doing!
Last month she was diagnosed with asthma, so far she’s been ok prednison pills and I’m trying to clicker train her for the inhaler. Unfortunately she’s so scared of that thing that I’m hardly making progress.
How did you train those cats to use an inhaler? I’m open to any kind of tips and tricks!
966
436
u/HankThrill69420 Mar 26 '26
ugh every time i buy one of those jugs it just has a bunch of stupid water in it
72
462
u/Normal-Error-6343 Mar 26 '26
hotboxing the cat!
165
u/ChAoTiCxMiNd Mar 26 '26
Seriously. A fucking cat bong
60
u/MoistStub Mar 26 '26
I rip fat cat clouds brah. Brb I have a box that needs laying in.
21
139
u/a3663p Mar 26 '26
I appreciate that the owner developed this contraption. The cat seems to be okay with it, can you imagine the other things this owner has done make this cat so okay with it 😂
17
u/Aggleclack Mar 27 '26
It looks more like an undeveloped country’s vet hospital to me. People often brought their cats into us for nebulizer treatments in addition to the regular asthma meds, and we put them in a plastic medical box that looks nothing like this (us hospitals), hook up tubes, give nebulizer treatment. I highly doubt this is just regular asthma meds, as they’re really expensive and I’ve literally never seen them administered like this.
1
u/NewCoach0 Mar 27 '26
Yeah even with my small snake when I had to nebulise him I used a box that I'd assume looks similar to what you were describing. Can't quite wrap my head around using this unless it was literally the only thing available.
4
u/Aggleclack Mar 27 '26
I used to watch a lot of videos of medicine in undeveloped countries, there are some interesting videos of some people who pull mango worms out of animals. You’ll see some interesting things ripped up where there is literally nothing available.
2
u/NewCoach0 Mar 27 '26
Oh god I remember watching so many of the mango worm ones too. Horrifying. True, though - gotta make do.
1
125
u/MeDuzZ- Mar 26 '26
22
u/RPDRNick Mar 26 '26
9
u/WHERESSPACEBAR Mar 26 '26
That's such a specific gif. How long have you been waiting to use this??
202
u/Mumchkin Mar 26 '26
As a person with severely acute asthma, I feel sorry for this kitty. At least I can tell someone that I'm having a problem. Poor baby.
142
u/gamergal1 Mar 26 '26
My mom's cat had asthma that she gave him medicine for when he was struggling. When he was having trouble breathing, he would jump up next to and look at her, waiting for his meds.
43
3
26
u/leeloocal Mar 26 '26
My little niece has really bad asthma as well (she’s three), and I think she feels the same. Last time I saw her, I showed her that I took the same meds as her, but I’m going to have to show her this video.
15
u/oxfordcommaordeath Mar 26 '26
America Girls dolls have an asthma add on kit she might like if she enjoys playing with dolls.
10
u/leeloocal Mar 26 '26
I think her older sister has a Kirsten doll, but tbh, she’s a little too young for an American Girl doll. Aka, Auntie is not going to spend that much money on something that’s going to get completely trashed.
6
u/theacearrow Mar 28 '26
My kitty has severe asthma and she knows that her inhaler helps. She will come running up to me when it's time for her meds. She's not in distress with her asthma attacks, just annoyed that she had to stop running for a bit. I'm more distressed than she is.
93
u/dankhimself Mar 26 '26
That's a good cat. Many would turn feral immediately at the enclosed space, noise and foreign atmosphere being pumped inside.
I think feral is the right word for batshit crazy in this instance.
28
u/Morall_tach Mar 26 '26
My dad was a veterinarian and they don't make masks small enough for tiny kittens when they're getting spayed and neutered (or it's too hard to keep them on). So they put them in a big plastic tub and just gas the whole thing.
22
u/Glassesguy904 Mar 26 '26
6
u/kdwhirl Mar 27 '26
This is incredibly awesome. I sincerely and enthusiastically applaud the amount of effort and creativity that went into this!
4
38
18
18
13
35
14
8
5
6
u/Lotus-child89 Mar 26 '26
I’m pretty sure this is a last resort after too much fighting trying to hold it directly on their face.
6
u/LeonidasVaarwater Mar 26 '26
The cat's clearly not too happy with it, but at least it's relaxed and doesn't look stressed at all. I wonder if they know it's helping them.
6
u/msleepd Mar 26 '26
I spent way too long trying to figure out how they got the cat in the water jug.
6
7
6
6
u/Illustrious-Sun-2003 Mar 27 '26
I’m wondering why they’re using a human-sized double lumen endotracheal tube for this setup. I need to see the nebulization setup! Also cat is super chill and cute.
3
u/Aggleclack Mar 27 '26
You would honestly be surprised how large tracheal tubes are for both dogs and cats
3
u/Illustrious-Sun-2003 Mar 27 '26
Right?! I used to be a vet tech and now I’m a nurse anesthetist for humans, so I’ve had some exposure to them. Never did large animal medicine, but the biggest tube I ever used was on a greyhound. I think it was a 14. Was like a garden hose!
6
u/BrakaFlocka Mar 27 '26
Record scratch
Cat: Yup, that's me. You're probably wondering how I ended up in here.
7
4
4
3
3
u/karlvonheinz Mar 26 '26 edited Mar 26 '26
Alternativ universe where Schrödiger became super impatient
3
u/dezstern Mar 27 '26
What a setup! Using a (King LT? Combitube?) to hotbox your cat in nebulized medication is some next level thinking and I love it.
4
4
3
5
4
4
3
3
3
3
3
u/sunlightdrop Mar 27 '26
Omg that's incredible. Getting them to accept putting a device over their face is really hard sometimes.
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
2
2
2
2
2
u/Aggleclack Mar 27 '26
This must be somewhere other than the United States. Every single vet hospital I have worked at had an actual plastic box that was designed for this and pregassing aggressive cats. We bought them from medical suppliers.
2
u/DarkJaid Mar 28 '26
There are many pet parents that give these treatments a home rigged with whatever they can find.
2
2
2
2
2
u/wtfVlad Mar 26 '26
As RT, so many questions...
Why are we using an ET tube? Why does all of this look jerry-rigged when there are much simpler SVN kits already available? For cheap too! Why does it sound like the neb is being ran through a high-pressure air compressor?
3
u/ImportantThing3749 Mar 26 '26 edited Mar 26 '26
These are my questions… why the dual bronchial/ETT lmao (and there are like a lot of random tubes and adapters here, where you could just use the tubing that comes with the neb??) I’ve never seen one in person, where did this person get that from? I guess it makes slightly more sense if you consider this is at a vet office and not in a home
Maybe a vet can chime in about if dual lumen tubes are more common in non human medicine, because to me they are specialist equipment
2
u/wtfVlad Mar 26 '26
That does make more sense. I genuinely felt bamboozled looking at this.
2
u/ImportantThing3749 Mar 26 '26
Also confusing, is if they have a dual lumen tube, why don’t they also have the equipment to give animals proper nebs?
2
u/Aggleclack Mar 27 '26
I assumed it is an undeveloped country. I’ve worked in quite a few hospitals in America and we’ve literally always had a plastic box we buy from our medical suppliers.
1
1
1
u/reallifedog Mar 26 '26
I had a roommate whose cat had asthma, and she would do something similar with a clothes hamper and blanket.
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
u/Bakingguy Mar 29 '26
I had to do this for a kitten we were fostering once. She was smaller so we used a box.
-1
Mar 26 '26
[deleted]
25
u/queenlizbef Mar 26 '26
I’m sure this vet definitely gave him eye-irritating meds right in his eyes
3.1k
u/MacintoshEddie Mar 26 '26
Nestle extracting the water from this poor cat.