Worried Owner Takes Cat To The Vet And Pays £200 For Tests, Turns Out That The Cat Is Just A Picky Eater (Viral Thread)

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Mariel Ruvinsky • Writer and Editor
Sep 3, 2023 10:00 AM EDT

Going with your cat to the vet… is always an experience. You're either terrified because it's an emergency visit, or it's your usual yearly visit, and you're just kind of preparing for madness. It is a known fact that cats hate the vet and will do just about anything to avoid going into their crate the moment they realize where you're headed. But you know what? As nerve-wracking as it is, sometimes, going with your cat to the vet is hilarious. It just is. Everything is totally fine, but your cat is acting like a mad drama queen. 

But the best cat vet visits are by far the ones that start with fear and end with hilarity. Just the relief of everything being fine makes everything okay. And that's what the person in today's thread experienced. Along with some exasperation over how much money they put into this completely unnecessary visit.  

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    Font - Posted by u/CaptainGrayC 2 days ago 4 This is Harry. Harry just caused me to have a £200 vet bill because he was screaming all the time and losing weight despite always being hungry. Turns out he didn't like the food we were giving him. Harry is an a hole.
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    Listen, you can complain as much as you want about your cat being an a-hole and wasting your money and being a drama queen who worried you for no reason, but we know how relieved you felt when you got the news that that's all your cat in. We'll take 'picky eater drama queen' cat over 'sick cat' any friggin' day. 

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    Vertebrate - LT
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    You could not have picked a better photo for this post, we have to say that. It looks like your cat is complaining - both about the food and about the vet visit and about the fact that you dare question its actions. We love him. Obsessed. 

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    Cat - Dependent Share194 +1 · 2 days ago And he'll do it again 4 6.2k Reply Share
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    Font - CaptainGrayC OP. 2 days ago Harry is currently mad I woke him up laughing at your comment Imao 2.9k Reply Share
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    Font - Matasa89 +2. 2 days ago I wish you took a photo of his angy face. I wana see Angy Harry. Reply Share 231
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    Font - Captain GrayC OP 2 days ago He usually wakes me up demanding attention so it was his turn for a change. I'll show a photo of when I had to put flea treatment on him though, genuinely thought I wouldn't wake up the next day ahaha
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    Font - bigbuutie 2 days ago He looks like 'hey B***** it's your fault, I thought I was clear I didn't like that food' 209 Reply Share
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    Font - CaptainGrayC OP. 2 days ago He ate six pouches of wet cat food a day (we thought shrinkflation was why) and he ate all of it like he was starving. Turns out the dried cat food which he rarely ate was what was causing the issue, but because he never really ate it to begin with it wasn't weird that he wasn't eating it 139 Reply Share
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    Font - crispymuff 2 days ago You had the money laying around, Harry knew you'd use it on something like bills, or a holiday. Harry was helping you and old mate hazza will do it again 892 Reply Share
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    Font - Fit-Owl-7188 +1 2 days ago You go Harry. Now everyone in your family knows their proper place - minions to your every whim and grant you access to their bank accounts. Reply Share 992
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    Font - suuskip +2. 2 days ago Ahh yes.... This lady cost me a similar amount for obsessively chewing on any hard with only one side of her mouth. Her adult teeth had come in a couple months prior and that was when the chewing started, so we thought something was wrong. Nope, the teeth are perfect, she's just an oddball who likes to chew stuff like she's a dog.
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    Cat - Unfortunately for the both of us they don't make chewtoys for cats because "cats don't chew", yeah... tell that to our Mia... luckily she mostly grew out of it and can now fulfill her chewing needs with matabi sticks
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    Font - Monkittyruccia22+1 · 2 days ago Awe. How else is supposed to communicate 597 Reply Share Captain GrayC OP. 2 days ago If he wasn't constantly screaming about everything (want attention, it's raining outside, I want to be picked up, look at me) then I'd probably be able to guess what he was after, but nope. Although the rate of screaming went from about 10 to 100 lol 703 Reply Share
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    Font - ADHD_orc 2 days ago Hey OP they test for hyperthyroidism when you were there? Just based off what you're describing in the title I would hope your vet did a T4 panel on your lil goomba Reply Share 13
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    Font - CaptainGrayC OP. 2 days ago Yes, they did! That's actually what I thought it was. The £200 was a blood test and screening for thyroid, kidney, and liver. He's got cancer so that's one health issue but the blood test came back clear - they said if he continues to lose weight to bring him back, but right now he's quietened down on the screaming front since we swapped out the dry food Reply Share 17
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    Font - gravitationalarray - 2 days ago ....he has cancer? Poor baby! What? Reply Share 7
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    Font - CaptainGrayC OP. 2 days ago Well it's a bit of an oddity actually. When he was 2, the vets said he had 2 months to live due to a tumour in his spine. He's now 10 and since he lost his leg (it wasted away, nerve compression due to tumour) he hasn't shown any signs of cancer. We aren't going to put him through further tests to find out because there's nothing we could do regardless, but I think he's going to outlive the vets purely out of spite at this point. Aside from the missing leg you'
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