This is Domino! Our little sniffer.

She used to live in a parking lot and when we scooped her up and brought her home the vet estimated she was about two years old, meaning she's around six to seven today.

Recently Domino went in for an annual checkup at the vet, and they said she looked to be in perfect health, except a little gingivitis build up on her gums. They recommended a cleaning and about four days later we dropped her off for her dental.

Later that day when we picked her up she was still a little loopy from the procedure and the medications, but she seemed fine. The vet had called earlier in the day to say the cleaning went well and everything was perfectly normal. Domino ate her dinner that night just fine, and the next morning she seemed back to her normal self. Happy as can be, eating her breakfast, and rolling around on the floor.

Throughout the day though she slowly started to show signs of sickness. I heard her sad meowing and we found out she had thrown up multiple times upstairs. When she eventually threw up again and continued to sad meow we decided to bring her back into the vet for an emergency visit while they were still open. Domino was examined by another vet at the same place she had her dental cleaning, who took her vitals and said she was doing fine, and she was probably just stressed out. They said to call in the morning if she was still bad.

We took her home and throughout the night she only seemed to get worse, we did our best to comfort her but she started pacing from spot to spot, started panting a lot, and was meowing in distress more. We figured we would take her back into the vet in the morning, but at 3AM we were awoken by Domino trying and failing to jump into bed with us. She was significantly worse, floppy, and weak. We immediately packed her into her carrier and rushed her an hour and change to the nearest overnight pet ER.

By the time we got there she was not even moving, and barely could squeak. They immediately rushed her into the back room to start working on healing her. They said she had almost no pulse and was hypothermic, she was so cold they couldn't even get a reading of her temperature.

After a couple hours there they said that she would have to be transferred to another location since they were only an overnight ER. In those hours they were able to get her vitals up a little bit, but she was still in critical condition. We quickly rushed her another 30 minutes to the recommended 24/7 pet hospital.

We left her there at about 8:30AM and unfortunately got in our car and cried, made the drive home, cried some more, and powered through the day hoping she would recover. We received a couple updates throughout the day that she had marginally improved, but everything was still uncertain. By evening when they were ready to switch to their overnight doctor we received another update that she was at least in stable condition, but not ready to go home.

At the time of writing Domino's future is still uncertain. I am in the hospital with her right now and she is certainly doing a LOT better than she was the other night when we woke up and had to rush her in. They hospital has been able to address some concerns with her kidneys and get her vitals back up to where they should be, and at this time she is sitting next to me and is stable and doing okay - just very stressed out.

The issue now is that her intestines aren't moving at all, leading her to be unable to digest or pass any food through her system. This, coupled with the kidney issues, are what caused her to fall into such a poor condition in the first place. The doctors are hopeful that if we can get her intestines moving again she will fully recover and go home with us tonight.

What is certain is how much money we are spending to keep our cat alive, and while I don't regret this decision and would do it again a million times, it is a financial burden for us and hitting us a day before we have to pay our mortgage as well. Any help towards offsetting some of these costs and helping us to keep this cat in the hospital until she can fully recover is immensely appreciated. Anything helps, thank you so much.