I came home today and DeeDee had a funky look to her fur...like she decided to spike it while we were gone....
I picked her up and she had a slight oily feel and smell to her...come to find out that she managed to get the lid off the pan I had on the back of the counter with cold...needs to throw away....vegetable oil (garbage day is tomorrow)
Question being....will it hurt her...what can I do to clean her up a bit?
Vegetable Oil?!
Are you sure it's from the pan and are you sure it's cooking oil? Please make sure it is that and not something else.
Give her a bath with a couple drops of Dawn dish soap (regular blue type only), lather, rinse, keep rinsing until the oil residue is gone - but be careful, you don't want to stress her! Be sure you towel dry her when done.
If she grooms herself, she might have some serious gastric upset from so much oil, not to mention potential diarrhea/soft stool - call your vet, I don't know how much she's ingested by just grooming or even licking the oil in the pan! Vet can advise further.
Give her a bath with a couple drops of Dawn dish soap (regular blue type only), lather, rinse, keep rinsing until the oil residue is gone - but be careful, you don't want to stress her! Be sure you towel dry her when done.
If she grooms herself, she might have some serious gastric upset from so much oil, not to mention potential diarrhea/soft stool - call your vet, I don't know how much she's ingested by just grooming or even licking the oil in the pan! Vet can advise further.
..........Traci
Re: Vegetable Oil?!
yes, it is most definitely vegetable oil....I only use that or olive oil and hubby and I both recognized the faint smell of used vegetable oil when we sniffed her trying to figure it out....
I would have liked to see how she did it...a few other nearby things on the counter were toppled....I am thinking she jumped and landed "just right" on the edge of the lid, a glass top with button type handle...and it flipped up and she fell in...not a BIG pan of it...just a 2 quart maybe half full
I do not think she stuck around long from the shock of being dumped into it...it was mostly from midwaist back, and then around her ears...but her face and neck itself are ok...so probably splashed up around her ears...or during bathing got it on her front feet and then washing her ears and face...
I just do not like to pour stuff like that down the drain, or into the garbage to take out, until garbage day, because then the outside cats will find a way to dig into the trash
I will be on the lookout for any vomits or loose stools...and I do keep regular blue dawn at home so will try that this evening
I would have liked to see how she did it...a few other nearby things on the counter were toppled....I am thinking she jumped and landed "just right" on the edge of the lid, a glass top with button type handle...and it flipped up and she fell in...not a BIG pan of it...just a 2 quart maybe half full
I do not think she stuck around long from the shock of being dumped into it...it was mostly from midwaist back, and then around her ears...but her face and neck itself are ok...so probably splashed up around her ears...or during bathing got it on her front feet and then washing her ears and face...
I just do not like to pour stuff like that down the drain, or into the garbage to take out, until garbage day, because then the outside cats will find a way to dig into the trash
I will be on the lookout for any vomits or loose stools...and I do keep regular blue dawn at home so will try that this evening
Re: Vegetable Oil?!
I was hoping you could give her bath last night, by now, she may have groomed herself and ingested quite a bit.
Not just the gastric effects to worry about, but that's a lot of fat content going into her stomach/intestines - call vet to be sure, and keep a very close eye on her (if she were a dog, this would potentially lead to a pancreatic attack if ingested too much) - you want to ask your vet about any potential liver affect (depending on how much she ingested, groomed).
For future reference, please never trust food stuffs on the counter, stove, etc, pets will do the craziest things, especially those things we would never expect them to do.
Not just the gastric effects to worry about, but that's a lot of fat content going into her stomach/intestines - call vet to be sure, and keep a very close eye on her (if she were a dog, this would potentially lead to a pancreatic attack if ingested too much) - you want to ask your vet about any potential liver affect (depending on how much she ingested, groomed).
For future reference, please never trust food stuffs on the counter, stove, etc, pets will do the craziest things, especially those things we would never expect them to do.
..........Traci
Re: Vegetable Oil?!
True....I have kept this old pan with the broken off handle for oil on the back of the counter for so long and never thought about it...I just dump it in there after cooking with it...and then it gets thrown away each trash day....Traci wrote:For future reference, please never trust food stuffs on the counter, stove, etc, pets will do the craziest things, especially those things we would never expect them to do.
Not that we USE alot of oil...but when we do, on the rare occasion, make fries, hubby likes them fried...
Re: Vegetable Oil?!
I keep my counters bare, not just for safety sake for the cats but also because of Cinnamae.
She has 'crocodile tears' syndrome which prevents her from distinguishing differences in taste. She would eat anything if I wasn't careful, so by keeping things off the counter, all the cats are safe. (food stuffs are kept in a closed pantry).
She has 'crocodile tears' syndrome which prevents her from distinguishing differences in taste. She would eat anything if I wasn't careful, so by keeping things off the counter, all the cats are safe. (food stuffs are kept in a closed pantry).
..........Traci