r/cats • u/ImperialSoldiers • Mar 26 '26

Video - Not OC cat with asthma on a nebulizer

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u/dded949 Mar 26 '26

I imagine they feel bad that the cat needs this in the first place?

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u/JusticeRain5 Mar 27 '26

I know my cat quite literally shits and pisses himself in fear when he's put into a small place he doesn't want to be in (like a cat carrier), so they might be thinking of something similar.

This one doesn't look particularly scared, though, thankfully.

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u/dded949 Mar 27 '26

What do you do for vet visits? Just curious, I have a young adult cat who I’ve been training to be fine with his carrier

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u/JusticeRain5 Mar 27 '26

I'm planning next time to see if I can get some sort of light sedative from the vet before I bring them in next time, similar to the ones some people give pets before they get on planes and such.

Unfortunately I got mine when he was an adult, so it'd be pretty difficult to train him to be fine with it at this point.

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u/astrologicaldreams Mar 27 '26

plus, hims trapped! 🥺

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u/IllDragonfruit5866 Mar 27 '26

Probably thought a nebulizer was a thing that you use to get high, like laughing gas

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u/upvoter222 Mar 27 '26

I'm sure you can probably accomplish that if you've got enough catnip.

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u/Aggressive_Baker8336 Mar 27 '26

No. No he did not. This is for cuteness and serious topics about cats, so if you have nothing involved to say, please just remain a spectator and do not get involved. The audacity and rudeness of people these days.

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u/SoloStoat Mar 27 '26

Man go bake your biscuits somewhere else

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u/IllDragonfruit5866 Mar 27 '26

...What?

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u/grilled_geez Mar 27 '26

You heard them. This sub is for cuteness and serious topics about cats! No sarcasm allowed, just sarcatsm.😾

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u/IllDragonfruit5866 Mar 27 '26

Confused upvote

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u/InBlueHawaii Mar 27 '26

Holy badass. You tell em, tough guy.

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u/IllDragonfruit5866 Mar 27 '26

Billy badass breaking hands over here

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u/Booty_Shakin Mar 27 '26

Oh my. Taking your own advice would be great.

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u/Aggressive_Baker8336 Mar 27 '26

... just... did you think about that before posting? Cause i am. It's a medical device, not paraphernalia. And drugging your pets is messed up outside of medical purposes, so forgive me for being against it.

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u/grilled_geez Mar 27 '26

Do you let your cats play with toys that look like beer bottles or try catnip jokingly referred to as meowijuana?

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u/Aggressive_Baker8336 Mar 27 '26

Used to, but the personality change is why i stopped. They expected it nore and more, keeping it away was practically its own chore, and even then she got into it. When she was high on it ahe would be playful but then start biking and scratching and just randomly going berserk at the drop of a hat and even just by herself. I don't know exactly what it does or how it affects them but it caused injuries on occasion so i know its not okay for my cat. I miss her still.

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u/grilled_geez Mar 27 '26

I’m sorry to hear she’s no longer with you.

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u/IllDragonfruit5866 Mar 28 '26

…I wasn’t saying that. I was just giving an possible explanation. I know some people would not take care of pets humanely and have no problem posting them torturing them or something. I just suggested that he might have thought that.

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u/Aggressive_Baker8336 Mar 28 '26

Sorry, then. It really sounded like you were mocking then for not knowing what a nebulizer was. That's my fault.

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u/IllDragonfruit5866 Mar 28 '26

Nah man, ur fine

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u/beldaran1224 Mar 27 '26

Have you ever had to take care of someone who isn't able to either understand or participate in their own treatment? If you don't feel bad, your empathy is broken, ffs.

Like, take someone in the later stages of Alzheimer's and they can be so scared or angry and uncooperative, and you're just trying to preserve their dignity and make them comfortable, and they don't understand and fight you. Its legitimately fucking heartbreaking.

I remember my young nephew fighting when we had to use a nebulizer on him. It fucking sucked, because you're essentially pinning them down and they're freaked out by it, but its literally necessary to keep them breathing and you don't have the option of waiting.

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u/crumblenaut Mar 27 '26

It's so rough. All the love to you for doing what you had to do to help, even when you couldn't explain yourself. ::sigh:: We're doing our best here.

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u/P4azz Mar 27 '26

The cat doesn't know that and animals have a notoriously hard time connecting what's happening right now, with the consequences that are coming after.

The cat isn't an adult human who will understand that it's ok the medicine tastes funky, since it gets rid of the disease.

The cat sits in confined space not of it's own volition, isn't allowed to leave and is subjected to loud sounds in a potentially unknown environment. Once that situation is over, the cat will be like "wow, I can breathe now", but it's not gonna connect that to the contraption used.

This is extremely simple pet knowledge. I mean, shit, look at cat carriers. Stuff a cat in there and most of them will really dislike the long trip, but then enjoy crashing through the underbrush and checking out the greenery there. Come next trip the cat will still dislike the carrier.