My time-bomb cat exploded last night

[jmowreader]

I wish this WAS a copycat. It's not.

On Sunday I reported that one of my cats, who came from a long line of exploding cats, scared the shit out of me when she started bleeding from the muzzle. Fortunately, she was just stupid that day, bit her tongue (she slept with it hanging out), and recovered.

Last night, the same cat was lying in my lap asleep. She woke up, gave this real strange meow, and her head dropped. Next thing you know, one of my legs is dripping in cat piss, the other is drenched in blood, and the cat in the middle is dead as a doornail. My cats Hormel and Cat with No Name* saw it and they're freaking out. We didn't have either one the last time a cat exploded, and now neither will come into this part of the room...which is bad considering this part of the room is where the windows they love to sleep in are.

* Cat with No Name is my tuxedo. I got this cat at work one day--I was coming out of the shop, saw the cat under my car, and had to pry it out of the front suspension before I could drive home. I've suggested a few names for this cat, but the missus insists that suspension parts are not proper names for cats. My wife also insists I got the cat out of the garden center--there are so many mice out there cats move in on occasion and sometimes they breed--and I claim equally stridently that "Orderpicker" and "Electric Ladder"--the two machines one might use to extract kittens from overhead racking--are not proper names for cats you didn't get out of the racking in the first place. So the cat has no name. Oh well.

[Maddy McCall]

1. Come again?

Your cat exploded?

:wow:

[Deep13]

2. Apparently, it is a reoccurring problem too.

:shrug:

[jmowreader]

6. We're out of those cats. It won't recur again.

Something in their heads just goes 'pop" and all their blood drains out of them through their muzzle. Extremely scary when you're not expecting it, and you DON'T expect it because the cat acts completely normal until it happens.

On edit: This is apparently genetic in origin. A few years back, we rescued a pregnant stray. We brought her into the house after a trip to the vet (who pronounced her healthy but very pregnant--we already figured this out, you're charging me $35 for THAT?) where she gave birth to one shorthaired orange kitten, a Manx-pattern longhaired, longtail tom, and two black longhairs, a female and a homosexual male. (Trust me on this.) The orange kitten had congenital liver problems and died after six months--he was the size of a three-month-old when he passed. The rest of his litter SEEMED fine. My wife decided to breed the Manx-looking cat to one we already had. (Results: one stillborn black kitten.) Well...he decided he liked sex SO much he'd impregnate a cat that wasn't actually in heat at the time before we caught him and got him neutered. This litter produced one Siamese-pattern longhair tom, one female that looked like the tom we KNOW we bred, and two females that looked exactly like the gay tom.

Well...about a year later the Exploding Cat shit started happening.

[Maddy McCall]

11. Oh, man.

I am so sorry. :hug:

[Richardo]

3. We had something similar happen to one of our mini schnauzers

Canine Hemmorhagic Gastro Encephalitis. It's as bad as it sounds, and is very sudden. Not sure about the occurrences in cats, but in dogs the cause is unknown.

Sorry for your loss.

[CatholicEdHead]

13. Cause is deer ticks

[ET Awful]

4. My condolences, and as to No Name, might I recommend

"Monroe" (as in strut :P).

Seriously though, I'm really sorry for your poor kitty :(. The poor thing :cry:

[Susang]

5. That is the saddest thing I've heard

I'm so sorry. :hug:

[DS1]

7. This is Spinal Cat?

[jmowreader]

10. Actually, I think you're right

One of her favorite sleeping places was on the head of my (no pun intended) floor tom.

[DS1]

12. Poor kitty

:hug:

[JVS]

8. Exploding cat? WTF? Is there a technical term?

[jmowreader]

9. I think that IS the technical term.