Hi! I’m new here and just looking for a little friendly advice. One year ago I found little kittens under my house and we waited to see if momma was around but unfortunately we found out she had passed and was under our house.
We are a strictly dog family but I couldn’t leave them and didn’t want to take them to the animal shelter as there is no, no kill shelter in our area. We decided to take them in and adopt them out. Well I fell in love and the rest is history.
About two weeks ago my little one who I’m the most attached to got really sick and we didn’t know what was happening. We took him to the vet and she said they would keep him over night to give him fluids, do blood work and xrays. I got a phone call that night at 5:30 that he was having trouble breathing and she didn’t know if he would make it. I asked her to please do what she could do to save him. We headed to the office and she told us that it would probably be best to euthanize him because he wasn’t well and it looked as if he had a stroke. I couldnt do it and asked if we could please give him the night.
Well low and behold he made it through the night and kept getting stronger. She said she didn’t know if it was a toxin he got into or that maybe he had an underlying heart condition.
He was able to go home one week later. He was doing well he was very whiny but well. Three days later he started sneezing! He then was hiding and had congestion. Back to the vet and they tell us to give him an antihistamine. We did that and it kept getting worse and then his sister got sick. She was in hospital with fluids, blood work and xrays for 3 days.
One night my boy was bleeding from the nose so we had to take him to the emergency vet and he pretty much blew off the fact that it was an URI. He said he has a grade 3 systolic heart murmur and could basically drop dead at any time!
By the way the blood from his nose was from a scratch.
Now our last kitty is getting the same thing!
My question is can a kitty almost die from an URI? Did he get this URI from the vets? Is it really possible it’s not a URI when all three kitties are sick? Is it possible he will just die on me because I don’t think I can handle it! I just don’t know what’s up and what’s down right now. I’m sorry if this is all over the place and thank you if you took the time to read it.
I have my boy going for an echocardiogram in 2 weeks but I’m so scared he won’t make it that long!