Hello all, joined this forum so I’d have a place to obsess about my cats (three) and not annoy my Facebook friends further.
I have three cats: a 6 yr old (TC, ginger tabby), a 3 month old (Bruno, grey & white tabby) & a 40 day old (Agni, all black.) We live in New Delhi, India with access to pet food (mostly Whiskas & Pedigree) and vets. Now, Bruno was from a litter with a cared for mother cat, but Agni who we got only a few weeks later, was from the shelter. In the beginning, everything was kinda awesome. The kittens would jump and run around and play, and leave my older cat alone (which was why we got the second one in the first place.)
Then, Agni fell sick. Lots of diarrhoea, very weak, high temperature. She hadn’t been vaccinated yet, because we had just dewormed her. We had to rush her to the local shelter open late at night where she got a saline drip to bring her temperature down and a dose of drugs (called Monocef here, not sure what the generic name is.) A few days later, Bruno fell sick, and we gave him the same drugs. Agni got better, Bruno got worse. Agni got worse, Bruno got better. So on & so forth, UNTIL two days ago. Both kittens have stopped eating to the extent that they’ve lost all the weight I was so happy to see they had put on. They’re drinking water, but in small amounts.
We went back to the vet today who suggested we try force feeding before he gave us an appetite stimulator (so that the kittens don’t get hooked to it), but poor little Agni seems to be fading away. She’s very limp when you pick her up, sits in one place flopped over barely breathing, and even lost control of her bowels on a sofa, instead of going to the litter box. We’re still feeding her (chicken broth, soaking dry kitten food in water and squeezing it into her mouth with a syringe) and giving her some probiotics, but I’m not sure she’s going to make the weekend. Bruno, being bigger, and more healthy is slightly better, but also very lethargic.
I miss my active little kittens. It’s so sad to think that I might be going from my newly three cat house to a one cat house again. Has anyone been through this? Do they pull through? How long does it take to see results? And could this be a direct reaction to the antibiotics? (FWIW, Agni’s last shot was 4 days ago, and Bruno’s was 3.)
Thank you all, for your help and support. 🙂 I look forward to being an active participant with tales of THREE cats. *sigh*