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Hi all, i am new to this board and would like to share my story and welcome in any advice or opinions!
About a week ago now I ended up with a stray cat who was brought in to my job by a couple who said they found her on the side of the road, long story short they didnt know what to do with her so i took her home with me that night, we set up a room for her in our house away from our other two male cats. She was very underweight, her left eye looked terrible, she looked to have ear mites, upper respiratory infection, scabs all over, she looked like she had been through hell and back. She instantly felt right at home with us, she ate and used the liter box and sat on our laps and we loved her instantly.
The next day I brought her to the vet, i explained to them the story of how she ended up in my care. This is where my concern begins, the vets demeanor quickly changed from good to bad once she took her temperature and did a physical examination, she had a fever and slight distended abdomen, she told me right off that it doesn't look good. I must have been at the vets office for 4 hours that day, we had very little one on one talk with the vet except for her briefing us about the test results in between her other patients. She ruled out aids/leukemia after she preformed blood work, she then went on to say she believed this was possibly the dry form of FIP (up until now i knew nothing about this virus) she told us she was severely anemic with a blood count of 12! she also performed a tap on her stomach and said she found the tiniest amount of fluid. Anyway like i said we barely had much one on one with the dr that day, her advice to us was to have the cat put down (she seemed sincere and honest and not at all cold about it) she said this cat is very sick and i would only be telling you this if i really believed it, i of course cried hysterical and we thought about it for a while and decided we trusted her enough at the time to make that hard decision, minutes from signing the forms to go through with it we changed our mind and said we want to bring her home with us and let her life out her life. so we did.
She has been with us like i said for a week now and she looks great, her scabs cleared up, her hair has grown back she has such an appetite, her eye is looking better, basically she does not look nor act like a cat that is on deaths door, she is playful and loving and active. We are keeping her quarantined from our other cats still however she is chomping at the bit to get out of this room. It upsets me so much to think we almost ended this cats life when she is still so full of life! The dr never brought up any other possible diagnoses, she did not treat any other ailments we told her about, her ears were not treated, or her possible upper resp, she just immediately jumped to worst case scenario and we almost pulled the plug on her.
I guess my main concern is that she is not properly diagnosed and we are not treating her for what else she may have. We have her on 2ml of Prednisone a day, feeding her Wellness core 3x a day and have been giving her omega 3 supplements. We have been doing everything we could possibly be doing to keep her healthy, she looks 100 times better already than she did at first, i am not trying to get my hopes up, but i do believe this could be worth a second opinion. I m sorry this ended up to be longer than i had wanted but if any one has any advice they would like to hsrae please do! we are very much in love with this sweet little girl and we would do just about anything within our means for her.
About a week ago now I ended up with a stray cat who was brought in to my job by a couple who said they found her on the side of the road, long story short they didnt know what to do with her so i took her home with me that night, we set up a room for her in our house away from our other two male cats. She was very underweight, her left eye looked terrible, she looked to have ear mites, upper respiratory infection, scabs all over, she looked like she had been through hell and back. She instantly felt right at home with us, she ate and used the liter box and sat on our laps and we loved her instantly.
The next day I brought her to the vet, i explained to them the story of how she ended up in my care. This is where my concern begins, the vets demeanor quickly changed from good to bad once she took her temperature and did a physical examination, she had a fever and slight distended abdomen, she told me right off that it doesn't look good. I must have been at the vets office for 4 hours that day, we had very little one on one talk with the vet except for her briefing us about the test results in between her other patients. She ruled out aids/leukemia after she preformed blood work, she then went on to say she believed this was possibly the dry form of FIP (up until now i knew nothing about this virus) she told us she was severely anemic with a blood count of 12! she also performed a tap on her stomach and said she found the tiniest amount of fluid. Anyway like i said we barely had much one on one with the dr that day, her advice to us was to have the cat put down (she seemed sincere and honest and not at all cold about it) she said this cat is very sick and i would only be telling you this if i really believed it, i of course cried hysterical and we thought about it for a while and decided we trusted her enough at the time to make that hard decision, minutes from signing the forms to go through with it we changed our mind and said we want to bring her home with us and let her life out her life. so we did.
She has been with us like i said for a week now and she looks great, her scabs cleared up, her hair has grown back she has such an appetite, her eye is looking better, basically she does not look nor act like a cat that is on deaths door, she is playful and loving and active. We are keeping her quarantined from our other cats still however she is chomping at the bit to get out of this room. It upsets me so much to think we almost ended this cats life when she is still so full of life! The dr never brought up any other possible diagnoses, she did not treat any other ailments we told her about, her ears were not treated, or her possible upper resp, she just immediately jumped to worst case scenario and we almost pulled the plug on her.
I guess my main concern is that she is not properly diagnosed and we are not treating her for what else she may have. We have her on 2ml of Prednisone a day, feeding her Wellness core 3x a day and have been giving her omega 3 supplements. We have been doing everything we could possibly be doing to keep her healthy, she looks 100 times better already than she did at first, i am not trying to get my hopes up, but i do believe this could be worth a second opinion. I m sorry this ended up to be longer than i had wanted but if any one has any advice they would like to hsrae please do! we are very much in love with this sweet little girl and we would do just about anything within our means for her.