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My 8 year old neutered male cat, Axl, that we rescued when he was an abandoned kitten has something wrong. Early this morning he sneezed several times in a row and then he ran off to another room. Several hours later I heard the loudest, most odd coughing/gagging sound. I actually thought it was a human (which freaked me out because no one should’ve been in that part of the house). But then Axl came running into my room with a ton of drool falling out of his mouth and gagging like he was going to throw up or pass a hairball. But no matter how much he gagged, nothing came out. He hopped up onto my lap and seemed to calm down but then a few mins later he was gagging again. After several instances of this, he managed to throw up a small amount of white foam. I noticed after that, that his left nostril and his left eye seemed to have clear liquid that was coming out. He came and laid down and took a nap. He was letting me pet him like normal and responding the way he typically would to being pet. He seemed to be feeling better, and he no longer had the clear liquid running out of his nose or eye, but less than an hour later he woke up and started doing little gagging movements with his mouth and then he began to full on gag again. He’s been doing this on and off all day. He hasn’t had the running nose or eye problem since then, but if he’s awake, he’s gagging on and off constantly. I tried to get him to eat some wet food (which he LOVES) and while he sniffed it and seemed to really want it, he refused to actually eat it. Eventually he began licking around it, and seemed to take a couple VERY SMALL nibbles of it, but then he walked away. I tried giving him different kinds, and offering gravy but he wasn’t interested. Maybe 15-20 mins or so after he took a few nibbles of the food, he began to gag, and he gagged up clear liquid and white foam. His breathing rate is normal. I can’t tell if he has blue gums because his gums are naturally black. Right before he tried to eat, we went outside and he even began to chase a flower that went floating by (that was when he was ignoring the wet food that I had set down beside him). He’s not lethargic or anything but he keeps gagging. At one point he seemed to be sneezing and gagging. His brother (who we also rescued 8 years ago) had some sort of cold he’s getting over but he never did any gagging, just a fair amount of sneezing and it’s pretty much gone now. Axl does have asthma and allergies that greatly affect him during the late Spring - thru Summer and even into the very early Fall but they haven’t started yet (it seems to start when it gets really hot and muggy). That being said, the last couple days have been so bad for my whole family’s allergies. They’re hitting hard, so I don’t know if this could be related to his seasonal allergies. His vet doesn’t have any sort of way to reach them during after hours and my husband was recently put on disability (due to end stage COPD and Congestive Heart Failure) which really hurt us financially because I HAVE to stay home to care for our youngest who is SEVERELY mentally and physically disabled. So right now I don’t have the funds to take him to an emergency vet (I don’t have the money to take him to a regular vet until the 1st either). Before you get upset that I have a cat and I don’t have the resources for a vet- I DO understand the concern, but when we rescued our cats, we were their only hope (all the Cat Rescues were full, and no one else was willing to take them in because they needed around the clock bottle feeding) plus my husband was able to work at the time and our life was very different financially than it is now. Back then we never saw the day coming that my husband, while still in his early 40s, would have end stage COPD and heart failure and be told he cannot work. I HAVE to help my little Axl. I’m freaking out, but I don’t know what to do.
Has anyone experienced anything similar with their kitty? Any ideas on what it could be? Any ideas on what I could do for him?
Has anyone experienced anything similar with their kitty? Any ideas on what it could be? Any ideas on what I could do for him?