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I agree with @Furballsmom (as usual :)). You are making progress - - - it may not feel like much, but progress with ferals - especially past a few months, is usually slower. And you're in a rough spot of only having an hour or two a day with them, plus having them in a shelter with all that...

Thanks so much - - - I didn't think we could get more nervous, but we are. His abdomen just won't go down - - and we're now a little over 3 weeks into the treatment, with the past week being a doubled dose. And do hear periodically about someone having a wet FIP cat in treatment that takes 4-5...

Bowie STILL doesn’t seem to be any fluid reduction….SO hard not to get discouraged thx so much for the links.I’d read the links on the Cornell Vet Sciences (I do so much Shelter work I subscribe to their nl to help me try to keep current on things) — but it’s a great site! And Bowie’s already...

Thanks for the well wishes - I’ll pass them along to Bowie!

I'm so sorry about your first 2. It is absolutely CRAZY expensive. Pills are $8 each, and he gets 3 a day. Plus throw in the bloodwork, etc. and it's almost an "eat or treat the cat" - - we've obviously gone with treating Bowie. And right behind Bowie we have our other, Flick, with...

So no diminishing of Bowie's fluid yet - if anything he seems to look bigger! My hubby swears no - but it's certainly not diminishing. Keep thinking "today's the day!" but it isn't. Unfortunately Bowie got wise to the pill trick we were using that had worked SO well for days - and last night...

I desperately wish they'd approve these drugs in the US - but yes, we're going thru the only option we have in the US which is the FB group (now there are two - one of which is an offshoot started by the woman whose cat Luna was the first cat Dr. Pederson studied that survived - and Luna's still...

I'm SO sorry to hear about your Byron. We had one of our sweeties years ago die due to vet mishandling - - - even worse, we'd left her with them to run a few tests and were to come get her in a few hours. When we got back, she'd died due to their bungling a procedure, and when I was extremely...

Thanks for both your messages. It is so unusual for an adult - particularly a senior - to get it - I researched and found only about 2% of adult cats get it. Guess some kitties have to make up the 2% and Bowie's part of the club no one wants to belong to. He did two weeks on the shots on the...

You've always been such a kind touchstone for me through the years - hearing you're out there thinking of him means alot. It's really rough - -but the support of the people here (esp treasured advice-givers like you!) help. It's SO easy to get discouraged. Isn't it amazing how much older he...

Vets here can't actually prescribe it so it's all done in a "hush hush Sopranos" sort of way, so we have to kind of talk "in code" with her, but she's very supportive of what we're doing. I knew about the FB Warriors group bc one of our fosters broke with it after being in his new home for just...

Thanks for the support. I hadn't seen it in adults either. So I was reading statistics - at shelters I've been with I'd only seen it in kittens too. Most kittens/cats carry the virus in latent form all their lives, but only about 2-5% of adult cats break with it (usually seniors - and Bowie's 15...

Wanted to post a pic of Bowie’s back (we had to submit an overhead shot to the FB group — altho his saddlebags hadn’t reached their full saddlebag-ness yet)….and wanted all to see the sweet heart he has on his back! (He’s not just a pretty face 😸)

He is negative for FeLV…one good thing! And yes - we got him on Remdesivir right away. It helped stop all other issues except the fluid — if you didn’t see his “saddlebags” you’d never know he was ill! Hopefully the newly-increased dosage helps soon — we’re getting to be very nervous kitty parents!

Our vet did an ultrasound, in an effort to make sure it wasn’t heart failure, a mass/tumor/etc. His belly (not to mention the analysis of the fluid taken to test) is classic Wet FIP —- I’d just never seen an adult (& a senior at that!) w/wet FIP. We’ll definitely have to explore other options if...

Thanks for the kind words & thoughts—-we’ll take all of them we can get! Luckily his resting respiration’s still excellent, & he doesn’t seem to be in pain - altho not sure how he’s not, given his big fluid “saddlebags.” Fingers crossed the new med dosage starts the fluid dissipation — but it’s...

Meant to put your name in my reply to the member below. We do belong to the FB group - they keep saying don't panic yet, and then doubled his dose. Still scary!!!!!

Neither the FIP group I belong to (a group no one ever hopes to belong to!) nor our vet wanted to drain any as it's in his abdomen, not his chest, and his respiratory rate is well below a rate of concern. It'll just fill back up so quickly from what I understand - and it can lead to shock...

We are - they're who's helping us through this (and thanks for mentioning them - so few people - and vets - believe this is even a possibitilty - an almost cost-prohibitive one for us, but we'll live in a cardboard box if it'll fix Bowie!). They're an amazing group. Wish this stuff could get...

Of course you see them constantly UNTIL you put the trap(s) out - - never fails! :argh:Just keep watching - sure they'll appear when least expected! And as @Norachan noted too - - - fixing ANY kitties helps them all!