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Hello,
Before I begin I just want to say that this was my first time buying a cat. I only have kept birds and fishes before as pet.
So, I recently bought a 5 weeks old persian kitten and the shop owner told me he is healthy and perfect. In the shop, he was running around and playing with other cats so seemed really active and I decided to buy it. After I brought it home, he ran around for a while and then went to sleep in his house (i bought a cat house before). At the feeding time told by the shop owner, I gave him boiled chicken with water as told by the shop owner, and the kitten seemed to enjoy it. But since last two days, he was really lazy and sleeping all day, whenever he wakes up just drinks water and uses the litter, then back to sleep again. Does not even eat the anything.
So seeing this, I got scared and took him to a vet, he told me that the kitten has ear mites and diarrhea because of eating chicken as it was a high protien food. So he told me to manually give the kitten two medicines for 5 days (one is for ear mites and the other is for diarrhea). The vet also told me to purchase cat food of royal canin mother & baby.
I came home and was relieved to see that kitten ate some of the cat food but again he went back to sleep. I gave him both of the medicines as told by the vet and he is sleeping since then just woke up once to use the litter.
I am really worried that he might be so sick even die
Please help me and tell me what to do.
Before I begin I just want to say that this was my first time buying a cat. I only have kept birds and fishes before as pet.
So, I recently bought a 5 weeks old persian kitten and the shop owner told me he is healthy and perfect. In the shop, he was running around and playing with other cats so seemed really active and I decided to buy it. After I brought it home, he ran around for a while and then went to sleep in his house (i bought a cat house before). At the feeding time told by the shop owner, I gave him boiled chicken with water as told by the shop owner, and the kitten seemed to enjoy it. But since last two days, he was really lazy and sleeping all day, whenever he wakes up just drinks water and uses the litter, then back to sleep again. Does not even eat the anything.
So seeing this, I got scared and took him to a vet, he told me that the kitten has ear mites and diarrhea because of eating chicken as it was a high protien food. So he told me to manually give the kitten two medicines for 5 days (one is for ear mites and the other is for diarrhea). The vet also told me to purchase cat food of royal canin mother & baby.
I came home and was relieved to see that kitten ate some of the cat food but again he went back to sleep. I gave him both of the medicines as told by the vet and he is sleeping since then just woke up once to use the litter.
I am really worried that he might be so sick even die
Please help me and tell me what to do.