Hi all,
I am new here nice to meet you all.
Ill try to be specific.
Caramel, met her in garden, adopted as balcony-garden cat. She was sneezing excreting yellow stuff from her nose. Had 7 kittens from, 2 born dead, 4 healthy (all adopted) and the love of my life Big Head.
Months after birth Caramel became very thin but she re-cooped and now is my fat healthy girl (she also sleeps on couch with me from time to time).
Anyway Big Head was the runt of the litter. He was thrown out of Caramel's hut when feeding etc. I realized was not a mistake. Even months after she will caress and clean her daughter and attack BH.
The whole building loved BH, we made him a villa in the back of the garden, he got into his routine. He lived with 3 other stray babies i saved. All the other strays were growing and looked healthy...he didn't.
Born 1st April 2015 he had some off days in the summer where we took him to a small vet (not much machinery around) and she gave him antibacterial shots and anti fever shots. She always wanted to see him every 3 days per episode for 3 times. I estimate we went to her and she did this same thing 8 times. He did start eating after the shots.
Then we stopped taking him he ate more than my big cat psu. He always ate non stop and begged for food non stop. He played and run around in our lovely garden.
Then he stopped playing much, in the mornings he still climbed one set of stairs and miowed his screechy weird miow to be let in. All his days were spend inside and his nights sleeping in his villa as we called it.
If he didn't come up because the communal door was closed he always waited where the sun hit, always.
He continued to eat like mad, like i have never seen this he ate everyone's food then followed me around for more. All day he ate.
Some days we noticed from above his belly was like he swallowed a tennis ball, some times only on one side. I forgot to add the vet said his breathing is a bit laboured i could see his abdomen moving not like normal cats.
He still did not grow. We reached the 5 month mark and he weighed an unbelievable (from what i read online 2 pounds). September we take him to a clinic as he does not play much, he either sits still or sleeps a lot, he slept a lot on me or on his matt at my neighbour's house. He only got up when someone went into the kitchen and followed and screeched for food.
Clinic time.
Doc does blood test and an x ray. Says he has air in his stomach his breathing is ok but ok ish does some shots and tell us to go back next week for other results. We go and he says it is FIP.
I don't even read up (yeah i know) and my neighbour goes to the UK (end of september). My smart boy comes up every morning finds my door spends the day and at night goes to his villa to snuggle with his friends (who are now 5 times bigger than him). He basically sleeps on me all day but will also come back to watch me do laundry, or just sits on his pillow mostly sleeping. He eats like a piggy.
He started peeing inside my flat i cleaned. He loved sleeping next to a heater even though it was not cold. I forgot to add he stank a lot and never groomed himself i found a tick on him (i always followed procedure clean, stronghold etc).
This Monday (3 days ago) as per usual he comes up 8am i let him in all well, eats sleeps rests. I take him down Monday night (he would never ever ever stray from his procedure, back garden his villa, wait in communal door ALWAYS stays in property he is the mascot). Generally he is fine as alwaus but for some time now when he jumps the ledge he does not go over he kind of grabs the top with front legs and pulls himself up so his hind legs were a bit weaker probably.
Tuesday am no BH. I go down to feed nowhere in sight. I can't stop crying, Caramel and one stray keep coming to my balcony and i am trying to make them all stay down in their beautiful houses but they come. BH can't cause he can't reach he came indoor as stated earlier. I will NEVER forgive myself for letting him downstairs but that was our system everyone loved them lovely houses lovely food snacks during day playing etc.
I start researching online and realise can't be FIP cause he would be so bad he wouldn't eat etc. I speak to a vet in america and explain he is certain not FIP and he says the photos are normal show a small cat but that his weight is low (at 7 months and 15 days he still hadn't grown from 5 months he was still 2 pounds). 2 pounds at 7 and a half months.
3 days we have been tearing apart the building and garden he is nowhere to be seen he has never ever done this 7 months. He is realiable on us he is not self dependent he never leaves the garden.
I called the vet that use to do the antibacterial and anti fever shots she said she agrees doesn't look like FIP and that he would not die like that when the night before he was eating acting normal. The american dr agreed but suspects heart disease (he called it something).
He is nowhere, he can't have hidden so well he never hid even when he had vomiting episodes month back and did not eat. I don't know what to believe tom i have a vet appointment ill get BH test results and grill him.
I moved from the UK to Greece 1 year ago so many strays i spend most of my day feeding strays taking them to the vest, adopting is pend so much money yet i feel like i let my BH down. I do all this yet i did not put him in the balcony house as Caramel her daughter Uber and others come and sleep in the houses there. He loved his villa i checked sometimes 3am he was there snuggled in his many blankets.
I am 39 and i have been crying like a kid so shameful. I have been looking 10 hours a day am exhausted.
Sorry about the long post guys nice to meet you
bless u all
I am new here nice to meet you all.
Ill try to be specific.
Caramel, met her in garden, adopted as balcony-garden cat. She was sneezing excreting yellow stuff from her nose. Had 7 kittens from, 2 born dead, 4 healthy (all adopted) and the love of my life Big Head.
Months after birth Caramel became very thin but she re-cooped and now is my fat healthy girl (she also sleeps on couch with me from time to time).
Anyway Big Head was the runt of the litter. He was thrown out of Caramel's hut when feeding etc. I realized was not a mistake. Even months after she will caress and clean her daughter and attack BH.
The whole building loved BH, we made him a villa in the back of the garden, he got into his routine. He lived with 3 other stray babies i saved. All the other strays were growing and looked healthy...he didn't.
Born 1st April 2015 he had some off days in the summer where we took him to a small vet (not much machinery around) and she gave him antibacterial shots and anti fever shots. She always wanted to see him every 3 days per episode for 3 times. I estimate we went to her and she did this same thing 8 times. He did start eating after the shots.
Then we stopped taking him he ate more than my big cat psu. He always ate non stop and begged for food non stop. He played and run around in our lovely garden.
Then he stopped playing much, in the mornings he still climbed one set of stairs and miowed his screechy weird miow to be let in. All his days were spend inside and his nights sleeping in his villa as we called it.
If he didn't come up because the communal door was closed he always waited where the sun hit, always.
He continued to eat like mad, like i have never seen this he ate everyone's food then followed me around for more. All day he ate.
Some days we noticed from above his belly was like he swallowed a tennis ball, some times only on one side. I forgot to add the vet said his breathing is a bit laboured i could see his abdomen moving not like normal cats.
He still did not grow. We reached the 5 month mark and he weighed an unbelievable (from what i read online 2 pounds). September we take him to a clinic as he does not play much, he either sits still or sleeps a lot, he slept a lot on me or on his matt at my neighbour's house. He only got up when someone went into the kitchen and followed and screeched for food.
Clinic time.
Doc does blood test and an x ray. Says he has air in his stomach his breathing is ok but ok ish does some shots and tell us to go back next week for other results. We go and he says it is FIP.
I don't even read up (yeah i know) and my neighbour goes to the UK (end of september). My smart boy comes up every morning finds my door spends the day and at night goes to his villa to snuggle with his friends (who are now 5 times bigger than him). He basically sleeps on me all day but will also come back to watch me do laundry, or just sits on his pillow mostly sleeping. He eats like a piggy.
He started peeing inside my flat i cleaned. He loved sleeping next to a heater even though it was not cold. I forgot to add he stank a lot and never groomed himself i found a tick on him (i always followed procedure clean, stronghold etc).
This Monday (3 days ago) as per usual he comes up 8am i let him in all well, eats sleeps rests. I take him down Monday night (he would never ever ever stray from his procedure, back garden his villa, wait in communal door ALWAYS stays in property he is the mascot). Generally he is fine as alwaus but for some time now when he jumps the ledge he does not go over he kind of grabs the top with front legs and pulls himself up so his hind legs were a bit weaker probably.
Tuesday am no BH. I go down to feed nowhere in sight. I can't stop crying, Caramel and one stray keep coming to my balcony and i am trying to make them all stay down in their beautiful houses but they come. BH can't cause he can't reach he came indoor as stated earlier. I will NEVER forgive myself for letting him downstairs but that was our system everyone loved them lovely houses lovely food snacks during day playing etc.
I start researching online and realise can't be FIP cause he would be so bad he wouldn't eat etc. I speak to a vet in america and explain he is certain not FIP and he says the photos are normal show a small cat but that his weight is low (at 7 months and 15 days he still hadn't grown from 5 months he was still 2 pounds). 2 pounds at 7 and a half months.
3 days we have been tearing apart the building and garden he is nowhere to be seen he has never ever done this 7 months. He is realiable on us he is not self dependent he never leaves the garden.
I called the vet that use to do the antibacterial and anti fever shots she said she agrees doesn't look like FIP and that he would not die like that when the night before he was eating acting normal. The american dr agreed but suspects heart disease (he called it something).
He is nowhere, he can't have hidden so well he never hid even when he had vomiting episodes month back and did not eat. I don't know what to believe tom i have a vet appointment ill get BH test results and grill him.
I moved from the UK to Greece 1 year ago so many strays i spend most of my day feeding strays taking them to the vest, adopting is pend so much money yet i feel like i let my BH down. I do all this yet i did not put him in the balcony house as Caramel her daughter Uber and others come and sleep in the houses there. He loved his villa i checked sometimes 3am he was there snuggled in his many blankets.
I am 39 and i have been crying like a kid so shameful. I have been looking 10 hours a day am exhausted.
Sorry about the long post guys nice to meet you
bless u all