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I have a year old kitten who used to be feral but has become very loving and attentive to me if not other members of the family. A few weeks ago she became very ill, thin and withdrawn, and refused to come when I called her for breakfast in the morning. She seemed to rally after I gave her roundworm medicine a week ago and was back to eating five times a day (I indulged her because there were days she wouldn't eat) and now we're back to the same behavior. Hides, sleeps in full sunlight when it's 90 degrees in the shade (me and my mother looked for her for hours before we found her--she's not very vocal and she still scares easily) and she ran into our woods. I left water but she refuses to let me touch her. I can see both third eyelids. We gave her some tapeworm medicine we got over the counter about a week ago and she threw it up although it didn't seem to hurt her, as she started eating voraciously after that until yesterday when she came to breakfast but wouldn't let me hold her like usual. I didn't see her the rest of the day or this morning until my mom went looking and found her on our deck. I went outside to call her off the deck and she ran pausing to look at me before disappearing for five hours.
I don't know what's wrong. My vet is cut rate. I go to him as a last resort since he really doesn't seem to care about my animals except for a paycheck and because we are two ladies on social security and don't have all the money in the world. I would like to know if someone knows what this is? She's getting thinner despite the meals she was eating and I don't know what to do. Like I said, she was a formerly feral kitten that I tamed by hand and there is no question of her coming inside since it scares her badly and she is claustrophobic. That's another reason I'd like to avoid the vet.
We never find her feces anywhere. She's very meticulous about that but my mom accidentally came across some in the garden yesterday that didn't seem to have worms or be diarrhea. If that helps. I could have sworn I saw a small maggot come out of her anus a few weeks ago but that might have been fear. Since then, nothing else.
Could someone help me understand what's happening to my baby? Like I said, the vet is a definite possibility but with her fear of places, indoors, and people I don't know. I can't even get around her. This is all so very sad and so very hopeless.
C.
I don't know what's wrong. My vet is cut rate. I go to him as a last resort since he really doesn't seem to care about my animals except for a paycheck and because we are two ladies on social security and don't have all the money in the world. I would like to know if someone knows what this is? She's getting thinner despite the meals she was eating and I don't know what to do. Like I said, she was a formerly feral kitten that I tamed by hand and there is no question of her coming inside since it scares her badly and she is claustrophobic. That's another reason I'd like to avoid the vet.
We never find her feces anywhere. She's very meticulous about that but my mom accidentally came across some in the garden yesterday that didn't seem to have worms or be diarrhea. If that helps. I could have sworn I saw a small maggot come out of her anus a few weeks ago but that might have been fear. Since then, nothing else.
Could someone help me understand what's happening to my baby? Like I said, the vet is a definite possibility but with her fear of places, indoors, and people I don't know. I can't even get around her. This is all so very sad and so very hopeless.
C.