Hi Everyone!
I am a relatively new poster so bear with me because this is going to be kind of long!
On Friday night my friend Anna was at her parents house and her parents commented on a cat they had seen lurking around the house that day. Upon inspection my friend found the cat to be completely emaciated and rather unresponsive. She tried to feed her and give her water but the cat refused. The cat just kind of stood/crouched and looked extremely weak, almost on the verge of collapse. Anna took the cat to the emergency vet friday night and the vet said that the cat was unspayed, about a year old, and dehydrated and starving but otherwise everything appeared ok. He said to feed the cat using a dropper if we could. He said to take the cat to her regular vet during normal hours which anna is doing tomorrow. we were able to feed the cat friday night, baby food, using the medicine dropper.
I went over friday night to see the cat (being the cat lover i am!) and have been over there to visit every day since. The cat now is eating wet food on her own (VERY hungry kitty) but has not used the litter. she also never seems to lay down. she kind of falls asleep on her feet, standing very still, closing her eyes, and swaying back and forth until she stumbles and catches herself. she seems very unsteady also, she will shake herself off and kind of splay out her legs as though she is going to fall over. She is very friendly, will weakly nuzzle us purring.
Any ideas what is going on with her?
Thanks!!!!!!!!
I am a relatively new poster so bear with me because this is going to be kind of long!
On Friday night my friend Anna was at her parents house and her parents commented on a cat they had seen lurking around the house that day. Upon inspection my friend found the cat to be completely emaciated and rather unresponsive. She tried to feed her and give her water but the cat refused. The cat just kind of stood/crouched and looked extremely weak, almost on the verge of collapse. Anna took the cat to the emergency vet friday night and the vet said that the cat was unspayed, about a year old, and dehydrated and starving but otherwise everything appeared ok. He said to feed the cat using a dropper if we could. He said to take the cat to her regular vet during normal hours which anna is doing tomorrow. we were able to feed the cat friday night, baby food, using the medicine dropper.
I went over friday night to see the cat (being the cat lover i am!) and have been over there to visit every day since. The cat now is eating wet food on her own (VERY hungry kitty) but has not used the litter. she also never seems to lay down. she kind of falls asleep on her feet, standing very still, closing her eyes, and swaying back and forth until she stumbles and catches herself. she seems very unsteady also, she will shake herself off and kind of splay out her legs as though she is going to fall over. She is very friendly, will weakly nuzzle us purring.
Any ideas what is going on with her?
Thanks!!!!!!!!