My poor new rescue kitty, Gryffin!! I wrote a thread about his *left* leg limping issue yesterday. But when I woke up today his *right* leg was sore. I thought that I was losing my mind. Then I took him into vet clinic in a rush before they shut today for xmas - and we suspect limping kitten syndrome, although there is one other joint thing that it could be (so will treat for that too just to be careful).
I never even heard of limping kitten syndrome. Related to a calici virus. He was quarantined when first home for 2 weeks (he has been out with my other cats now for just over a week), I've known Gryffin at the place where I got him for many months and nothing like this was evident with the other cats - they are a healthy bunch. So either it was incubating and took time to appear (??), or it came from his vaccines or I suppose it could come from a latent carrier in my resident cats. No clue. Let's just hope my mature cats don't get affected by this or if they do that it is very mild. And I hope that Gryffin gets better quickly as I want him to have a happy first xmas.
Other than some limping and joint pain on front legs, Gryffin has a mild fever (he is eating and drinking) but no other URI symptoms and he is two days into this. I've read that the sore joints should pass within a week or so.
How common is limping kitten syndrome? How come I never heard of it before? Can anyone enlighten me about this?
I'm just perplexed bit
and a bit
as I've never even heard of this before. I never would have guessed in a million years that my kitty who was running around so merrily a few days ago would have sore joints and be limping a few days later.
I never even heard of limping kitten syndrome. Related to a calici virus. He was quarantined when first home for 2 weeks (he has been out with my other cats now for just over a week), I've known Gryffin at the place where I got him for many months and nothing like this was evident with the other cats - they are a healthy bunch. So either it was incubating and took time to appear (??), or it came from his vaccines or I suppose it could come from a latent carrier in my resident cats. No clue. Let's just hope my mature cats don't get affected by this or if they do that it is very mild. And I hope that Gryffin gets better quickly as I want him to have a happy first xmas.
Other than some limping and joint pain on front legs, Gryffin has a mild fever (he is eating and drinking) but no other URI symptoms and he is two days into this. I've read that the sore joints should pass within a week or so.
How common is limping kitten syndrome? How come I never heard of it before? Can anyone enlighten me about this?
I'm just perplexed bit