Hi there, I'm pretty new here, and eager for advice on all the health problems we've been experiencing in our four-cat household since adopting two feral kittens in the past month.
Any thoughts on whether a vaporizer or a warm-mist humidifier would be better for treating a URI in my 3-1/2-month-old kitten, Possum? Are there models you like? I need to buy something in the morning. Tonight we're trying a steamy bathroom, a wet sponge on the nose, and breathing steam from my condensation dryer.
Possum is having a tough time with his stuffy nose. He went from losing his voice to sniffling and sneezing, and recently to gagging and pawing his nose. The vet is finally starting him on antibiotics and lysine gel.
We think he brought the virus with him from his feral foster home. He may have given it to my 14-year old Persian, too. Snalbert's throat is inflamed and he lost his voice and he was a constant talker. We've been giving him pain-med injections twice a day for about 10 days. He's finally starting on lysine and antibiotics, too. He's been having trouble swallowing so I've been feeding him all-meat baby food on a tiny spoon. He refuses just about everything else, although he's purring and interested in luring me to the kitchen to try things. Today he even started regurgitating baby food, painful to watch. Fingers crossed that the antibiotics do the trick and that it's nothing worse than a virus....
I'm going to make him (onion-free) chicken broth tomorrow. Any other suggestions for caring for my two invalids will be warmly welcomed. Thanks!
Any thoughts on whether a vaporizer or a warm-mist humidifier would be better for treating a URI in my 3-1/2-month-old kitten, Possum? Are there models you like? I need to buy something in the morning. Tonight we're trying a steamy bathroom, a wet sponge on the nose, and breathing steam from my condensation dryer.
Possum is having a tough time with his stuffy nose. He went from losing his voice to sniffling and sneezing, and recently to gagging and pawing his nose. The vet is finally starting him on antibiotics and lysine gel.
We think he brought the virus with him from his feral foster home. He may have given it to my 14-year old Persian, too. Snalbert's throat is inflamed and he lost his voice and he was a constant talker. We've been giving him pain-med injections twice a day for about 10 days. He's finally starting on lysine and antibiotics, too. He's been having trouble swallowing so I've been feeding him all-meat baby food on a tiny spoon. He refuses just about everything else, although he's purring and interested in luring me to the kitchen to try things. Today he even started regurgitating baby food, painful to watch. Fingers crossed that the antibiotics do the trick and that it's nothing worse than a virus....
I'm going to make him (onion-free) chicken broth tomorrow. Any other suggestions for caring for my two invalids will be warmly welcomed. Thanks!