Hello,
I have found a stray kitten a mounth ago, alone with no mother and siblings. He was around 2 months old, was afraid of people, so I couldn't trap him at first. I fed him for 1 week and then he started to get used to me.
When I succeed to gain his trust and brought him to our home, to a separate room, isolated from our cats at home.
He has been with us since 3 weeks. We have found him a new home and we were planning to bring him to his new home this weekend.
Yesterday, when I entered his room to feed him and to have some play with him, I noticed that he was breathing open mouth while purring at the same time. There was nothing in the room he can swallow. I rushed him to vet. He completely breathed normal there, so they said maybe he was too excited and happy to see me, this may cause open mouth breathing.
When we got back to home he started open mouth breathing again. I checked him for 15 minutes every hour and he never breath normal. Besides he started to shake his head, squint, he began uninterested in plays, and he does not want me to touch him. I really afraid he wouldn't make it until the morning.
He still eats, drinks and uses litter box normally. Just 1 day ago he was so loving, was running to me to be petted and playful, now he does not want to petted and sites/lays in his box mostly.
I took videos and brought him to vet again this morning. He again was normal there. When I showed below videos they didn't think it is something serious. But since I insist they offered me to leave him there for monitoring and blood tests. He is at the vet now, and will stay there couple of hours.
Note: He had soft stools when I first got him, a very minor infection on one eye only. His eye is cured with antibiotic drops in 2-3 days. We dewormed him 2 times in 3 weeks. But his stools are still a bit soft. When I give him chicken breast, stool hardens but when he eats only kibble it becomes soft again.
Since he developed these problems so suddenly I am afraid it may be something serious like FIP. What do you think? Am I exaggerating or is there really something serious?
I have found a stray kitten a mounth ago, alone with no mother and siblings. He was around 2 months old, was afraid of people, so I couldn't trap him at first. I fed him for 1 week and then he started to get used to me.
When I succeed to gain his trust and brought him to our home, to a separate room, isolated from our cats at home.
He has been with us since 3 weeks. We have found him a new home and we were planning to bring him to his new home this weekend.
Yesterday, when I entered his room to feed him and to have some play with him, I noticed that he was breathing open mouth while purring at the same time. There was nothing in the room he can swallow. I rushed him to vet. He completely breathed normal there, so they said maybe he was too excited and happy to see me, this may cause open mouth breathing.
When we got back to home he started open mouth breathing again. I checked him for 15 minutes every hour and he never breath normal. Besides he started to shake his head, squint, he began uninterested in plays, and he does not want me to touch him. I really afraid he wouldn't make it until the morning.
He still eats, drinks and uses litter box normally. Just 1 day ago he was so loving, was running to me to be petted and playful, now he does not want to petted and sites/lays in his box mostly.
I took videos and brought him to vet again this morning. He again was normal there. When I showed below videos they didn't think it is something serious. But since I insist they offered me to leave him there for monitoring and blood tests. He is at the vet now, and will stay there couple of hours.
Note: He had soft stools when I first got him, a very minor infection on one eye only. His eye is cured with antibiotic drops in 2-3 days. We dewormed him 2 times in 3 weeks. But his stools are still a bit soft. When I give him chicken breast, stool hardens but when he eats only kibble it becomes soft again.
Since he developed these problems so suddenly I am afraid it may be something serious like FIP. What do you think? Am I exaggerating or is there really something serious?
