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I do wonder though, how long did it take for him to recover? Or is he taking the supplements to this day?At the time with kitten energy, (and neutered) he took a couple of small 2-3 hour naps, 5 hours at night if we were lucky. The rest of the time he was running and moving and playing. One of those cats who if we played more, he had more energy.
I understand you are attempting to find the difference between your cat and Magnus at this time, and that's not a bad thing to do. But please know that I commented because I saw similarities in activity level, combined with panting. I, too, thought it was just to do with how hard he played.
He was at the vet for another purpose (food allergy) when it was diagnosed. They originally looked for heart failure after finding out he panted. They kept him at the vets office for a half day, so see if he would calm down enough to listen, and the vet asked another internal vet to listen as well. They stated it was "faint" and that she would have classified it as a ".5" if that was an option. (It isn't, so it was a 1) His bloodwork came back fine, so they didn't recommend an echocardiogram. He had no parasites, we had to supervise for overheating and attempt to keep his play sessions smaller and lighter. He was allowed catnip.
It was a VERY stressful time for us. We were still mourning our late cat, whom I had given home hospice care to for 9 months, up every 2 hours with her. Magnus was a "perfectly healthy cat" that we adopted to help our little family cope. Because of this, I'm sorry but I didn't retain the amount of information I normally would. The vet retains all information about his diet, etc and I entrusted his care to their team fully. We followed all recommendations, and any notes I made in-between visits were scanned and kept on his file, not returned to me (no humans inside due to COVID).
I remember both bloodworks came back in normal values, including the extended bloodwork. "Beautiful" was the term usedIt was a lot of relief for both us and the staff at the clinic who had watched him grow up. He was there almost monthly from 5 months to 18 months as there were some extra vaccines that weren't part of his adoptive package that we wanted, and then some food allergies once we moved him to a new food (which was hard to diagnose) and then the heart murmur. His 1 year vaccines were also delayed by vet recommendations due to the murmur.
I just assumed it made him feel better since he's a high stress/high anxiety kitty but hearing that it might be for attention definitely makes sense too! My vet wasn't too concerned about either issue. Levi's panting is always during play and he doesn't pant any other time and my vet agreed that he was probably just going hard with playtime. As for Oliver's choking himself out, she didn't feel anything wrong with his throat or anything so I've just been ignoring him when he does it and yet he still continues to do it so I pretty much tell him "you do you, bro!"
