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It seems to have come on suddenly. He has been losing weight finally on a diet and also spending lots of time in the garage looking for mice. Suddenly he was sneezing more which he has done for years with no known cause and his breathing was weird and then he stopped eating which is an alarm for him. But it turned out what I thought was nasal congestion was actually him coughing and was lung congestion.
I took him to dvm and the xray showed it. He had a high fever too. They sent him home with amoxy clav and gave him a steroid shot. He still has not started eating, and heāll only eat a little bit of a licky treat and lick the gravy off of food and heās drinking water. This is day 2-3 starting of antibiotic. Iām not seeing a lot of improvement yet but itās only 2 days. Iāve been on the phone with the doctor, and wondering what else I can do. He said if his respiration goes above 32 for 30 seconds to go to er.
he alternates between being on the bed in my room and going under the bed Iām keeping him in my room with heat up, and keeping the other cats out.
They had to sedate him to do the x-ray because he didnāt want to lay on his side and he was screeching, etc. so Iām sure that gave him a double whammy.
I just got back from Dvm and Iām going to give him Mirataz transdermal which is an appetite stimulant transdermal, which I have never tried before this tiny tube plus like $40 and Iām supposed to give him an inch and a half once a day so I wonder how long thatās gonna last I hope it works.
I am just so worried that heās going to die, that itās not really pneumonia and he has cancer. But the DVM does not think it is cancer or anything like that. His bw was good yesterday and he is neg for fiv/ felv. Itās such a shock because it all happened so suddenly I was just giving them all a lick treat together which he gobbled up about two nights before this
Has anyone ever treated pneumonia in their cat and what did you do? I have never had any cat who had pneumonia. I thought it might be heart failure when I brought him in, but he said that he ruled that out due to the fever and the heart looked good, but he also said the x-ray was very congested / opaque so he couldnāt see the heart so well.
He is on amoxy clave 2 mL two times per day. Iām going to pick up an appetite stimulant for him tomorrow to see if we can get him eating again. Heās purring quite a bit and roll over to get his tummy pad a little bit but then he goes back into looking like heās not comfortable and breathing more etc. it seems to come and go I donāt think itās an emergency because Iāve tested the respiration rate a few times.
I took him to dvm and the xray showed it. He had a high fever too. They sent him home with amoxy clav and gave him a steroid shot. He still has not started eating, and heāll only eat a little bit of a licky treat and lick the gravy off of food and heās drinking water. This is day 2-3 starting of antibiotic. Iām not seeing a lot of improvement yet but itās only 2 days. Iāve been on the phone with the doctor, and wondering what else I can do. He said if his respiration goes above 32 for 30 seconds to go to er.
he alternates between being on the bed in my room and going under the bed Iām keeping him in my room with heat up, and keeping the other cats out.
They had to sedate him to do the x-ray because he didnāt want to lay on his side and he was screeching, etc. so Iām sure that gave him a double whammy.
I just got back from Dvm and Iām going to give him Mirataz transdermal which is an appetite stimulant transdermal, which I have never tried before this tiny tube plus like $40 and Iām supposed to give him an inch and a half once a day so I wonder how long thatās gonna last I hope it works.
I am just so worried that heās going to die, that itās not really pneumonia and he has cancer. But the DVM does not think it is cancer or anything like that. His bw was good yesterday and he is neg for fiv/ felv. Itās such a shock because it all happened so suddenly I was just giving them all a lick treat together which he gobbled up about two nights before this
Has anyone ever treated pneumonia in their cat and what did you do? I have never had any cat who had pneumonia. I thought it might be heart failure when I brought him in, but he said that he ruled that out due to the fever and the heart looked good, but he also said the x-ray was very congested / opaque so he couldnāt see the heart so well.
He is on amoxy clave 2 mL two times per day. Iām going to pick up an appetite stimulant for him tomorrow to see if we can get him eating again. Heās purring quite a bit and roll over to get his tummy pad a little bit but then he goes back into looking like heās not comfortable and breathing more etc. it seems to come and go I donāt think itās an emergency because Iāve tested the respiration rate a few times.