Hi
About Sneakers: He is Siamese, 8 years old and overwieght.
Symptoms: Chronic cough, left watering eye, blood in vomit, trouble breathing and sometimes choking for air.
Right now Sneakers is at the animal hospital being treated because early yesterday morning he was choking and throwing up blood. The doctor has told us that he thinks Sneakers might have Pneumonia. He told us the possible causes, which included FIP.
My question is, can an indoor single cat get FIP? He has never been in contact with any other animal also, so how could he have contracted FIP?
Also, Sneakers lungs were full of liquid (I think blood, because the doctor said that was why he was throwing up blood, that it was from his lungs and not his stomach), and he has been coughing alot for months now (I always thought he was trying to get rid of hairballs), with these two factors, what are my cats chances of surviving and becoming his normal self again?
I am very very worried right now and I would like to know what you all think. The doctor did not tell me that his condition was fatal, but then again I did not ask. I was so paniced at the moment that I didn't think to ask any of the questions I have now.
I will be asking the doctor these questions later today when I go back to check on him.
Thanks for any responses and I hope there is hope out there for my cat Sneakers.
About Sneakers: He is Siamese, 8 years old and overwieght.
Symptoms: Chronic cough, left watering eye, blood in vomit, trouble breathing and sometimes choking for air.
Right now Sneakers is at the animal hospital being treated because early yesterday morning he was choking and throwing up blood. The doctor has told us that he thinks Sneakers might have Pneumonia. He told us the possible causes, which included FIP.
My question is, can an indoor single cat get FIP? He has never been in contact with any other animal also, so how could he have contracted FIP?
Also, Sneakers lungs were full of liquid (I think blood, because the doctor said that was why he was throwing up blood, that it was from his lungs and not his stomach), and he has been coughing alot for months now (I always thought he was trying to get rid of hairballs), with these two factors, what are my cats chances of surviving and becoming his normal self again?
I am very very worried right now and I would like to know what you all think. The doctor did not tell me that his condition was fatal, but then again I did not ask. I was so paniced at the moment that I didn't think to ask any of the questions I have now.
I will be asking the doctor these questions later today when I go back to check on him.
Thanks for any responses and I hope there is hope out there for my cat Sneakers.