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1 year ago we adopted 2 kittens from the Humane Society. Two beautifully loving munchkins named Zoey & Cody. Some may remember Zoey's story on previous blogs. She was 3 months old with pneumonia, strep and a staph infection. She had 2 collapsed lung lobes and spent several weeks on oxygen and on a nebulizer. Great News is Zoe Zoe just celebrated her 1st birthday and is doing well!! She's a feisty 10 lb little munchkin. She's developed such a personality and to look at her you would never know she was so sick. Cody had bronchitis and was treated with doxicyclin and seemed to recover fairly quickly. Cody has always had a little wheezing noise (like nasal congestion) every now and then when he breathes, but nothing that we thought was alarming.
Fast forward to yesterday...I came home from work to find that my precious boy Cody threw up several times. The first 2 were very clear hairballs and the others were just bile. After those episodes we noticed that he wasn't eating or drinking as much but assumed it was because of the vomiting. Initially we didn't think much about it since there were obvious hairballs, which Cody does get periodically being a long hair kitty. All other symptoms were normal...played with his fuzzy ball, followed me around as I got ready for work and played with his sister Zoey like usual. Then this morning about 1.5 hours after he ate breakfast he threw up a mixture of food and bile. That's when we decided to take him to the vet.
We were hoping he just had large hairball and we would be able to give him some laxatone and be on our way. Sadly the vet took some X-rays, only to bring us devastating news. Our baby boy has a severely enlarged heart!
Below is Cody's x-ray from today...
This is Zoey's X-ray from last year...
Fast forward to yesterday...I came home from work to find that my precious boy Cody threw up several times. The first 2 were very clear hairballs and the others were just bile. After those episodes we noticed that he wasn't eating or drinking as much but assumed it was because of the vomiting. Initially we didn't think much about it since there were obvious hairballs, which Cody does get periodically being a long hair kitty. All other symptoms were normal...played with his fuzzy ball, followed me around as I got ready for work and played with his sister Zoey like usual. Then this morning about 1.5 hours after he ate breakfast he threw up a mixture of food and bile. That's when we decided to take him to the vet.
We were hoping he just had large hairball and we would be able to give him some laxatone and be on our way. Sadly the vet took some X-rays, only to bring us devastating news. Our baby boy has a severely enlarged heart!
Below is Cody's x-ray from today...
This is Zoey's X-ray from last year...