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I have a 10 month old kitty who has been very sick the past two weeks. Almost two weeks ago, I noticed he had been sleeping all day and hadn't eaten for that day so I took him and tried to play with him a bit, I noticed when i picked him up with my hand on his tummy he would growl a bit like it was hurting, then when i set him down he would just sit there and do nothing. In the end I couldn't get him to eat anything that day. The next morning I tried to get him to eat again and he was so weak he kept collapsing every time I set him down and if he tried to walk, his back legs would give out. This continued for 4-5 days and I only was able to get him to drink some raw milk and only if I helped him get to the bowl. He wouldn't touch any other food or water. He didn't poop for 3 days during that time too. He was urinating fine though, except he couldn't climb in the box so he peed beside it . He began eating raw chicken after some coaxing on the 4th day. He's been eating raw chicken since then and continues eating well. He still won't touch water or his normal food(wellness dry food) though . Even after eating normally for a week his back legs are still so week and he sleeps almost all day. He's slowly improving I think but I'm unsure. He still can't pee in the box properly and if I try to help him and he runs off and pees somewhere else. He's pooped twice more since then. I've taken him to a vet and an animal hospital and let him stay over night and they've run a lot of test but so far all the tests have come back negative(blood tests, fip test, feline leukemia test, and others..). They have no idea whats wrong or how to treat it and neither do I. They gave me antibiotics to try and they've done nothing but stress the kitty out more than he already is (He's timid by nature, I think because his mom was a feral cat he fears humans a bit). I'm at my wits end since I'm constantly cleaning up cat pee and I don't have any idea how to treat him. Has anyone seen these symptoms in a young cat before? It doesn't help that he's afraid of me since I haven't had him long enough to properly bond with him, he won't learn to trust me so long as I have to shove pills down his throat
I have a 10 month old kitty who has been very sick the past two weeks. Almost two weeks ago, I noticed he had been sleeping all day and hadn't eaten for that day so I took him and tried to play with him a bit, I noticed when i picked him up with my hand on his tummy he would growl a bit like it was hurting, then when i set him down he would just sit there and do nothing. In the end I couldn't get him to eat anything that day. The next morning I tried to get him to eat again and he was so weak he kept collapsing every time I set him down and if he tried to walk, his back legs would give out. This continued for 4-5 days and I only was able to get him to drink some raw milk and only if I helped him get to the bowl. He wouldn't touch any other food or water. He didn't poop for 3 days during that time too. He was urinating fine though, except he couldn't climb in the box so he peed beside it . He began eating raw chicken after some coaxing on the 4th day. He's been eating raw chicken since then and continues eating well. He still won't touch water or his normal food(wellness dry food) though . Even after eating normally for a week his back legs are still so week and he sleeps almost all day. He's slowly improving I think but I'm unsure. He still can't pee in the box properly and if I try to help him and he runs off and pees somewhere else. He's pooped twice more since then. I've taken him to a vet and an animal hospital and let him stay over night and they've run a lot of test but so far all the tests have come back negative(blood tests, fip test, feline leukemia test, and others..). They have no idea whats wrong or how to treat it and neither do I. They gave me antibiotics to try and they've done nothing but stress the kitty out more than he already is (He's timid by nature, I think because his mom was a feral cat he fears humans a bit). I'm at my wits end since I'm constantly cleaning up cat pee and I don't have any idea how to treat him. Has anyone seen these symptoms in a young cat before? It doesn't help that he's afraid of me since I haven't had him long enough to properly bond with him, he won't learn to trust me so long as I have to shove pills down his throat