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I can't sleep for worrying about a feral cat. A colleague of mine who works for a different property management company in Tennessee has been telling me about a young tortie on her property who's in bad shape.
She says the cat's probably under a year old and is constantly drooling, and that the drool is almost like mucus in the sense that it's very thick. She also says that the cat's tail is missing fur and looks shriveled in places, and that the cat's eyes look strange. She claims that they aren't very clear and are--as she put it--"bugged" and yellowish. The cat eats, though. She feeds it three times a day and it eats nine ounces of Fancy Feast Classic Chicken Pate each day.
She's tried to no avail to trap the cat but can't. So she says, not even with the services of a wildlife trapper.
Stomatitis would cause drooling but stomatitis at under a year? I know it's possible but it isn't common. . . .and would a cat eat nine ounces a day with stomatitis or some other dental issue? Plus, one would think that if the drooling were caused by something stuck in the throat that the cat wouldn't eat. My colleague is concerned that someone poisoned the cat but it's been drooling for over eight weeks. Surely if poison were the culprit the cat would have either died or gotten better by now.
My colleague actually cried on me tonight because she said she feels so bad for this cat. She says that when it comes up to her to eat it's always covered in leaves. Her belief is that it's hiding and just waiting to die. She said that it will groom itself some but not like a normal cat.
She asked me for antibiotics which I will happily provide but I just can't figure out why the cat is drooling.
Any ideas?
Do you think amoxicillin clavulanic would be detrimental to the cat?
She says the cat's probably under a year old and is constantly drooling, and that the drool is almost like mucus in the sense that it's very thick. She also says that the cat's tail is missing fur and looks shriveled in places, and that the cat's eyes look strange. She claims that they aren't very clear and are--as she put it--"bugged" and yellowish. The cat eats, though. She feeds it three times a day and it eats nine ounces of Fancy Feast Classic Chicken Pate each day.
She's tried to no avail to trap the cat but can't. So she says, not even with the services of a wildlife trapper.
Stomatitis would cause drooling but stomatitis at under a year? I know it's possible but it isn't common. . . .and would a cat eat nine ounces a day with stomatitis or some other dental issue? Plus, one would think that if the drooling were caused by something stuck in the throat that the cat wouldn't eat. My colleague is concerned that someone poisoned the cat but it's been drooling for over eight weeks. Surely if poison were the culprit the cat would have either died or gotten better by now.
My colleague actually cried on me tonight because she said she feels so bad for this cat. She says that when it comes up to her to eat it's always covered in leaves. Her belief is that it's hiding and just waiting to die. She said that it will groom itself some but not like a normal cat.
She asked me for antibiotics which I will happily provide but I just can't figure out why the cat is drooling.
Any ideas?
Do you think amoxicillin clavulanic would be detrimental to the cat?
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