Short story: I adopted a pair of 6 months old 10 days ago and they were both sneezing. Six days ago, I returned them to the shelter to be nursed back to health. They had URIs, fever, eye infections and worms. One was eating well and the other had to be force fed and subcuteously fed fluids.
I visited them today and sadly, I do not see much improvement. As a matter of the fact, the non-eater is still not eating and was put on intravenous feeding this weekend. Whatever symptoms they had six days ago are still present.
I've never had cats so I'm not sure what kind of timeline I should have in mind? I know that when I have sinus infections, if the antibiotics do not kick in within 3 or 4 days, it usually means I need a different kind of antibiotics or prednisone. What should I look out for cats?
When will my girls turn the corner? The shelter are doing what they can and I don't doubt their commitment to the cats, it is 100%. I call daily to get updates and the shelter tells me I need to be patient. So help me here, when is it "patience" and when is it time to do something different? I don't want to step on toes, but ultimately it's about the cats' health.
The cats have not had blood work done. I think I should push for this procedure in my daily call on Monday.
I visited them today and sadly, I do not see much improvement. As a matter of the fact, the non-eater is still not eating and was put on intravenous feeding this weekend. Whatever symptoms they had six days ago are still present.
I've never had cats so I'm not sure what kind of timeline I should have in mind? I know that when I have sinus infections, if the antibiotics do not kick in within 3 or 4 days, it usually means I need a different kind of antibiotics or prednisone. What should I look out for cats?
When will my girls turn the corner? The shelter are doing what they can and I don't doubt their commitment to the cats, it is 100%. I call daily to get updates and the shelter tells me I need to be patient. So help me here, when is it "patience" and when is it time to do something different? I don't want to step on toes, but ultimately it's about the cats' health.
The cats have not had blood work done. I think I should push for this procedure in my daily call on Monday.