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Hi, my 7 or 8 month kitten has started getting worse in terms of being wobbly and losing balance in the back half of his body. We took him to the vet, and he found nothing physically wrong with him, his legs, or his hip. And the kitten does appear to be in any pain. He had a hoarse meow as well, so the vet gave us antibiotics thinking it could possibly be a sore throat that was affecting his balance, which we have now finished with, and the hoarse meow is no better, and the wobbly-ness seems at least as bad if not worse.
We just had a hurricane where i live (south florida), so the vet has been closed, but we will be taking him back this week, hopefully for blood work.
But my question is does this look like cerebral hypoplasia? I took videos (see below). Or what else could it look like? To me it looks similar to mild cases of CH i've seen online, but the thing is, it has definitely gotten more obvious in the past month. From what i've read, CH should be very noticeable from when the kitten starts to walk. This kitten for sure has always slipped and slided a bit more than my other cat, and fallen off things (i thought it was just because he was so rambunctious, more so than my other cat as a kitten), but it has without question gotten more evident and severe in the past month, and from what i've read that is not the way CH usually is? Is it possible that just as he has grown the CH has affected him more because hes further from the ground or something like that? Any advice or opinions would be very appreciated, this all has me very worried and nervous!
We just had a hurricane where i live (south florida), so the vet has been closed, but we will be taking him back this week, hopefully for blood work.
But my question is does this look like cerebral hypoplasia? I took videos (see below). Or what else could it look like? To me it looks similar to mild cases of CH i've seen online, but the thing is, it has definitely gotten more obvious in the past month. From what i've read, CH should be very noticeable from when the kitten starts to walk. This kitten for sure has always slipped and slided a bit more than my other cat, and fallen off things (i thought it was just because he was so rambunctious, more so than my other cat as a kitten), but it has without question gotten more evident and severe in the past month, and from what i've read that is not the way CH usually is? Is it possible that just as he has grown the CH has affected him more because hes further from the ground or something like that? Any advice or opinions would be very appreciated, this all has me very worried and nervous!
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