Charlie, my cat, is very ill. It is agony watching him. I am going back to the vet for the 5th time in about 3 weeks. He is on antibiotics but they are not working. In fact he has got worse over the time I have been giving them to him (5 days).
He has a temperature. He has a swollen eyelid (right eye). He won’t eat or can’t eat. He tries to eat and stops. He can smell the food. It is as if something is preventing him. Sore throat? Blockage? I don’t know. He can’t eat the best food I can give him. He has stopped talking to me.
He has an acute bacterial infection that antibiotics don’t seem to fix. He also a viral infection as diagnosed by the vet.
He has lost quite a lot of weight. There is something going on beyond cat flu it seems to me but I don’t know. It might simply be a very bad case of herpes or calicivirus but I have a feeling it is more than that.
Anyway I had to get it off my chest. It is impossible for me to see him this ill and in discomfort. He can’t settle down. He constantly adjusts his position when resting. He constantly tries to remove something from his mouth with his tongue.
He has had two session of dental surgery so his teeth (what is left of them) should be OK. Fungal infection? No idea if this is the case. There could be something in the air around here which is causing an allergic reaction but he has no itchiness – nothing. I moved home and there is a lot of foliage around here. I am clutching at straws.
I’ll leave it there for the time being. I feel helpless.
I feel that. I don’t feel they are truly committed to resolving his illness. He is being processed as fast as is reasonably possible and I am being milked for money. They are good but there is always the pressure of making sufficient money to run the practice. And they tend to think conventionally and in a formulaic way. What I want is genuinely keen thinking and commitment.
Thanks Dee.
Thanks Babz. I’ll check that out. Strangely the vet did not recommend it. She recommended heating up food which we all know about. I feed him high quality cooked chicken for humans which just about works and if I have to I microwave it for 10 seconds to make it smell more.
Charlie is anxious and restless because he is febrile and in pain. An easy fix to help him not to be suffering.
I wish I could take him for 72 hours.
There also seems to be something called Liquivite cat food which is like chicken soup
I remember the feeling of despair, you just can’t think of anything else can you. I was wondering if that food we got from our vet for the boys a few months ago when they both had that nasty virus would be helpful, it’s supposed to be very appetising so it might tempt him and they only need to eat a little bit, it might be worth a try to see if he will eat it, you vet probably has it or similar, this is what it is, you might like to ask at your vet practice