I will make my way over to the 'Over the Bridge' forum in a moment... but thought I would post here to see if anyone had ANY ideas what this could've been....
I took in a stray in mid-July. Vet said about 8-10 weeks old. I got her treated for fleas, ear mites and a URI the day I got her before I ever went home... Ear mites cleared up, as the did the fleas... but the URI didn't go away. After a month I took her to a different vet, got different meds, and still it didn't clear up. Being a volunteer at a shelter I knew this was not normal, but apparently there was nothing that would fix it. So she had it the entire time I had her...
At first she was a happy, playful kitten, as she should've been. Then I noticed she wouldn't go crazy over her lil snowman or a string or her mousie. She just slept. Walking around following me... and slept (and ate/drink/pottied of course). I figured, ok, she's just a chill kitten... whatever
Then I noticed her belly getting bigger and bigger and she was super skinny everywhere else. Not pregnant for sure, and no worms in her stool...
Yesterday morning before I went to work she couldn't really even use her legs. I put her down on the floor and she collapsed. She made it to a spot by the heater and practically put her head on it (steam heat, verrrry hot), so I moved her back some.
I don't recall where she was when I left her, but I came home and looked on my bed, the floor, the bathtub, by the heater and in the sink..... all her favorite places to sleep. Nothing, so I got to look under the bed (she NEVER went under there) and saw she had died inside her litter box... and at only about 6 months old
So now I have no idea what it is, and I am worried about my other two cats because they usually roam the apartment together (except yesterday because I had shut the kitten in the bedroom/bathroom)... one of my cats even licked the kitten a lot. Which made me realize that I can't remember the kitten ever giving herself a bath, at least no where in the recent past.
Thoughts?
I took in a stray in mid-July. Vet said about 8-10 weeks old. I got her treated for fleas, ear mites and a URI the day I got her before I ever went home... Ear mites cleared up, as the did the fleas... but the URI didn't go away. After a month I took her to a different vet, got different meds, and still it didn't clear up. Being a volunteer at a shelter I knew this was not normal, but apparently there was nothing that would fix it. So she had it the entire time I had her...
At first she was a happy, playful kitten, as she should've been. Then I noticed she wouldn't go crazy over her lil snowman or a string or her mousie. She just slept. Walking around following me... and slept (and ate/drink/pottied of course). I figured, ok, she's just a chill kitten... whatever
Then I noticed her belly getting bigger and bigger and she was super skinny everywhere else. Not pregnant for sure, and no worms in her stool...
Yesterday morning before I went to work she couldn't really even use her legs. I put her down on the floor and she collapsed. She made it to a spot by the heater and practically put her head on it (steam heat, verrrry hot), so I moved her back some.
I don't recall where she was when I left her, but I came home and looked on my bed, the floor, the bathtub, by the heater and in the sink..... all her favorite places to sleep. Nothing, so I got to look under the bed (she NEVER went under there) and saw she had died inside her litter box... and at only about 6 months old
So now I have no idea what it is, and I am worried about my other two cats because they usually roam the apartment together (except yesterday because I had shut the kitten in the bedroom/bathroom)... one of my cats even licked the kitten a lot. Which made me realize that I can't remember the kitten ever giving herself a bath, at least no where in the recent past.
Thoughts?