Hi - new to these forums... hoping someone has had a similar experience and can help me...
My 2 kittens were neutered this week, the boy is skipping around without a care in the world but the poor female cat is very poorly... She was neutered on Tuesday at lunchtime, came home Tuesday night and was ok, a little drunk but OK. On Wednesday evening I noticed that she'd not moved for about 9/10 hours, hadn't eaten and unresponsive. Called the vets, said it sounded like kidney failure from the anesthetic or surgery. Said she couldn't do bloods that night, but to bring her in first thing Thursday morning. She had a temperature of about 103.6, so they kept her in for the day, gave her anti-biotic injection and something to bring fever down. She responded well, within a few hours she was eating and cleaning herself, she had another injection to keep fever down and came home. Vet doesn't know what's causing it as she said an infection wouldn't kick in that soon. Kitten was fine this morning, then started looking poorly again this afteroon, wasn't moving, not responsive and wouldn't eat tuna. Rang vets, she's back in the vets over night, she's on a drip and has had injection to bring fever down again. Vet thinks her immune system could have had an adverse reaction to the surgery, but not really too sure.
Anyone ever seen this or experienced it. Is it possible she could have pick up something whilst at the vets and it's nothing to do with the surgery - maybe FIP.
Please help, she's such a sweet little kitty.
thanks.
My 2 kittens were neutered this week, the boy is skipping around without a care in the world but the poor female cat is very poorly... She was neutered on Tuesday at lunchtime, came home Tuesday night and was ok, a little drunk but OK. On Wednesday evening I noticed that she'd not moved for about 9/10 hours, hadn't eaten and unresponsive. Called the vets, said it sounded like kidney failure from the anesthetic or surgery. Said she couldn't do bloods that night, but to bring her in first thing Thursday morning. She had a temperature of about 103.6, so they kept her in for the day, gave her anti-biotic injection and something to bring fever down. She responded well, within a few hours she was eating and cleaning herself, she had another injection to keep fever down and came home. Vet doesn't know what's causing it as she said an infection wouldn't kick in that soon. Kitten was fine this morning, then started looking poorly again this afteroon, wasn't moving, not responsive and wouldn't eat tuna. Rang vets, she's back in the vets over night, she's on a drip and has had injection to bring fever down again. Vet thinks her immune system could have had an adverse reaction to the surgery, but not really too sure.
Anyone ever seen this or experienced it. Is it possible she could have pick up something whilst at the vets and it's nothing to do with the surgery - maybe FIP.
Please help, she's such a sweet little kitty.
thanks.
I didn't ask the name of the drug they gave her to reduce her temperature, but they said it was an ant-inflamatory. She also had her bloods done last Friday and everything was ok. I didn't ask the vet if it was FIP, but i suspect it would have turned up in bloods. I'll go visit her tomorrow, hopefully she'll still be on the mend. Meanwhile, her brother is so lonely, has no one to play with and seems to enjoy eating me feet instead, quite painful sometimes! Thanks again guys, will let you know how she gets on this week, I feel slightly more at ease now.
