As always the only lung that sound bad is her left one. Everything with this cat is always on the left and never on the right. Her left eye, her left nostril and now her left lung. I just don't get it. She was really bad, I caught her breathing through her mouth a few times. She got the standard 2 shots and anti biotics(Doxy) to fix her up.
However Attitude is at her goal weight, she is 10.2 lbs and the vet says she is at the perfect weight for her. WOOHOO, my fat cat is no longer fat. She looks huge though, she has started to grow her winter coat so she is extra fluffy. At the vet someone said that she was a big cat, not that any 10.2 lb cat who is the correct weight is small, she had a massively huge dad and her grandmother's long coat. She's your average old moggie, we only had one neighborhood tom at the time, she has his coloring and her grandmother is part of the colony I take care of. She meant size wise, her hair is longer than it normally is and so soft soft and glossy, she looks beautiful(I heard that from others as well), she she looks even more massive than she already is. She always get compliments on how well behaved she is, she will lay down on me or in a chair or sit on the floor and be quiet and calm. She needs a bath though her coat looks a little yellowed to me but to everyone else she is white and black. I told them her brother was 12 -12.5 lbs so he was even bigger. She looked shocked that I had a cat bigger than Attitude.
I gave her her antibiotic last night and she started retching and seem to not want to eat the canned food I gave them, they had already ate all their dry that is out all day(measured free feeding) so she might have just been full. She eventually licked up a little of it and she never actually got anything up. I left a message with the vet's that she was puking(I honestly thought I was going to be cleaning up cat puke) because the vet was very clear in saying to call if she starts vomiting or having diarrhea. Paul is going to give it to her tonight and see if we have a repeat performance. There was no other reason for her to get sick though so i think it's the antibiotic, I think she barfed the last time she was on Doxy(not badly just a few times, that is why I give canned after giving it to them, at the vet's suggestion) now that I think about it. It's liquid this time so I think it's hitting her quicker than a pill.
She sounds better, she is no longer snoring and snuffling as much and she seems to be breathing easier.
Poor cat I swear she has seen the vet more than any other animal I know, no matter what age they are.
I do however wish the vets and techs would get it straight, when they don't look at her chart, that she is FeLV+ not FIV+ but they do see more FIV cats than FeLV, FeLV is very rare around here, she is the only positive cat(other than Nuts) they have at the moment. Just a minor annoyance and it all comes down to about the same thing, she's immuno compromised. I guess I should be thankful they even know she is compromised off the top of their heads, they just don't have the right virus.
Taryn
However Attitude is at her goal weight, she is 10.2 lbs and the vet says she is at the perfect weight for her. WOOHOO, my fat cat is no longer fat. She looks huge though, she has started to grow her winter coat so she is extra fluffy. At the vet someone said that she was a big cat, not that any 10.2 lb cat who is the correct weight is small, she had a massively huge dad and her grandmother's long coat. She's your average old moggie, we only had one neighborhood tom at the time, she has his coloring and her grandmother is part of the colony I take care of. She meant size wise, her hair is longer than it normally is and so soft soft and glossy, she looks beautiful(I heard that from others as well), she she looks even more massive than she already is. She always get compliments on how well behaved she is, she will lay down on me or in a chair or sit on the floor and be quiet and calm. She needs a bath though her coat looks a little yellowed to me but to everyone else she is white and black. I told them her brother was 12 -12.5 lbs so he was even bigger. She looked shocked that I had a cat bigger than Attitude.
I gave her her antibiotic last night and she started retching and seem to not want to eat the canned food I gave them, they had already ate all their dry that is out all day(measured free feeding) so she might have just been full. She eventually licked up a little of it and she never actually got anything up. I left a message with the vet's that she was puking(I honestly thought I was going to be cleaning up cat puke) because the vet was very clear in saying to call if she starts vomiting or having diarrhea. Paul is going to give it to her tonight and see if we have a repeat performance. There was no other reason for her to get sick though so i think it's the antibiotic, I think she barfed the last time she was on Doxy(not badly just a few times, that is why I give canned after giving it to them, at the vet's suggestion) now that I think about it. It's liquid this time so I think it's hitting her quicker than a pill.
She sounds better, she is no longer snoring and snuffling as much and she seems to be breathing easier.
Poor cat I swear she has seen the vet more than any other animal I know, no matter what age they are.
I do however wish the vets and techs would get it straight, when they don't look at her chart, that she is FeLV+ not FIV+ but they do see more FIV cats than FeLV, FeLV is very rare around here, she is the only positive cat(other than Nuts) they have at the moment. Just a minor annoyance and it all comes down to about the same thing, she's immuno compromised. I guess I should be thankful they even know she is compromised off the top of their heads, they just don't have the right virus.
Taryn
