About 3 months ago my 11 year old cat went into heart failure and was diagnosed with Restrictive Cardiomyapothy. Since then, I've become paranoid about her breathing rates and after learning how to monitor her breathing, I find myself constantly watching her and counting her breaths.
I have other cats in the house and watching Wendy's breathing has also made me acutely aware of everyone else's breathing. Its something that I never paid attention to before Wendy's heart failure. But now I find myself counting breaths on every cat while they're sleeping.
So my question is, does anyone know if a young kitten should have a faster breathing rate than an adult cat? I have a 5 month old kitten who hasn't been spayed yet and I've been noticing that she takes more breaths than the adults do. We took her to the vet when she was about 2 months old to get dewormed, but she was too little for shots at the time, so she's had nothing else done to her yet. The vet said he'll give her vaccines when she gets spayed in a couple weeks. When the vet checked her out initially he said she was healthy for her age and for the fact that we found her tiny and undernourished. Now that I'm paranoid about heart disease though, I'm wondering if this might be an early sign of something wrong with her heart or if kittens just tend to breathe faster than adults. Anyone know?
I have other cats in the house and watching Wendy's breathing has also made me acutely aware of everyone else's breathing. Its something that I never paid attention to before Wendy's heart failure. But now I find myself counting breaths on every cat while they're sleeping.
So my question is, does anyone know if a young kitten should have a faster breathing rate than an adult cat? I have a 5 month old kitten who hasn't been spayed yet and I've been noticing that she takes more breaths than the adults do. We took her to the vet when she was about 2 months old to get dewormed, but she was too little for shots at the time, so she's had nothing else done to her yet. The vet said he'll give her vaccines when she gets spayed in a couple weeks. When the vet checked her out initially he said she was healthy for her age and for the fact that we found her tiny and undernourished. Now that I'm paranoid about heart disease though, I'm wondering if this might be an early sign of something wrong with her heart or if kittens just tend to breathe faster than adults. Anyone know?
