Hello everyone,
We recently adopted a 1 year old kitty. We have had him since late October and notice in the last month he was acting strange and had reduced appetite. My husband and I contributed it to a change in cat food at first. Then a week or two went by and the symptoms worsened. So we bought different food (several kinds wet and dry) and encouraged kitty to eat. Another week went by and this point he had reduced so much weight I knew a vet visit was extremely important if not critical. Taz ( our cat) went yesterday and after doing a fecal, blood, snap test, and urine analysis the prognosis is as such: Cat is dying of unknown conditions. Vet said feed him whatever he will eat including tuna, reduced sodium boars head lunch meat. Just really whatever. HIs IgG immunoglobulin were extremely high suggestion of a chronic unknown infection. The vet suggested a place where we could take the taz to do scans but it would costs a large amount of money to receive a terminal illness DX which to us is not justifiable to spend the money on. The cat was given a strong antibiotic, appetite stimulate, steroids, and critical care wet food.
My questions are this:
We have started steroid however concerned that this will just lower his immune system and allow whenever infection to kill him faster. Thoughts?
Not administering Antibiotic (px on the offside it is a weird bacterial infection but nothing present on smear test) because the side effects are vomiting and diarrhea and taz has very little appetite as it is.
I have been picking him up from his little spot where he spends a great amount of time sleeping and taking him to eat every two (2) hours? Should I continue this even though he is sleeping? Should I do it more frequently?
Any other advice would be most helpful.
Current symptoms are just weight loss, reduced appetite, and lethargic... and increase IgG antibodies. The vet has no clue.
Any advice and thoughts would be much appreciated.
We recently adopted a 1 year old kitty. We have had him since late October and notice in the last month he was acting strange and had reduced appetite. My husband and I contributed it to a change in cat food at first. Then a week or two went by and the symptoms worsened. So we bought different food (several kinds wet and dry) and encouraged kitty to eat. Another week went by and this point he had reduced so much weight I knew a vet visit was extremely important if not critical. Taz ( our cat) went yesterday and after doing a fecal, blood, snap test, and urine analysis the prognosis is as such: Cat is dying of unknown conditions. Vet said feed him whatever he will eat including tuna, reduced sodium boars head lunch meat. Just really whatever. HIs IgG immunoglobulin were extremely high suggestion of a chronic unknown infection. The vet suggested a place where we could take the taz to do scans but it would costs a large amount of money to receive a terminal illness DX which to us is not justifiable to spend the money on. The cat was given a strong antibiotic, appetite stimulate, steroids, and critical care wet food.
My questions are this:
We have started steroid however concerned that this will just lower his immune system and allow whenever infection to kill him faster. Thoughts?
Not administering Antibiotic (px on the offside it is a weird bacterial infection but nothing present on smear test) because the side effects are vomiting and diarrhea and taz has very little appetite as it is.
I have been picking him up from his little spot where he spends a great amount of time sleeping and taking him to eat every two (2) hours? Should I continue this even though he is sleeping? Should I do it more frequently?
Any other advice would be most helpful.
Current symptoms are just weight loss, reduced appetite, and lethargic... and increase IgG antibodies. The vet has no clue.
Any advice and thoughts would be much appreciated.
. So I will start antibiotics tomorrow. Give taz some time to get some nourishment in his body. He is anemic right now.
