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I lost my 1.5 year old beautiful baby, Timothy, to FIP last week and came here for some comfort as the pain is too much.
I had only 1 cat in my house and he was always kept inside. I brought him in on 18 January 2013, he had fleas at the time which we cured. he grew up looking healthy and playful. He was neutered on october. had all his vaccines which I dont know if these have caused him to develop weak immune system or not. I cannot help but to feel guilty =[ He was gone in 18 of april 2014.
My experience started with him drinking too much water and less food and then with stoping both! at first the symptoms looked like ulcer but ultrasound and xrays showed nothing and then they susspected liver, kidney and nothing found! he had been tested for FIV, FeLV and all was negative. the most significant symptoms were fever that didnt respond to medication and would come back and bacteria infection in the blood test. He didnt have diarrhoea but very dark stool. so they ran a test for antibody titre for FCoV and it was highly positive. they diagnosed him with FIP dry but the vet suggest not to put him down until he shows critical signs and i suggest you do the best you can do for him as you can never be sure with FIP.
he had Marbocyl for antibiotics and Steroids to suppress the immune system with other supplements as iron and fish oil...
The sad part about this disease is that it can give false hopes, at first i noticed his back legs do a very minor slip but it went away and after that a very minor head shaking came in which the vet suspected is becuz of the fever. then they all went away and he was very alert and would follow me around everywhere! he didnt want to be alone for a second and would sit next to me! I had to force feed him during these time and all the medications as well. In my experience it was easier for him if when I did this alone and talked to him to calm him down without any towel or anything else (he would try to ran away if I wrap him or someone else held him). The best thing you can do is to calm him down.
To me he was getting better until suddenly he started having seizures. the first time the medication for seizure helped but the final night he start having seizure one after another and the medication wouldnt help until he was in shock and couldnt remember me or his surroundings and the final he wasnt getting out of it and that was the time for me to put him down. I couldnt do it any time sooner as the feeling and the guilt was too much. I still feel that maybe it was my fault or I could anything any other way...
I had only 1 cat in my house and he was always kept inside. I brought him in on 18 January 2013, he had fleas at the time which we cured. he grew up looking healthy and playful. He was neutered on october. had all his vaccines which I dont know if these have caused him to develop weak immune system or not. I cannot help but to feel guilty =[ He was gone in 18 of april 2014.
My experience started with him drinking too much water and less food and then with stoping both! at first the symptoms looked like ulcer but ultrasound and xrays showed nothing and then they susspected liver, kidney and nothing found! he had been tested for FIV, FeLV and all was negative. the most significant symptoms were fever that didnt respond to medication and would come back and bacteria infection in the blood test. He didnt have diarrhoea but very dark stool. so they ran a test for antibody titre for FCoV and it was highly positive. they diagnosed him with FIP dry but the vet suggest not to put him down until he shows critical signs and i suggest you do the best you can do for him as you can never be sure with FIP.
he had Marbocyl for antibiotics and Steroids to suppress the immune system with other supplements as iron and fish oil...
The sad part about this disease is that it can give false hopes, at first i noticed his back legs do a very minor slip but it went away and after that a very minor head shaking came in which the vet suspected is becuz of the fever. then they all went away and he was very alert and would follow me around everywhere! he didnt want to be alone for a second and would sit next to me! I had to force feed him during these time and all the medications as well. In my experience it was easier for him if when I did this alone and talked to him to calm him down without any towel or anything else (he would try to ran away if I wrap him or someone else held him). The best thing you can do is to calm him down.
To me he was getting better until suddenly he started having seizures. the first time the medication for seizure helped but the final night he start having seizure one after another and the medication wouldnt help until he was in shock and couldnt remember me or his surroundings and the final he wasnt getting out of it and that was the time for me to put him down. I couldnt do it any time sooner as the feeling and the guilt was too much. I still feel that maybe it was my fault or I could anything any other way...
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FIP is a devastating disease that there's no control over, i.e., whatever you did or didn't do would not have averted Timothy's fate. His life was too short, but it was filled with love, which is the most important thing.
