Just wanted to share my relief with everybody. Our foster kitten Orion on Friday went downhill with his URI...open-mouth breathing, not eating or drinking, lethargic. I was certain we were going to lose him. My partner and I both had a lot of weekend shifts to cover but we managed to alternate and after six doses of Doxycycline, Tobramycin in his eyes three times a day, and infant Neo-Synephrine drops in his nose as needed, not to mention syringe-feeding him water and low sodium chicken broth, he is finally on the mend.
No more open-mouth breathing. He still isn't eating much but enough to keep himself going and as the bacterial infection continues to clear I know he'll improve. Every night (or nap) I had nightmares that he would pass on and I kept checking my cell while I was at work to see if there was any news from home. It's been a while since I've seen a URI that bad and it was scary.
Orion is 10 weeks, neutered, and UTD on FVRCP. I'm not sure where the URI came from but it sure hit him hard. Neither of the two kittens he stays with got sick; one more in the house has a very mild URI. He is our little DLH Manxy mix with double jointed carpuses. I'm just worried that the severe URI may be indicative of systemic problems...but he made it this far and through neutering, and in my experience usually the ones with severe congenital defects don't come through the anesthesia, or don't make it to neutering age.
It reminds me of a few summers ago when we lost a whole litter of 5 week olds to URI. Just one after the other they got open mouth breathing and there was nothing we could really do. I was giving them SQ fluids and that's when I got the tip on the neosynephrine. It didn't help any of them but it seemed to have helped Orion. The vet I was working for even sent me home with Convenia for them and it was too little, too late.
This was supposed to be a celebratory post, sorry for being morbid. Hooray for little Orion, may you continue to kick that URI's butt, and then get the heck out of my house because we are WAY overcrowded here!
It has not been a good adoption month AT ALL and I've got 8 kittens until 7 months and one at 10 months that are all super adoptable...sweet, outgoing, cuddly, and good-looking. No takers, not even on the little ones. At least we got one adult adopted this past weekend, and another foster's 4 month old boy went home. That was nice...but I'm the one who's overcrowded, adopt MINE! Unfortunately it seems like after the first two adoption events, the kitties get blasé about events...at first they try really hard to attract attention and are extra cute, but then they lose interest and just nap most of the time. I try to interest them with toys, but that only does so much.
No more open-mouth breathing. He still isn't eating much but enough to keep himself going and as the bacterial infection continues to clear I know he'll improve. Every night (or nap) I had nightmares that he would pass on and I kept checking my cell while I was at work to see if there was any news from home. It's been a while since I've seen a URI that bad and it was scary.
Orion is 10 weeks, neutered, and UTD on FVRCP. I'm not sure where the URI came from but it sure hit him hard. Neither of the two kittens he stays with got sick; one more in the house has a very mild URI. He is our little DLH Manxy mix with double jointed carpuses. I'm just worried that the severe URI may be indicative of systemic problems...but he made it this far and through neutering, and in my experience usually the ones with severe congenital defects don't come through the anesthesia, or don't make it to neutering age.
It reminds me of a few summers ago when we lost a whole litter of 5 week olds to URI. Just one after the other they got open mouth breathing and there was nothing we could really do. I was giving them SQ fluids and that's when I got the tip on the neosynephrine. It didn't help any of them but it seemed to have helped Orion. The vet I was working for even sent me home with Convenia for them and it was too little, too late.
This was supposed to be a celebratory post, sorry for being morbid. Hooray for little Orion, may you continue to kick that URI's butt, and then get the heck out of my house because we are WAY overcrowded here!
It has not been a good adoption month AT ALL and I've got 8 kittens until 7 months and one at 10 months that are all super adoptable...sweet, outgoing, cuddly, and good-looking. No takers, not even on the little ones. At least we got one adult adopted this past weekend, and another foster's 4 month old boy went home. That was nice...but I'm the one who's overcrowded, adopt MINE! Unfortunately it seems like after the first two adoption events, the kitties get blasé about events...at first they try really hard to attract attention and are extra cute, but then they lose interest and just nap most of the time. I try to interest them with toys, but that only does so much.
