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Hello,
We adopted a cat from a shelter one week ago. She is about 7 months old. When I took her home she was sneezing then the next day sneezing with a bloody nose. I took her to the vet at the shelter as they said they would help with any problems for the next couple of weeks. They gave her antibiotics to take twice a day. I started her on them and the sneezing started getting better and less frequent. But she had increasingly bad diarrhea. I thought for the first day or two that it was simply an adjustment to new food. But it kept getting worse. I brought her back in and they said just make sure she's getting water and as long as she is active and eating don't worry since she was still on antibiotics and had just been dewormed. Two days later her anus turned puffy and red. I took her back in right away. They said it was anal/rectal prolapse. So she is at the vet now, they have sutured her anus and put it back in place and they are treating the diarrhea. They are supposed to get back to me in 3-5 days to let me know when the diarrhea is gone and that the sutures for the prolapse have fixed it.
Basically, I want to know if this condition has a high recurrence rate. The reason I ask is that I have two young children with special needs who became attached to the cat immediately and are upset that she is now gone. I have told them that the cat is staying with the friendly doctor, but I haven't really made it clear if or when she will come back. It's not that I don't want to care for this sweet cat if she has a recurring problem- it's that I don't think my children can handle a cat with poor health coming in and out of their lives.
Before anyone says I shouldn't have taken on a cat if I don't want to care for it. I do want to definitely do what's best for this sweet furry girl.
I knew that possibility of dealing with health problems as I have had cats before- my previous two were with me for 15 and 16 years and I cared for them like they were my children. But this has been a troubling experience from the start. I had hoped before we had to address any health issue about the cats, for the kids sake, it would be a little farther down the line.
So I really need to know what the chances are of this happening again, and if it could potentially be life threatening? Does this sound like a cat that would be chronically ill? Because I can't put the kids through that so soon with their first pet. Can prolapse be prevented by any thing I can do so it won't happen again? Should I leave her at the shelter where she can be cared for by the very good staff? (it's a shelter that does not euthanize, and the animals are well cared for).
If anyone can give me some input and advice, I would really appreciate it.
We adopted a cat from a shelter one week ago. She is about 7 months old. When I took her home she was sneezing then the next day sneezing with a bloody nose. I took her to the vet at the shelter as they said they would help with any problems for the next couple of weeks. They gave her antibiotics to take twice a day. I started her on them and the sneezing started getting better and less frequent. But she had increasingly bad diarrhea. I thought for the first day or two that it was simply an adjustment to new food. But it kept getting worse. I brought her back in and they said just make sure she's getting water and as long as she is active and eating don't worry since she was still on antibiotics and had just been dewormed. Two days later her anus turned puffy and red. I took her back in right away. They said it was anal/rectal prolapse. So she is at the vet now, they have sutured her anus and put it back in place and they are treating the diarrhea. They are supposed to get back to me in 3-5 days to let me know when the diarrhea is gone and that the sutures for the prolapse have fixed it.
Basically, I want to know if this condition has a high recurrence rate. The reason I ask is that I have two young children with special needs who became attached to the cat immediately and are upset that she is now gone. I have told them that the cat is staying with the friendly doctor, but I haven't really made it clear if or when she will come back. It's not that I don't want to care for this sweet cat if she has a recurring problem- it's that I don't think my children can handle a cat with poor health coming in and out of their lives.
Before anyone says I shouldn't have taken on a cat if I don't want to care for it. I do want to definitely do what's best for this sweet furry girl.
I knew that possibility of dealing with health problems as I have had cats before- my previous two were with me for 15 and 16 years and I cared for them like they were my children. But this has been a troubling experience from the start. I had hoped before we had to address any health issue about the cats, for the kids sake, it would be a little farther down the line.
So I really need to know what the chances are of this happening again, and if it could potentially be life threatening? Does this sound like a cat that would be chronically ill? Because I can't put the kids through that so soon with their first pet. Can prolapse be prevented by any thing I can do so it won't happen again? Should I leave her at the shelter where she can be cared for by the very good staff? (it's a shelter that does not euthanize, and the animals are well cared for).
If anyone can give me some input and advice, I would really appreciate it.
