Hey everybody. I'll try to keep this short without rambling on too much.
I have a 15 year old female cat. I had a vet who did home visits but she's taken a break for a while and has another guy doing it for her. I noticed the cat had been losing a lot of weight so we had him come check her out.
When he came, he said she had bad teeth and mammary tumors of about 1.75 mm in size (if I remember correctly). When he was there, she started breathing really heavily. It's something I never saw before in her. Ever since then, she's been very lethargic and even the slightest physical activity wears her out and she goes back to breathing really heavy.
He's done a few things to try to help the breathing since he's unable to determine the source. He prescribed something that would help if it were an infection and that did nothing. He gave her a Cortizone shot about 8 days ago and that hasn't helped. He did blood tests and said that the breathing issues were not from any sort of cancer of the lungs. He hasn't returned my call from the other day, I'm thinking about getting a second opinion.
So what is realistically the next step? What could be other sources of the breathing issues? It hurts me to see the cat in such bad shape. And should I do anything about the mammary tumors or let nature do its thing?
I have a 15 year old female cat. I had a vet who did home visits but she's taken a break for a while and has another guy doing it for her. I noticed the cat had been losing a lot of weight so we had him come check her out.
When he came, he said she had bad teeth and mammary tumors of about 1.75 mm in size (if I remember correctly). When he was there, she started breathing really heavily. It's something I never saw before in her. Ever since then, she's been very lethargic and even the slightest physical activity wears her out and she goes back to breathing really heavy.
He's done a few things to try to help the breathing since he's unable to determine the source. He prescribed something that would help if it were an infection and that did nothing. He gave her a Cortizone shot about 8 days ago and that hasn't helped. He did blood tests and said that the breathing issues were not from any sort of cancer of the lungs. He hasn't returned my call from the other day, I'm thinking about getting a second opinion.
So what is realistically the next step? What could be other sources of the breathing issues? It hurts me to see the cat in such bad shape. And should I do anything about the mammary tumors or let nature do its thing?