Hi, All,
I recently lost one of my cats to renal failure, and his companion, my cat, Lola, has always been with him for company. I'm gone 10 hours a day due to a very long commute. She's a goodnatured cat, so I decided a couple of older kittens would be good, and they'd have each other to play with, if Lola wasn't into playing a ton. (But, she's very active and loves to run and play.)
She accepted them, I had them separate, intros through a baby gate. a week after they're all out, she stops eating much, then at all. 3 vet trips later, and they admitted her for syringe feeding and fluids and antibiotics as she had some mucus nasal discharge. she's prone to respiratory things, and will all the changes recently, plus she just got a dental cleaning done, maybe her immune system was depressed.
she's home now, she's been eating too-special critical care food -and i hope she keeps getting better. I was told to separate her from the new kittens until her recheck in two weeks.
Does this all sound like it happens frequently with new cats coming in? the kittens were at a very clean no kill shelter.
I'm going to ask my vet about the L-lysine, and if the two kittens should come in and maybe get on antibiotics too-he's a little sneezy.
They had a cold type thing back in March/April which the shelter said was stubborn but maybe they're still carrying it?
Thoughts?
I recently lost one of my cats to renal failure, and his companion, my cat, Lola, has always been with him for company. I'm gone 10 hours a day due to a very long commute. She's a goodnatured cat, so I decided a couple of older kittens would be good, and they'd have each other to play with, if Lola wasn't into playing a ton. (But, she's very active and loves to run and play.)
She accepted them, I had them separate, intros through a baby gate. a week after they're all out, she stops eating much, then at all. 3 vet trips later, and they admitted her for syringe feeding and fluids and antibiotics as she had some mucus nasal discharge. she's prone to respiratory things, and will all the changes recently, plus she just got a dental cleaning done, maybe her immune system was depressed.
she's home now, she's been eating too-special critical care food -and i hope she keeps getting better. I was told to separate her from the new kittens until her recheck in two weeks.
Does this all sound like it happens frequently with new cats coming in? the kittens were at a very clean no kill shelter.
I'm going to ask my vet about the L-lysine, and if the two kittens should come in and maybe get on antibiotics too-he's a little sneezy.
They had a cold type thing back in March/April which the shelter said was stubborn but maybe they're still carrying it?
Thoughts?