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My baby, Piper, a 2 year old female (spayed) cat suddenly became VERY different on Monday. Last week (3/16 & 3/17) she was acting distant and a little be lethargic. We suspect it was her who had vomited a liquidy clearish fluid about 3 times over the previous weekend. I say suspect, because we also have a 6 month old kitten, but she is and has been acting normal. At any rate, Piper bounced back on Wednesday and was acting like her normal, happy-go-lucky self. . . . . But suddenly on Monday of this week (3/23) we noticed she had not moved from her "hiding spot" on a shelf with a cushion on it under our kitchen island. So of course we started to pay a lot more attention to her. Since then we've observed the following:
-will not get up to walk, period.
-will eat a treat if you bring it to her, but will not eat her hard food if you bring it to her.
-would not drink water, period.
-Obviously not getting up to go to the litter box, but also will not relieve herself anywhere. Not even where she is laying or right outside of her bed.
-Growls if you go to touch her. My fiance says it's when he is touching her back legs, but I tend to disagree. I have picked her up and put her on all four paws and it seems to me that something is up with the FRONT of her body. Her front legs don't seem to be working like they usually do. She CAN walk, but it doesn't seem very stable to me.
-She is, again, extremely lethargic. Barely lifts her head when you walk in or are loving on her. But if you get the laser pointer out, she will perk up. It's almost like you can see that she wants to play, but makes the decision that she can't.
At first I thought maybe a UTI due to the fact that I changed litter about 2 or 3 weeks ago. I have made sure that I changed back to the original litter and I have been cleaning the box obsessively. We did also change food from something (I can't remember what it was) to iams indoor proactive health.
Again, this has been going on since at the very least, Monday. Wednesday night I started to freak out and called the emergency vet. They advised that it probably wasn't necessary to bring her in since I had already scheduled an appointment with the regular vet for Thursday at noon.
We brought her in to the vet yesterday (3/26) and she ended up urinating FINALLY in her carrier right before they took her back to get blood work. Good that she did that, but not good because they were then unable to get a urine sample. Her temp was almost 105 F upon arrival at the office, but the doctor suspected that it could possibly be up due to stress.
So they gave her IV fluids, of course she was dehydrated. Ran a bunch of blood work, but everything has come back normal so far. They did send off some to an outside lab that hopefully we will have back today. They only thing that was out of the normal was an elevated white blood cell count. The Doctor is stumped and that is what is freaking me out right now. He sent her home with an anti-inflammatory as well as an antibiotic to try to be proactive while we are waiting for answers.
When we got her home yesterday, gave her a small bowl of water and she went to town drinking it! It made me so happy, but again, she hasn't gone to the bathroom or anything.
We were sent home with Critical Care soft food that she, apparently, loved and chowed down on yesterday while at the vet. I tried to give her some this morning and she wanted nothing to do with it. Same with water.
My baby is only 2 years old and this is ridiculous! I don't know what's wrong with her and I don't want to lose her. It's awful watching her lay in misery. Does anyone by chance have any ideas or had this kind of experience????
-will not get up to walk, period.
-will eat a treat if you bring it to her, but will not eat her hard food if you bring it to her.
-would not drink water, period.
-Obviously not getting up to go to the litter box, but also will not relieve herself anywhere. Not even where she is laying or right outside of her bed.
-Growls if you go to touch her. My fiance says it's when he is touching her back legs, but I tend to disagree. I have picked her up and put her on all four paws and it seems to me that something is up with the FRONT of her body. Her front legs don't seem to be working like they usually do. She CAN walk, but it doesn't seem very stable to me.
-She is, again, extremely lethargic. Barely lifts her head when you walk in or are loving on her. But if you get the laser pointer out, she will perk up. It's almost like you can see that she wants to play, but makes the decision that she can't.
At first I thought maybe a UTI due to the fact that I changed litter about 2 or 3 weeks ago. I have made sure that I changed back to the original litter and I have been cleaning the box obsessively. We did also change food from something (I can't remember what it was) to iams indoor proactive health.
Again, this has been going on since at the very least, Monday. Wednesday night I started to freak out and called the emergency vet. They advised that it probably wasn't necessary to bring her in since I had already scheduled an appointment with the regular vet for Thursday at noon.
We brought her in to the vet yesterday (3/26) and she ended up urinating FINALLY in her carrier right before they took her back to get blood work. Good that she did that, but not good because they were then unable to get a urine sample. Her temp was almost 105 F upon arrival at the office, but the doctor suspected that it could possibly be up due to stress.
So they gave her IV fluids, of course she was dehydrated. Ran a bunch of blood work, but everything has come back normal so far. They did send off some to an outside lab that hopefully we will have back today. They only thing that was out of the normal was an elevated white blood cell count. The Doctor is stumped and that is what is freaking me out right now. He sent her home with an anti-inflammatory as well as an antibiotic to try to be proactive while we are waiting for answers.
When we got her home yesterday, gave her a small bowl of water and she went to town drinking it! It made me so happy, but again, she hasn't gone to the bathroom or anything.
We were sent home with Critical Care soft food that she, apparently, loved and chowed down on yesterday while at the vet. I tried to give her some this morning and she wanted nothing to do with it. Same with water.
My baby is only 2 years old and this is ridiculous! I don't know what's wrong with her and I don't want to lose her. It's awful watching her lay in misery. Does anyone by chance have any ideas or had this kind of experience????