Hello,
Our cat Buttercup has been extremely lethargic and sickly the past 6 days...
On Monday night we noticed that she hadn't moved all day. On Tuesday and Wednesday this continued, and we realized that she had been sleeping in the same spot all day while we were at work. Then we noticed that she wasn't eating. Her nose was dry and warm and so were her paws and ears. We brought water to her on the bed and she drank it, but remained lethargic and wouldn't go to her food bowl and eat. After a few days my husband started taking her to her food bowl and she did eat a little... more so today (Sunday) than all week. Her nose is cool and moist again, but she seems to be having problems moving around, she can walk from the bed to the living room, but she doesn't do much more than that. And, even when she turns around to a new position while lounging, she seems to have problems with her back section. She is tentative when we pick her up, and meows. There is no outward sign of injury, but I think the problem seems to be related to not wanting to move.
Normally, in Canada, we would have rushed her off to the vet, but we are in South Korea. We do have a vet here, but he is a novice concerning cats, we were lucky to even find a vet who would take her in a country whose people do not ordinarily keep cats as pets and where many regard cats as "evil" and "vermin". He speaks a little english, but we don't have much confidence in him. That being said, we are taking her to visit him tomorrow. Is there anything specific we should ask him to do? An X Ray perhaps? He did give her a set of vaccinations 3 weeks ago (rabies and a few others). Could this be a reaction to that? She was fine right up until Sunday, even our co-teacher noticed the difference between her behaviour on Sunday and Thursday.
Posing another problem, we are moving to Thailand in two weeks and we have to take her with us. We have been here for a year, with very few problems so there is no issue with residual trauma from travelling. She did have a condition on her paws in the summer, which he treated twice and managed to clear up. At that time he suggested we switch from Royal Canin Dry food to another brand that would deal with allergies. It was Hills Science Diet and we bought it, but did not feed much of it to her as we didn't like the amount of corn content and preservatives. However, lately, we mixed the two together. As soon as we noticed something was wrong we switched back to pure Royal Canin, which is the best available brand here.
What could this be? Could the addition of the Hill's cat food have caused her sickness? Any advice would be appreciated, especially specific things we should ask this vet to look for. He has only treated 3 cats and she is one of them.
Our cat Buttercup has been extremely lethargic and sickly the past 6 days...
On Monday night we noticed that she hadn't moved all day. On Tuesday and Wednesday this continued, and we realized that she had been sleeping in the same spot all day while we were at work. Then we noticed that she wasn't eating. Her nose was dry and warm and so were her paws and ears. We brought water to her on the bed and she drank it, but remained lethargic and wouldn't go to her food bowl and eat. After a few days my husband started taking her to her food bowl and she did eat a little... more so today (Sunday) than all week. Her nose is cool and moist again, but she seems to be having problems moving around, she can walk from the bed to the living room, but she doesn't do much more than that. And, even when she turns around to a new position while lounging, she seems to have problems with her back section. She is tentative when we pick her up, and meows. There is no outward sign of injury, but I think the problem seems to be related to not wanting to move.
Normally, in Canada, we would have rushed her off to the vet, but we are in South Korea. We do have a vet here, but he is a novice concerning cats, we were lucky to even find a vet who would take her in a country whose people do not ordinarily keep cats as pets and where many regard cats as "evil" and "vermin". He speaks a little english, but we don't have much confidence in him. That being said, we are taking her to visit him tomorrow. Is there anything specific we should ask him to do? An X Ray perhaps? He did give her a set of vaccinations 3 weeks ago (rabies and a few others). Could this be a reaction to that? She was fine right up until Sunday, even our co-teacher noticed the difference between her behaviour on Sunday and Thursday.
Posing another problem, we are moving to Thailand in two weeks and we have to take her with us. We have been here for a year, with very few problems so there is no issue with residual trauma from travelling. She did have a condition on her paws in the summer, which he treated twice and managed to clear up. At that time he suggested we switch from Royal Canin Dry food to another brand that would deal with allergies. It was Hills Science Diet and we bought it, but did not feed much of it to her as we didn't like the amount of corn content and preservatives. However, lately, we mixed the two together. As soon as we noticed something was wrong we switched back to pure Royal Canin, which is the best available brand here.
What could this be? Could the addition of the Hill's cat food have caused her sickness? Any advice would be appreciated, especially specific things we should ask this vet to look for. He has only treated 3 cats and she is one of them.