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My male cat is about 5 years old. He's had a heart murmur all his life. A 4 I believe. He's always been kinda "slow", lazy...not ever very playful. Not depressed...he just always seemed to have a "I'm cool and relaxed" type of personality.
I "adopted" him from a neighbor. For the first few weeks before I had him he was a partially outside cat, but ever since I had him, I kept him indoors. So he's always had an urge to go outside. This morning my fiance opened the front door. My cat (Johnny) heard the door open, jumped up and went to the door meowing and such. As normal. Only, his meow sounded like a cat who wants to mate and/or go outside. I'm not sure if theres a big difference, but my mother has a cat who always wants to go out, and he gets this belly meow. Johnny usually just does a whiny meow. But today he did that belly meow.
My fiance thinks its good to rough around with my cats because they probably like i, because all I ever do is baby them to death. Anyways. He picked up my cat super fast, kinda played around with him a bit. Then Johnny started to kinda scratch him (to hold on) and so my fiance kinda tossed/plopped him onto my bed. Johnny usually lands on his feet, then clumsily gallops away. But this time he landed in a laying down position. Then he started panting. He wouldnt move and he panted for a while. His heart was racing. I didn't know what was going on so I started freaking out. After him doing that for a few minutes..he eventually stopped, but still sat there. I kinda coaxed him to get up off the bed to see if his leg was hurt. He got down wearily, and went over to the food, slowly. He ate oddly...I moved the bowl because it was in the corner and he couldnt reach it that well. He just looked at where I moved the bowl to a few times, then kept eating the food that was on the floor. Then he went back over to the place he was before he ever got up, and laid down. I've been checking on him since then. He's sleeping now, and SEEMS okay, but if anything IS wrong and could happen I would just die.
I looked at a bunch of cat sites, and couldn't quite find anything that convinced me he was okay. So I figured people who can get every detail will be a much better help.
Does anyone have any ideas at all? Any help would be SO EXTREMELY appreciated. Thank you for taking the time to read this.
I "adopted" him from a neighbor. For the first few weeks before I had him he was a partially outside cat, but ever since I had him, I kept him indoors. So he's always had an urge to go outside. This morning my fiance opened the front door. My cat (Johnny) heard the door open, jumped up and went to the door meowing and such. As normal. Only, his meow sounded like a cat who wants to mate and/or go outside. I'm not sure if theres a big difference, but my mother has a cat who always wants to go out, and he gets this belly meow. Johnny usually just does a whiny meow. But today he did that belly meow.
My fiance thinks its good to rough around with my cats because they probably like i, because all I ever do is baby them to death. Anyways. He picked up my cat super fast, kinda played around with him a bit. Then Johnny started to kinda scratch him (to hold on) and so my fiance kinda tossed/plopped him onto my bed. Johnny usually lands on his feet, then clumsily gallops away. But this time he landed in a laying down position. Then he started panting. He wouldnt move and he panted for a while. His heart was racing. I didn't know what was going on so I started freaking out. After him doing that for a few minutes..he eventually stopped, but still sat there. I kinda coaxed him to get up off the bed to see if his leg was hurt. He got down wearily, and went over to the food, slowly. He ate oddly...I moved the bowl because it was in the corner and he couldnt reach it that well. He just looked at where I moved the bowl to a few times, then kept eating the food that was on the floor. Then he went back over to the place he was before he ever got up, and laid down. I've been checking on him since then. He's sleeping now, and SEEMS okay, but if anything IS wrong and could happen I would just die.
I looked at a bunch of cat sites, and couldn't quite find anything that convinced me he was okay. So I figured people who can get every detail will be a much better help.
Does anyone have any ideas at all? Any help would be SO EXTREMELY appreciated. Thank you for taking the time to read this.