Hello
So, from the beginning, my boyfriend adopted a young cat (7-8 months) from a shelter, they gave us paperwork that he was all good and a free vet visit.
Next day, we go to the vet and it seems like he is indeed perfectly healthy.
Couple days pass and we hear him sneeze here and there but we assume it’s from his litter being very dusty, so we changed it it to a better brand. He kept sneezing and at this point he would have hard boogies on his nose.
Ater a couple of weeks since we initially had him, we take him to the vet again and we express our concerns, they ask if he’s eating and drinking (yes, he loves food) and if he’s active (very much so). So they suspect it’s an upper respiratory and that at some point in his life he might’ve caught cat herpes.
They prescribed amoxicillin, an oral steroid and eye drops for 7 days.
About 5 to 6 days into his treatment (and yes we have given it correctly and on time) he got dramatically worse, wouldn’t eat, drink and his small sneezes turned into choking/struggle to breathing. His eyes would barely open and he was leaking mucus from his right eye.
We went back to the vet and they said they wanted to do X-rays to make sure he didn’t have asthma. Test came up negative and they prescribed an even stronger anti biotic which we need to give for 16 days.
He look’s miserable, should I get a second opinion here?
So, from the beginning, my boyfriend adopted a young cat (7-8 months) from a shelter, they gave us paperwork that he was all good and a free vet visit.
Next day, we go to the vet and it seems like he is indeed perfectly healthy.
Couple days pass and we hear him sneeze here and there but we assume it’s from his litter being very dusty, so we changed it it to a better brand. He kept sneezing and at this point he would have hard boogies on his nose.
Ater a couple of weeks since we initially had him, we take him to the vet again and we express our concerns, they ask if he’s eating and drinking (yes, he loves food) and if he’s active (very much so). So they suspect it’s an upper respiratory and that at some point in his life he might’ve caught cat herpes.
They prescribed amoxicillin, an oral steroid and eye drops for 7 days.
About 5 to 6 days into his treatment (and yes we have given it correctly and on time) he got dramatically worse, wouldn’t eat, drink and his small sneezes turned into choking/struggle to breathing. His eyes would barely open and he was leaking mucus from his right eye.
We went back to the vet and they said they wanted to do X-rays to make sure he didn’t have asthma. Test came up negative and they prescribed an even stronger anti biotic which we need to give for 16 days.
He look’s miserable, should I get a second opinion here?