Hi there,
I'm new to this forum. I'm from the Netherlands and I need some help because the vets here simply do not seem to know what my cat has and keep trying different meds but nothing helps and everytime I get a big bill for the wrong treatment.
Okay so I have a male cat who is now 20 months old.
We have 6 cats and he was fine until last September so he was then about 15 months, we had 3 cats back then. We had rescued 3 kittens from Cyprus that almost died in April last year and adopted them. They had to stay another 4 months to get their shots, chip etc until they were old enough to fly to the Netherlands.
When we got the 3 new cats, they mixed fine with the other 3 by the way, the symptoms started with this one cat. He was coughing a lot and kept swallowing so I figured he has a hairball stuck which he can't get rid off so I used hairball medication but that didn't help. The coughing stopped after 2 weeks. Then I noticed he had a scratch on his head with a strange bald spot. Went to the vet who didn't know what it was but it looked like ringworm to me (none of the other cats had this). Treated him for that but no result, if I treated one place, it would pop up somewhere else. This went on for about 2 or 3 months. Went to the vet 2 or 3 times as he still didn't seem to recover. In the meantime he got really quiet, didn't eat much anymore and didn't play anymore so I figured something is wrong still. Vet gave me painkillers and anti inflammatory meds but no result The spots went away after a couple of months but his fur isn't the same anymore. He now has dandruff. I still notice he has swolen glands in his neck, he still does this swallowing every few minutes, still barely eats, lost a lot of weight and has dandruff. Furthermore he seems down and depressed.
At one point I also noticed that he had peed on the litterbox and had some blood droplets after that. That happened twice, this was end of October or beginning of November, didn't happen more than twice.
First I thought he got something from these small kittens (which still might be the case because 2 of them had severe sneezing disease before they came over. One of them lost an eye because of that and the other has very poor vision, has herpes in 1 eye (which is under control) and has a white blister on his other eye. I also thought that maybe it had to do with jealousy as we of course had to give these new cats more attention but even by giving him more again, no change.
Apologies for the long story but I'm really worried about my cat.
I thought it could be a fungus so I treated him for that but no result, I treated him for worms and flees but also no result. Tried different types of food because he doesn't eat most of the time, no result.
Does anybody have an idea what this could be? I'm sick and tired of these vets just looking for 2 minutes and just sending me home with something that doesn't work and costs a lot. He has not been well for 5 months now and I feel so sorry for him.
Thanks in advance for your time.
David
I'm new to this forum. I'm from the Netherlands and I need some help because the vets here simply do not seem to know what my cat has and keep trying different meds but nothing helps and everytime I get a big bill for the wrong treatment.
Okay so I have a male cat who is now 20 months old.
We have 6 cats and he was fine until last September so he was then about 15 months, we had 3 cats back then. We had rescued 3 kittens from Cyprus that almost died in April last year and adopted them. They had to stay another 4 months to get their shots, chip etc until they were old enough to fly to the Netherlands.
When we got the 3 new cats, they mixed fine with the other 3 by the way, the symptoms started with this one cat. He was coughing a lot and kept swallowing so I figured he has a hairball stuck which he can't get rid off so I used hairball medication but that didn't help. The coughing stopped after 2 weeks. Then I noticed he had a scratch on his head with a strange bald spot. Went to the vet who didn't know what it was but it looked like ringworm to me (none of the other cats had this). Treated him for that but no result, if I treated one place, it would pop up somewhere else. This went on for about 2 or 3 months. Went to the vet 2 or 3 times as he still didn't seem to recover. In the meantime he got really quiet, didn't eat much anymore and didn't play anymore so I figured something is wrong still. Vet gave me painkillers and anti inflammatory meds but no result The spots went away after a couple of months but his fur isn't the same anymore. He now has dandruff. I still notice he has swolen glands in his neck, he still does this swallowing every few minutes, still barely eats, lost a lot of weight and has dandruff. Furthermore he seems down and depressed.
At one point I also noticed that he had peed on the litterbox and had some blood droplets after that. That happened twice, this was end of October or beginning of November, didn't happen more than twice.
First I thought he got something from these small kittens (which still might be the case because 2 of them had severe sneezing disease before they came over. One of them lost an eye because of that and the other has very poor vision, has herpes in 1 eye (which is under control) and has a white blister on his other eye. I also thought that maybe it had to do with jealousy as we of course had to give these new cats more attention but even by giving him more again, no change.
Apologies for the long story but I'm really worried about my cat.
I thought it could be a fungus so I treated him for that but no result, I treated him for worms and flees but also no result. Tried different types of food because he doesn't eat most of the time, no result.
Does anybody have an idea what this could be? I'm sick and tired of these vets just looking for 2 minutes and just sending me home with something that doesn't work and costs a lot. He has not been well for 5 months now and I feel so sorry for him.
Thanks in advance for your time.
David