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We had quite a scare with one of our cats and thought she was dying.. A few weeks ago we noticed we hadn't seen one of our cats out. When she finally came out she was walking really wobbly and kept falling down. She appeared, disoriented, confused and weak/lethargic. She kept falling down and could barely stand or walk on her own. When I'd pick her up to move her she'd violently kick her back legs. She wasn't taking food and drinking on her own so I had to feed her formula (glop) with a syringe and give her water or pedialyte. She ate soft food once the day after we discovered her condition but stopped eating again. We had to keep up on syringe feedings to get some kind of food and water in her.. As we were caring for her I observed her symptoms which included:
- Wobbly or drunken walk, loss of coordination
- Disorientation/Confusion
- Head tilting
- falling
- Leaning against furniture, obstacles to walk
- Walking around in circles
- Loud yowling vocalization
There were other symptoms noted as well. Upon searching the symptoms matched that of feline vestibular syndrome. Seeing as we had no way to a vet at the time I did frequent checkups on her, had to move her out from under furniture or place her out of harms way. I fed her formula as she would/could not eat on her own. We noticed her condition started improving and she made quite a turnaround. She's walking a lot better albeit still slightly wobbly and not back to 100% as she was. She's now back to eating and drinking on her own.
What we are concerned about is whether she is going to be permanently handicapped or is she going to recover completely? She has not recovered to the point she can run around or jump up on furniture. She's walking around better, a lot faster and without falling down but that's it. She's tried getting up on the couch with my mother but she can't quite get herself up.
Thanks.
- Wobbly or drunken walk, loss of coordination
- Disorientation/Confusion
- Head tilting
- falling
- Leaning against furniture, obstacles to walk
- Walking around in circles
- Loud yowling vocalization
There were other symptoms noted as well. Upon searching the symptoms matched that of feline vestibular syndrome. Seeing as we had no way to a vet at the time I did frequent checkups on her, had to move her out from under furniture or place her out of harms way. I fed her formula as she would/could not eat on her own. We noticed her condition started improving and she made quite a turnaround. She's walking a lot better albeit still slightly wobbly and not back to 100% as she was. She's now back to eating and drinking on her own.
What we are concerned about is whether she is going to be permanently handicapped or is she going to recover completely? She has not recovered to the point she can run around or jump up on furniture. She's walking around better, a lot faster and without falling down but that's it. She's tried getting up on the couch with my mother but she can't quite get herself up.
Thanks.