Greetings, we are having a medical mystery and we need your insights:
For the last 10 months we have been caring for a stray cat, just making sure she have food and water, she disappear maybe 7 months ago, reappear 3 month ago with 2 kittens (age weeks) and what we dubbed a son, a boy that is almost adult, we think 8 - 10 months old maybe (face looks older but he's small compared to the mother), after a while 1 kitten disappear, we assumed dead, but the three were always together, we never saw the mother fight with the son, and the kitten was sleeping on him and next to him no issues, then 1 month ago (20-24 October) we noticed the kitten is sick, face swollen, mouth dripping black stuff, and is bleeding from the mouth, smell is a nightmare, flies everywhere and not eating, we were told it might be calicivirus, we managed to catch her and got her to a vet, he said she has a bad infection and had to remove 13 of her baby teeth, and small part of the tongue on the side, and gave her antibiotics, also said it's not calicivirus since she responded to the antibiotics and is eating again and there is no lung problems, he thinks she might injured her mouth and it got infected, within days she was eating even dry food no problem, after 12 days she was discharged, we also managed to catch her mother and moved them to the beach away from the streets (we have beaches that is covered in greens and trees, and A LOT of cats live there, they are chubby and well taken care off, everyone feed them there. also lots of birds) but try as we might, we just could not catch the son, he kept running away from us and would not be lured with anything and will only eats the food we leave him of we leave.
Skip forward to 3 days ago, we notice that the son's face is swollen, mouth bleeding, drooling, not eating, and even not drinking the milk we left him (lactos free since he wasn't eating we thought milk would give some energy) again we tried catching him but couldn't, we found him dead today, we buried him and disinfect the backyard as much as possible (we have two cats at home, one of them still didn't have her rabies shot yet, i have to wait 1 more week, and fear anything tracking back inside)
Could anyone guess what happened to these two? I don't think that was an injury, it has to be something contagious, right?
images of both of them before sickness and after they've gotten sick
appreciate any help
For the last 10 months we have been caring for a stray cat, just making sure she have food and water, she disappear maybe 7 months ago, reappear 3 month ago with 2 kittens (age weeks) and what we dubbed a son, a boy that is almost adult, we think 8 - 10 months old maybe (face looks older but he's small compared to the mother), after a while 1 kitten disappear, we assumed dead, but the three were always together, we never saw the mother fight with the son, and the kitten was sleeping on him and next to him no issues, then 1 month ago (20-24 October) we noticed the kitten is sick, face swollen, mouth dripping black stuff, and is bleeding from the mouth, smell is a nightmare, flies everywhere and not eating, we were told it might be calicivirus, we managed to catch her and got her to a vet, he said she has a bad infection and had to remove 13 of her baby teeth, and small part of the tongue on the side, and gave her antibiotics, also said it's not calicivirus since she responded to the antibiotics and is eating again and there is no lung problems, he thinks she might injured her mouth and it got infected, within days she was eating even dry food no problem, after 12 days she was discharged, we also managed to catch her mother and moved them to the beach away from the streets (we have beaches that is covered in greens and trees, and A LOT of cats live there, they are chubby and well taken care off, everyone feed them there. also lots of birds) but try as we might, we just could not catch the son, he kept running away from us and would not be lured with anything and will only eats the food we leave him of we leave.
Skip forward to 3 days ago, we notice that the son's face is swollen, mouth bleeding, drooling, not eating, and even not drinking the milk we left him (lactos free since he wasn't eating we thought milk would give some energy) again we tried catching him but couldn't, we found him dead today, we buried him and disinfect the backyard as much as possible (we have two cats at home, one of them still didn't have her rabies shot yet, i have to wait 1 more week, and fear anything tracking back inside)
Could anyone guess what happened to these two? I don't think that was an injury, it has to be something contagious, right?
images of both of them before sickness and after they've gotten sick
appreciate any help
