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the loose and runny stools have cleared up - and that coat is growing back nicely... sort of... she is very itchy. The shelter may have run fecal tests, but our vet, that I am aware of, has not.
Food. She is currenlty on Max Cat chunks wet food twice a day, we put out dry food every day for on demand feeding, but we have not yet found any she will eat. We are not sure if that is because of the tooth or if she just doen't like dry food. It is difficult to mess with her diet because she is a very picky eater and will refuse to eat, and if she gets hungry enough to eat something she has refused, she will frequently throw it up right beside the dish while she is eating, or in the hallway leaving the kitchen (where she eats). (or by the litter box if she makes it that far). When she is not sick with respiratory/sinus infection, she has been gaining weight and filling out nicely. Her top weight has been 7.5 lbs that we are aware of, but she looked good at it.
She just had a complete blood work up last week followed by a covenia injection. She perked up for two days after the injection, but then started going back down hill. She has a follow-up tomorrow. I believe her upper respiratory is better, and she has been having bouts of playfulness (when well, she is very energetic and playfull... very actobatic when playing with toys and positively crazy about laser lights and stalking anything that ventures onto our balcony). But when she is ill, she gets positively drained of energy. Two different cats when she is feeling good or not...
I think her upper respiratory is better... but the itchiness is worse... and to top it off, a couple days ago we found that she, and our other cat, did have fleas. Both cats were treated, and the fleas are gone, but she is still itching like crazy and biting like she still has fleas... yesterday my daughter shaved a portion of her tail and the skin beneath is red, scaly and very irritated looking. It is so hard to give her anything becase like with her issues now, we treated fleas, and we don't see anymore fleas, but the itchy is worse. Is the itchy worse because she has fleas we don't see? was she allergic to the flea medicine? the bath was supposed to help with the itchy, did it make it worse? Is it a reaction to the medicine? Is there a connection with the itcy and the L-lysine? I just don't know. Until we are able to figure out what is making it worse, I am scared to keep trying new things because I feel like it just makes it harder to pin down the culprit.
I think at the follow-up my daughter is going to show the vet the patch she shaved and maybe he will do a skin test...I think its awesome there are so many tests that can be run, but honestly we just cannot keep up with the medical bills for this cat. Its going to require a second job and is really just a little more than we bargained for. Our vet bills for our last cat got to be pretty hefty with renal failure, but we had that cat for 19 years, and she enjoyed good health for 17 of them. This cat has yet to really enjoy more than a few weeks of good health at a time, and not sure if we can keep up the bills for another 6 months, let alone 16 years.
Food. She is currenlty on Max Cat chunks wet food twice a day, we put out dry food every day for on demand feeding, but we have not yet found any she will eat. We are not sure if that is because of the tooth or if she just doen't like dry food. It is difficult to mess with her diet because she is a very picky eater and will refuse to eat, and if she gets hungry enough to eat something she has refused, she will frequently throw it up right beside the dish while she is eating, or in the hallway leaving the kitchen (where she eats). (or by the litter box if she makes it that far). When she is not sick with respiratory/sinus infection, she has been gaining weight and filling out nicely. Her top weight has been 7.5 lbs that we are aware of, but she looked good at it.
She just had a complete blood work up last week followed by a covenia injection. She perked up for two days after the injection, but then started going back down hill. She has a follow-up tomorrow. I believe her upper respiratory is better, and she has been having bouts of playfulness (when well, she is very energetic and playfull... very actobatic when playing with toys and positively crazy about laser lights and stalking anything that ventures onto our balcony). But when she is ill, she gets positively drained of energy. Two different cats when she is feeling good or not...
I think her upper respiratory is better... but the itchiness is worse... and to top it off, a couple days ago we found that she, and our other cat, did have fleas. Both cats were treated, and the fleas are gone, but she is still itching like crazy and biting like she still has fleas... yesterday my daughter shaved a portion of her tail and the skin beneath is red, scaly and very irritated looking. It is so hard to give her anything becase like with her issues now, we treated fleas, and we don't see anymore fleas, but the itchy is worse. Is the itchy worse because she has fleas we don't see? was she allergic to the flea medicine? the bath was supposed to help with the itchy, did it make it worse? Is it a reaction to the medicine? Is there a connection with the itcy and the L-lysine? I just don't know. Until we are able to figure out what is making it worse, I am scared to keep trying new things because I feel like it just makes it harder to pin down the culprit.
I think at the follow-up my daughter is going to show the vet the patch she shaved and maybe he will do a skin test...I think its awesome there are so many tests that can be run, but honestly we just cannot keep up with the medical bills for this cat. Its going to require a second job and is really just a little more than we bargained for. Our vet bills for our last cat got to be pretty hefty with renal failure, but we had that cat for 19 years, and she enjoyed good health for 17 of them. This cat has yet to really enjoy more than a few weeks of good health at a time, and not sure if we can keep up the bills for another 6 months, let alone 16 years.
