My adult cat had a heart murmur during his annual wellness check. We took him back in two weeks later (yesterday) for a recheck and he still has a grade 2 heart murmur.
My husband and I are trying not to freak out. He's going for a consult with a cardiologist which is going to run us $720 but not until Novemeber. So we have a whole month to worry about what's going on. The concern is that he did not have a heart murmur half a year ago when he had his shots renewed and never had a heart murmur during our time with him. So while it's not a high grade murmur it's the newness of it that is worrisome.
Our cat is 6 or 7- best guess. He was a stray that we took in 5 years ago.
We will get the cat vetted no matter as we always do but while we wait for that November appointment we are so worried. The vet office we go to is a multi-practice so we had one vet talk to us on his wellness visit and another for the recheck but we did not get a feel for what could cause a 6 or 7 year old cat to develop a murmur out of the blue. During yesterday's visit he did say that now that he's been rechecked and still had the murmur it wasn't something we could ignore- even though plenty of cats have heart murmurs that never cause complications. So that was comforting but he seemed "alarmed" in a veterinary calm way that the murmur "came about out of nowhere".
My husband and I are trying not to freak out. He's going for a consult with a cardiologist which is going to run us $720 but not until Novemeber. So we have a whole month to worry about what's going on. The concern is that he did not have a heart murmur half a year ago when he had his shots renewed and never had a heart murmur during our time with him. So while it's not a high grade murmur it's the newness of it that is worrisome.
Our cat is 6 or 7- best guess. He was a stray that we took in 5 years ago.
We will get the cat vetted no matter as we always do but while we wait for that November appointment we are so worried. The vet office we go to is a multi-practice so we had one vet talk to us on his wellness visit and another for the recheck but we did not get a feel for what could cause a 6 or 7 year old cat to develop a murmur out of the blue. During yesterday's visit he did say that now that he's been rechecked and still had the murmur it wasn't something we could ignore- even though plenty of cats have heart murmurs that never cause complications. So that was comforting but he seemed "alarmed" in a veterinary calm way that the murmur "came about out of nowhere".