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Hi folks! It's been several years since people on this site helped me to address a series of illnesses suffered by my previous generation of cat pals.
I finally recovered from the years, dollars, tears spent caring and saying good-bye to 3 chronically ill kitties, and am enjoying the company of a new generation: 6 year old brother and sister adopted 5 years ago. This issue now is the sister has developed a cough. At first, a few weeks ago, it was one episode and done, and she didn't cough again for a week or more. In the last couple of weeks she is coughing once or twice a day. I can hear kind of a rattle, there is mucus that wants to be cleared. She coughs, she clears it and she's good. Eating, drinking, playing, social, all the good things. But that cough/congestion -
Called the vet this a.m., and they said they are so overburdened by too many appointments and not enough staff they are not booking ANY appointments, not even emergencies, until late October. Basically said, either take your cat to an emergency care clinic or call around to see if any other vets will see the cat.
ALL vets I called are having the same experience, NO vets are taking any new patients. Wow, I had no idea, I've taken pets to this clinic for 25 years, and they were like, sorry no dice. So it seems I'll have to drive this skittish cat who is easily spooked more than one hour, one way to an urgent care facility. They don't even take appointments, you just line up and they take the sickest animals first, which sounds just awful. There is a heat advisory in my area, I just can't put the cat in a car during this heat and subject her to that scenario, since her situation requires attention but is not urgent. What a mess.
Does anyone have experience with a cat who occasionally coughs to clear mucus? Thanks, Laura
I finally recovered from the years, dollars, tears spent caring and saying good-bye to 3 chronically ill kitties, and am enjoying the company of a new generation: 6 year old brother and sister adopted 5 years ago. This issue now is the sister has developed a cough. At first, a few weeks ago, it was one episode and done, and she didn't cough again for a week or more. In the last couple of weeks she is coughing once or twice a day. I can hear kind of a rattle, there is mucus that wants to be cleared. She coughs, she clears it and she's good. Eating, drinking, playing, social, all the good things. But that cough/congestion -
Called the vet this a.m., and they said they are so overburdened by too many appointments and not enough staff they are not booking ANY appointments, not even emergencies, until late October. Basically said, either take your cat to an emergency care clinic or call around to see if any other vets will see the cat.
ALL vets I called are having the same experience, NO vets are taking any new patients. Wow, I had no idea, I've taken pets to this clinic for 25 years, and they were like, sorry no dice. So it seems I'll have to drive this skittish cat who is easily spooked more than one hour, one way to an urgent care facility. They don't even take appointments, you just line up and they take the sickest animals first, which sounds just awful. There is a heat advisory in my area, I just can't put the cat in a car during this heat and subject her to that scenario, since her situation requires attention but is not urgent. What a mess.
Does anyone have experience with a cat who occasionally coughs to clear mucus? Thanks, Laura