I am new here and we have two older cats of our own. Just recently, my mother is a real estate agent and found a kitten in a basement window well. My wife and I decided to adopt it into our family. The kitten - Albie was taken to the vet in Thursday enveing and was dewormed, had Felocell CVR (intranasal) vaccine and had feline Leuk/AIDS/Heartworm SNA done. The vet said that the kitten was in good health. We picked up Albie from my parents home on Friday enveing. At this point Albie would not eat solids and was urinating outside of the litter box. We provided a small heating pad, toys, blankets, an entire buffet of different foods/water, litter box and a decent size cage. Albie would still not eat, nor play or really move around like a normal kitten would. We fed him a mixture of purried food (tried differen brands) through an eye dropper and he wasn't really interested. I called the vet and they told us that he was like this due to an adjustment period. On Monday evening he started breathing very rapidly, lethargic and meowing. We rushed him to the emergency clinic where they performed a battery of tests and concluded that it was FIP. Several hours later he was non responsive and we made the decesion based on the vet's advice to put him down.
The questions I have is my wife and I are extremely upset for the past couple of days becase we feel that we could have done more or something different. We also feel that it may have not been FIP, but possibly the vaccines. Also, he wasn't around our other cats much just to smell each other a few times. They were not sharing litter boxes or food bowls and there wasn't any direct contact such as grooming or playing - so were wondering what the potential impact on our cats is/was. They are both normal as of today.
My wife and I are besides ourselves. It's amazing that a little creature that was in our lives for such a short period of time can have such a big impact.
Thank you,
Paul
The questions I have is my wife and I are extremely upset for the past couple of days becase we feel that we could have done more or something different. We also feel that it may have not been FIP, but possibly the vaccines. Also, he wasn't around our other cats much just to smell each other a few times. They were not sharing litter boxes or food bowls and there wasn't any direct contact such as grooming or playing - so were wondering what the potential impact on our cats is/was. They are both normal as of today.
My wife and I are besides ourselves. It's amazing that a little creature that was in our lives for such a short period of time can have such a big impact.
Thank you,
Paul