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My current foster cat has also been diagnosed with pseudomonas aeruginosa after his discharge was analyzed by culture. He was put on azithromycin followed by two rounds of convenia injection and is now on zenaquin. None of these has helped in the slightest. Its been 3 months since I first started fostering him and treating him.
His symptoms include sneezing, wheezing when he breathes, coughing and spewing mucus from his nose. He is othwise bright and active with good appetite and very playful. He is however morbidly obese at 22 pounds. His previous owner clearly overfed him to the extreme. He gets out of breath quickly when he plays due to both the illness and the obesity.
I have been keeping him in quaratine in my large master bathroom and have tried to give him as much stimulation as possible including putting a three level climbing tree in there along with lots of toys, beds, plug in kitty pheramones, leaving the radio on, etc.
I have two of my own cats who have thankfully not caught the illness. I wash my hands and change clothes after handling the foster (Tomtom). My vet says the chance of contagion is very low unless the other animal or person has a compromised immune system so I am not worried about that. What does worry me is Tomtom's future. No one will want to adopt a chronically ill cat and I can't risk having him interact closely with my own cats or I would just keep him myself. And it is no life for a cat to spend his lifespan locked in a bathroom. He's only 3.
Anyone have any long term experience with this illness? I'm at my wit's end.
His symptoms include sneezing, wheezing when he breathes, coughing and spewing mucus from his nose. He is othwise bright and active with good appetite and very playful. He is however morbidly obese at 22 pounds. His previous owner clearly overfed him to the extreme. He gets out of breath quickly when he plays due to both the illness and the obesity.
I have been keeping him in quaratine in my large master bathroom and have tried to give him as much stimulation as possible including putting a three level climbing tree in there along with lots of toys, beds, plug in kitty pheramones, leaving the radio on, etc.
I have two of my own cats who have thankfully not caught the illness. I wash my hands and change clothes after handling the foster (Tomtom). My vet says the chance of contagion is very low unless the other animal or person has a compromised immune system so I am not worried about that. What does worry me is Tomtom's future. No one will want to adopt a chronically ill cat and I can't risk having him interact closely with my own cats or I would just keep him myself. And it is no life for a cat to spend his lifespan locked in a bathroom. He's only 3.
Anyone have any long term experience with this illness? I'm at my wit's end.