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Hi everyone - I have a sweet 6-year-old female kitty who has been queen bee (only kitty) with us since she was a kitten. We decided to adopt a 7-month-old female kitty and brought her home from a shelter Friday night. New kitty is currently confined to the master bathroom. New kitty came with a kitty cold (URI), some vomiting and diarrhea, and some fleas.
Resident kitty vomited three times on Monday, not at all on Tuesday, and then four times today. The first vomit looked pretty normal for her, including some partially digested food. Subsequent vomitings were more liquidy/foamy and today they were all green/yellow or orange/yellow. She ate a little bit of her kibble this morning but definitely nothing this evening. She half-heartedly ate a treat this afternoon. She will play with us a bit, and if she weren't vomiting, her behavior would fall in the range of normal.
I called the vet and they made an appointment for us tomorrow afternoon. I'm just wondering if it could be stress over the new kitty or if she could possibly have picked up a bug from the new kitty, since I saw a fair amount of liquidy vomit from that kitty initially as well. The difference there is that new kitty was still eating and drinking normally and resident kitty has a loss of appetite. We've kept the cats separated, but new kitty did dart out a few times and the cats accidentally saw each other face to face. The first vomiting for resident kitty happened before that, though. But I wonder if we could have spread something when we forgot to wash our hands a couple of times between kitties. The lady at the shelter said vomiting in cats isn't usually contagious, but some things I've read online seem to indicate something different.
I'd love some advice on the whole situation if anyone has any. I'm worried about my resident kitty and really don't want to put her through the trauma of a vet visit with lots of tests if she might possibly recover well at home. It just seems too coincidental for her to have a serious issue right after the new kitty comes home when she's always been healthy before. But I don't know how long I can safely watch and wait. Thank you!
Sorry, I realize I cannot ask for specific medical advice regarding my kitties. I guess I'm just wondering if anyone else has experienced something like this after bringing home a new kitty, even if the cats are still (mostly) separated. And in general, is it theoretically possible a new kitty could pass on a vomiting bug to a resident kitty?
Resident kitty vomited three times on Monday, not at all on Tuesday, and then four times today. The first vomit looked pretty normal for her, including some partially digested food. Subsequent vomitings were more liquidy/foamy and today they were all green/yellow or orange/yellow. She ate a little bit of her kibble this morning but definitely nothing this evening. She half-heartedly ate a treat this afternoon. She will play with us a bit, and if she weren't vomiting, her behavior would fall in the range of normal.
I called the vet and they made an appointment for us tomorrow afternoon. I'm just wondering if it could be stress over the new kitty or if she could possibly have picked up a bug from the new kitty, since I saw a fair amount of liquidy vomit from that kitty initially as well. The difference there is that new kitty was still eating and drinking normally and resident kitty has a loss of appetite. We've kept the cats separated, but new kitty did dart out a few times and the cats accidentally saw each other face to face. The first vomiting for resident kitty happened before that, though. But I wonder if we could have spread something when we forgot to wash our hands a couple of times between kitties. The lady at the shelter said vomiting in cats isn't usually contagious, but some things I've read online seem to indicate something different.
I'd love some advice on the whole situation if anyone has any. I'm worried about my resident kitty and really don't want to put her through the trauma of a vet visit with lots of tests if she might possibly recover well at home. It just seems too coincidental for her to have a serious issue right after the new kitty comes home when she's always been healthy before. But I don't know how long I can safely watch and wait. Thank you!
Sorry, I realize I cannot ask for specific medical advice regarding my kitties. I guess I'm just wondering if anyone else has experienced something like this after bringing home a new kitty, even if the cats are still (mostly) separated. And in general, is it theoretically possible a new kitty could pass on a vomiting bug to a resident kitty?