Hello everyone,
Some time yesterday my three year old cat became listless, not eating or drinking, not grooming and began vomiting. I noticed it at around 6:30 pm when I came home. He was clearly dehydrated, so I sat up with him giving him water by syringe. This am, he peed but only a little, and it seems to be an effort. He won't drink or eat. I got him into the vet this am, and drove down on my lunch to check in with him. Here's what the vet says:
It doesn't look good. Kitty has a low temperature (abnormally low). Clear breathe sounds on the right, but muffled on the left. Bladder felt empty. Due to financial constraints, I couldn't afford the full spectrum of tests but we agreed to:
rehydrate kitty through sub-q fluids
draw urine
run urine analysis
Vet suspects that this will be kidney failure due to the vomiting/licking lips, lethary/listlessness, straining to urinate this am, very dehydrated and mostly the low temp is not a good sign. What else could this be?
I guess I want to know if anyone else had these symptoms with their cat, and how things turned out, whether or not I should be preparing myself for euthanasia? When the vet says "it doesn't look good", does this mean things are really dark for my boy Jacob? Basically, I need some assurance that I've done the right thing, and what I might be facing here.
Jill
Some time yesterday my three year old cat became listless, not eating or drinking, not grooming and began vomiting. I noticed it at around 6:30 pm when I came home. He was clearly dehydrated, so I sat up with him giving him water by syringe. This am, he peed but only a little, and it seems to be an effort. He won't drink or eat. I got him into the vet this am, and drove down on my lunch to check in with him. Here's what the vet says:
It doesn't look good. Kitty has a low temperature (abnormally low). Clear breathe sounds on the right, but muffled on the left. Bladder felt empty. Due to financial constraints, I couldn't afford the full spectrum of tests but we agreed to:
rehydrate kitty through sub-q fluids
draw urine
run urine analysis
Vet suspects that this will be kidney failure due to the vomiting/licking lips, lethary/listlessness, straining to urinate this am, very dehydrated and mostly the low temp is not a good sign. What else could this be?
I guess I want to know if anyone else had these symptoms with their cat, and how things turned out, whether or not I should be preparing myself for euthanasia? When the vet says "it doesn't look good", does this mean things are really dark for my boy Jacob? Basically, I need some assurance that I've done the right thing, and what I might be facing here.
Jill