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I purchased a healthy Persian kitten in December from a very reputable breeder in Washington State. This weekend I brought my kitty (Ashley) and went back to visit her.
I have been thinking about getting Ashley a playmate for when i'm gone at work all day and I agreed to take one of her new kittens that has had a cold off and on through its life - it is about 14 weeks old. The kitten eats very well,(had a full, bit of a bloated belly), drinks well and plays just as much as the other cats, even though she is a bit of a "runt" she doesn't seem to have any problems - but she sneezes and gets a stuffy, runny nose, you can hear her breathing sometimes.
While I was there, the breeder gave the kitty nose drops and she sneezed 4 or 5 times and that seemed the clear her nose.
The breeder is going to provide me with antibiotics and will be nebulizing the kitten this week until I pick her up next Saturday.
My question to you is - do you think this kitten will pass on this cold to my other Persian who is perfectly healthy?
The breeder has not isolated the sick kitten at all and lets it run freely with the other cats in her cattery (there are probably 30-40 cats there). She said she hasn't noticed it in any of the other cats, and that sometimes these things just happen.
The breeder also mentioned that perhaps this kitty just has a weaker immune system - she didn't push me to take this kitten at all, I chose her out of a bunch of other, healthy kittens because of her demeanor and her cute face & eye shape. I guess I felt like if I could give her my full attention and her medications regularly, she could get better - more so than the breeder could do with several cats to look after.
Any insight into this would be appreciated...
Thank you.
Adrienne
I purchased a healthy Persian kitten in December from a very reputable breeder in Washington State. This weekend I brought my kitty (Ashley) and went back to visit her.
I have been thinking about getting Ashley a playmate for when i'm gone at work all day and I agreed to take one of her new kittens that has had a cold off and on through its life - it is about 14 weeks old. The kitten eats very well,(had a full, bit of a bloated belly), drinks well and plays just as much as the other cats, even though she is a bit of a "runt" she doesn't seem to have any problems - but she sneezes and gets a stuffy, runny nose, you can hear her breathing sometimes.
While I was there, the breeder gave the kitty nose drops and she sneezed 4 or 5 times and that seemed the clear her nose.
The breeder is going to provide me with antibiotics and will be nebulizing the kitten this week until I pick her up next Saturday.
My question to you is - do you think this kitten will pass on this cold to my other Persian who is perfectly healthy?
The breeder has not isolated the sick kitten at all and lets it run freely with the other cats in her cattery (there are probably 30-40 cats there). She said she hasn't noticed it in any of the other cats, and that sometimes these things just happen.
The breeder also mentioned that perhaps this kitty just has a weaker immune system - she didn't push me to take this kitten at all, I chose her out of a bunch of other, healthy kittens because of her demeanor and her cute face & eye shape. I guess I felt like if I could give her my full attention and her medications regularly, she could get better - more so than the breeder could do with several cats to look after.
Any insight into this would be appreciated...
Thank you.
Adrienne