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Thank you to who reads and responds, I'm happy I found this site and hope someone might have some ideas!
A little background. Sam is about 12-13 years old (was a stray when I adopted him). He's a big (not overweight!) 18 pound black cat. He's been in perfect health since I've had him. He's strictly indoors and has 3 other cat friends in the household who also stay inside with him.
My cats were playing this evening, and Sam came staggering into the room and just kept backing up. I thought he was just playing around, but he couldn't stop. I looked him over to see if he had something in/on his paw or something, but nothing acted like it hurt him. He just acted like he couldn't keep steady on his back legs, but primarily his left side. I took him to the vet immediately and they took his blood pressure, which they said was normal but should have been higher for being at the vet and being stressed. He was also breathing rather heavy there, but when he was at home he was perfectly fine. They took blood work and everything was great. They did mention that his white blood count was a little off, but that could be caused by about 100 things. So I suppose we start testing for those things tomorrow.
He got home and started licking his wound from the blood draw and his bottom from getting his temp taken, but never his legs. He doesn't seem to be in pain when I feel around on him either, so I really don't think it's a pain issue. He went to eat his dinner and smell another cat, so he will walk but will wobble and stagger his way there. Again, back legs only.
Has anyone heard of this happening? They put him on cardiokinase incase he has a bloodclot. They mentioned a stroke, but want to start testing for more things first.
Also, I don't know if this could have anything to do with anything... but he has been caterwauling every night lately. He would do it once in a while, but the last two weeks it has been almost every night. He seems perfect and normal in every other way.
Thank you so much for your replies!
A little background. Sam is about 12-13 years old (was a stray when I adopted him). He's a big (not overweight!) 18 pound black cat. He's been in perfect health since I've had him. He's strictly indoors and has 3 other cat friends in the household who also stay inside with him.
My cats were playing this evening, and Sam came staggering into the room and just kept backing up. I thought he was just playing around, but he couldn't stop. I looked him over to see if he had something in/on his paw or something, but nothing acted like it hurt him. He just acted like he couldn't keep steady on his back legs, but primarily his left side. I took him to the vet immediately and they took his blood pressure, which they said was normal but should have been higher for being at the vet and being stressed. He was also breathing rather heavy there, but when he was at home he was perfectly fine. They took blood work and everything was great. They did mention that his white blood count was a little off, but that could be caused by about 100 things. So I suppose we start testing for those things tomorrow.
He got home and started licking his wound from the blood draw and his bottom from getting his temp taken, but never his legs. He doesn't seem to be in pain when I feel around on him either, so I really don't think it's a pain issue. He went to eat his dinner and smell another cat, so he will walk but will wobble and stagger his way there. Again, back legs only.
Has anyone heard of this happening? They put him on cardiokinase incase he has a bloodclot. They mentioned a stroke, but want to start testing for more things first.
Also, I don't know if this could have anything to do with anything... but he has been caterwauling every night lately. He would do it once in a while, but the last two weeks it has been almost every night. He seems perfect and normal in every other way.
Thank you so much for your replies!