Some of you may remember back in December we adopted Chip and Scottie. Chip has been sick since we got him and I guess most of his life. We had been taking him to Benfield where they were loading him up with pills: Prednisone, antibiotics, antiviral, to include 225MG human antiviral. For months nothing was working and so we stopped back in Feb.
Today my husband took him to see an internal specialist, low and behold the appointment happened to be with the same vet from Benfield (different hospital this visit) that I went off on and said I would never bring my cat back to see. So needless to say my husband asked to see the other vet and he recommended several blood tests. I just want a second opinion. I feel like this vet is doing the exact opposite of the other guy (which I am sure you will say is a good thing, since I was not happy with the last vet, right ). But I want to make sure the tests are legitimate and not just placation. The tests, which they narrowed down are costing us $450 (plus we have spent about $600 on other visits and meds from the other vet that never worked).
Anyways, they are doing a Feline Leukemia and HIV blood test (yes, he was tested for these as a kitten) and a culture test, where they send the mucus to a lab and see what happens, like fungus, bacteria or virus spreads. They also wanted to do the Herpes test, but decided since they had been “treating†him for that and it did not work that there was no point in it.
His symptoms: constant runny nose, congested breathing. He is very small, 7.1 lbs. Due to his breathing he does not eat much, nor does he really clean himself, so he smells. We do give him baths for his and our other cat also cleans him.
Anyone have any feedback on what this new vet is recommending? Sorry if I seem skeptical, itâ€[emoji]8482[/emoji]s because I am.
Today my husband took him to see an internal specialist, low and behold the appointment happened to be with the same vet from Benfield (different hospital this visit) that I went off on and said I would never bring my cat back to see. So needless to say my husband asked to see the other vet and he recommended several blood tests. I just want a second opinion. I feel like this vet is doing the exact opposite of the other guy (which I am sure you will say is a good thing, since I was not happy with the last vet, right ). But I want to make sure the tests are legitimate and not just placation. The tests, which they narrowed down are costing us $450 (plus we have spent about $600 on other visits and meds from the other vet that never worked).
Anyways, they are doing a Feline Leukemia and HIV blood test (yes, he was tested for these as a kitten) and a culture test, where they send the mucus to a lab and see what happens, like fungus, bacteria or virus spreads. They also wanted to do the Herpes test, but decided since they had been “treating†him for that and it did not work that there was no point in it.
His symptoms: constant runny nose, congested breathing. He is very small, 7.1 lbs. Due to his breathing he does not eat much, nor does he really clean himself, so he smells. We do give him baths for his and our other cat also cleans him.
Anyone have any feedback on what this new vet is recommending? Sorry if I seem skeptical, itâ€[emoji]8482[/emoji]s because I am.