Hello!
I'm the proud owner of a brand spanking new 5 month black and white DSH named Chester.
I knew picking him up from the Humane society that he had been there about a week and that URI's had been running pretty rampant (as is expected in shelters). He was sniffiling a bit, but the ladies let me have him regardless, and I thought "geez, I'd rather him only get this once and pay to get the meds in him and get rid of it then having them hold him back and watch him go through round after round of antibiotics" as I've seen in many shelter cases while I've been searching for the right kitty. The next day his sniffles had turned to sneezes and I knew I had a upper respitory infection on my hands.
I come from a house with 3 senior cats presently, and we had to put my precious Natasha down this summer. None of our cats have ever had a URI to my knowledge. Chester went immediately on an antibiotic after a quick trip to the vet...pretty much the guy said (to my boyfriend *groan*) give him half a pill twice a day for 14 days and keep him away from the other cats. So I have been.
I brought him home yesterday, today is day 4 of his antibiotics, he's been staying at my boyfriends house with me for a few days. He's eating and drinking well and seems happy albeit sniffily.
I was reading today that because he has this it means he'll have it forever and it's severly contagious. Should I be really really worried about this? Is he going to be in misery and make all of the other cats that I have while he's alive in misery forever? Because that's the way that the pages are making it sound. I've been washing my hands after handling him, he's seperated, as is all of his dishes and litter, etc. The other cats are going in for their boosters tomorrow to give them some prevention, and get the muchly needed rabies boosters. Is there anything else we should do?
Any information that you can give me would be helpful, I've done some reading, but it all feels fatalistic.
Thank you for any help you can give.
Jessica
I'm the proud owner of a brand spanking new 5 month black and white DSH named Chester.
I knew picking him up from the Humane society that he had been there about a week and that URI's had been running pretty rampant (as is expected in shelters). He was sniffiling a bit, but the ladies let me have him regardless, and I thought "geez, I'd rather him only get this once and pay to get the meds in him and get rid of it then having them hold him back and watch him go through round after round of antibiotics" as I've seen in many shelter cases while I've been searching for the right kitty. The next day his sniffles had turned to sneezes and I knew I had a upper respitory infection on my hands.
I come from a house with 3 senior cats presently, and we had to put my precious Natasha down this summer. None of our cats have ever had a URI to my knowledge. Chester went immediately on an antibiotic after a quick trip to the vet...pretty much the guy said (to my boyfriend *groan*) give him half a pill twice a day for 14 days and keep him away from the other cats. So I have been.
I brought him home yesterday, today is day 4 of his antibiotics, he's been staying at my boyfriends house with me for a few days. He's eating and drinking well and seems happy albeit sniffily.
I was reading today that because he has this it means he'll have it forever and it's severly contagious. Should I be really really worried about this? Is he going to be in misery and make all of the other cats that I have while he's alive in misery forever? Because that's the way that the pages are making it sound. I've been washing my hands after handling him, he's seperated, as is all of his dishes and litter, etc. The other cats are going in for their boosters tomorrow to give them some prevention, and get the muchly needed rabies boosters. Is there anything else we should do?
Any information that you can give me would be helpful, I've done some reading, but it all feels fatalistic.
Thank you for any help you can give.
Jessica