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Hi all! I found this forum in hopes of finding any suggestions for my cat boyfriends family cat Maurice.
He began a steady decline a few months ago and after 4 vet visits, they still can’t figure out why he’s so sick. I refuse to believe he is just getting old at age 10.
He has been an outdoor cat his whole life and is one of the most social, energetic and non caring cat I have ever met. One day he started staying inside all day which we thought was strange, but it was stormy out that week. After that we noticed he had trouble jumping on to things like he used to, like his back legs were weak. The first vet after doing many tests and X-rays, prescribed him a pain killer due to not finding anything.This seemed to make him feel a little better so she switched him over to one that she supposedly knew more about for long term treatments in cats. The kicker is that the instructions inside say specifically to not administer for cats. I looked it up and the FDA has a black box warning for cat use but cat be used in a small dose if the vet wishes to do so. He was on it for a week or two and had two seizures on it and got bad again so we stopped using it. My boyfriends mom also decided to stop his flea treatment just in case that might be impacting his health too and since he was only staying inside now. After about two or three weeks we decided to take him to a new vet. This vet could only tell us that now our cat is infested with fleas and he is giving up. Alarmed, we get him back on his medication. I start flea combing him a bit after that and my boyfriend begins to give him tuna and all kinds of enticing wet food at night. He seemed to do a bit better then one day last week he perked up. He was jumping all around for 3 days straight! Running and meowing so much it was ANNOYING us! He was really excited and happy and ate a lot. Followed us everywhere, but still didn’t go outside all day like he used to. Although he did go for some time during the day. My boyfriend just have him his next dose of flea meds because after those three days he crashed again and we figured it might be due to the dose being soon. This is the second day after the dose and I can’t even touch him without him yowling/screaming. I came over and tried to do the flea comb and he was so visibly and vocally uncomfortable. I don’t even have to actually touch him and he yowls! I am at such a loss for this guy. It is so hard to see him suffering but we don’t want to put him down if there is some hope out there he can get better. Thank you for reading this massive and confusing story , we appreciate it very much <3
Any suggestions would be greatly encouraged. Anything at all! Thank you.
He began a steady decline a few months ago and after 4 vet visits, they still can’t figure out why he’s so sick. I refuse to believe he is just getting old at age 10.
He has been an outdoor cat his whole life and is one of the most social, energetic and non caring cat I have ever met. One day he started staying inside all day which we thought was strange, but it was stormy out that week. After that we noticed he had trouble jumping on to things like he used to, like his back legs were weak. The first vet after doing many tests and X-rays, prescribed him a pain killer due to not finding anything.This seemed to make him feel a little better so she switched him over to one that she supposedly knew more about for long term treatments in cats. The kicker is that the instructions inside say specifically to not administer for cats. I looked it up and the FDA has a black box warning for cat use but cat be used in a small dose if the vet wishes to do so. He was on it for a week or two and had two seizures on it and got bad again so we stopped using it. My boyfriends mom also decided to stop his flea treatment just in case that might be impacting his health too and since he was only staying inside now. After about two or three weeks we decided to take him to a new vet. This vet could only tell us that now our cat is infested with fleas and he is giving up. Alarmed, we get him back on his medication. I start flea combing him a bit after that and my boyfriend begins to give him tuna and all kinds of enticing wet food at night. He seemed to do a bit better then one day last week he perked up. He was jumping all around for 3 days straight! Running and meowing so much it was ANNOYING us! He was really excited and happy and ate a lot. Followed us everywhere, but still didn’t go outside all day like he used to. Although he did go for some time during the day. My boyfriend just have him his next dose of flea meds because after those three days he crashed again and we figured it might be due to the dose being soon. This is the second day after the dose and I can’t even touch him without him yowling/screaming. I came over and tried to do the flea comb and he was so visibly and vocally uncomfortable. I don’t even have to actually touch him and he yowls! I am at such a loss for this guy. It is so hard to see him suffering but we don’t want to put him down if there is some hope out there he can get better. Thank you for reading this massive and confusing story , we appreciate it very much <3
Any suggestions would be greatly encouraged. Anything at all! Thank you.