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A few months ago I moved to Oklahoma from Mississippi and about a month after I was able to bring my cat Percy up to join me. He's a neutered american shorthair and a big orange ball of love who's always been very playful and affectionate. When I first took him in about three years ago the vet said he was around six. He was a wandering neighborhood stray before he found me, but after he became an exclusively indoor cat, and he's been very happy and healthy. The only issue he's had is a tendency towards urinary tract problems. I keep him on a wet food diet to make sure he gets enough liquid and he's been fine. But recently after we arrived in Oklahoma he's developed crusty sores around his neck. They didn't seem to bother him too much and we blamed it on fleas. I've started using the Advantage spray treatment, both the kind sprayed directly on the cat and the kind for furniture, as the only proper flea treatment I could afford was Sentry and I've heard terrible things about that brand. But the sores haven't cleared up.
Now, my room mates have two other cats, another neutered male and a fixed female (he and the male get along fine but the female is very bad tempered, always growling and hissing at everything, and she throws a noisy fit whenever she sees him) who go outside pretty much every day. So, I decided to start letting Percy out as well, once I had tags for him. I've been sitting out in the yard with him for a couple of hours every morning for the past three days, keeping an eye on him and making sure he recognized the new yard was home now. Today, I stepped outside briefly for something and he followed me and I decided to let him have some fun. I went back inside for three to five minutes, then came back out to check on him. I found him laying on the grass face down in a very strange, sprawled position, panting, like he'd collapsed. He didn't respond when I called his name or touched him, and there was drool on the grass under his head. I scooped him up and brought him back inside and after a moment he seemed to come too. Very lethargic as though he'd just woken up. I'm unemployed on disability and I can't really afford vet bills to find out what happened, but I'm scared it's something serious. I have a severe anxiety disorder and Percy is my lifeline. I don't know what I'd do if I lost him. Someone please tell me this isn't as serious as it looked?
Now, my room mates have two other cats, another neutered male and a fixed female (he and the male get along fine but the female is very bad tempered, always growling and hissing at everything, and she throws a noisy fit whenever she sees him) who go outside pretty much every day. So, I decided to start letting Percy out as well, once I had tags for him. I've been sitting out in the yard with him for a couple of hours every morning for the past three days, keeping an eye on him and making sure he recognized the new yard was home now. Today, I stepped outside briefly for something and he followed me and I decided to let him have some fun. I went back inside for three to five minutes, then came back out to check on him. I found him laying on the grass face down in a very strange, sprawled position, panting, like he'd collapsed. He didn't respond when I called his name or touched him, and there was drool on the grass under his head. I scooped him up and brought him back inside and after a moment he seemed to come too. Very lethargic as though he'd just woken up. I'm unemployed on disability and I can't really afford vet bills to find out what happened, but I'm scared it's something serious. I have a severe anxiety disorder and Percy is my lifeline. I don't know what I'd do if I lost him. Someone please tell me this isn't as serious as it looked?