Hi all, I have a foster cat named Ciara.
I pulled her from the local shelter in late March of this year with her 5 kittens. One kitten died, apparently of URI. Several kittens had severe eye infections to the point their eyes were sealed shut. They were cleaned twice a day with saline and treated with terramycin ointment. One kitten has a scarred cornea. The surviving kittens were all undersized and underweight. One became very ill with diarrhea. She was taken to the vet and a fecal was run on her, negative for both parasites and bacteria, and put on Albon, but was dead within hours. The now 3 surviving kittens are about half the size of normal kittens, but have been spayed/neutered and after numerous vet trips have been proclaimed healthy. They have had their distemper shots and one felv shot. Mom has not been doing well and still is not. She had stomatitis and had 8 teeth removed. She was then diagnosed with IBD (not by my regular vet). I was treating her with a month's course of Flagyl. I had a kitten with watery diarrhea and took her in and she was diagnosed with giardia, so all cats are being treated for giardia. She was also treated for giardia and the diarrhea seems somewhat better. She has hair loss and her head is crusty (like ringworm) but her back and tail are missing big chunks of hair like mange. The vet did a skin scraping and says it is neither ringworm nor mange. Since the diarrhea has improved the hair on her back is growing back in but it is in very poor shape. (All my other cats have beautiful fur - they are all on Felidae). She had cysts on both ovaries when she was spayed. Now she has contracted URI, apparently out of thin air. I talked to my vet about this and asked if she should be retested for FELV/FIV. He said yes, so we are going to retest her, but that there are other virii that have the same effects that can't be tested for? Does anyone know anything about this? She's been mixing with my other foster cats for months. I've been slowly vaccinating them (the rescue I am fostering them for does nto require FELV vaccine, but I do) but have one with a heart condition that can't be vaccinated. Money is getting to be an issue here, as I am just running out. I can't get the rescue to reimburse me for medical. I don't know what to do. Does anyone have any ideas about any of this..stuff to try, etc. She's a sweet cat, but I am sure she doesn't liek being constantly ill. -- Vist the Rescuties store and save a kitty life! http://astore.amazon.com/rescuties-20
