Sick Kitty
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Thursday
The 22nd of January, 2009 at 06:40 PM
When cats get stressed, they can get sick. Often times they will develop upper respiratory infections which can spontaneously resolve. My little kitty is a testament of this fact.
Forest started sneezing a few days ago. To accompany the sneezing, his right eye became watery like he was upset about something. During this time I was having difficulties with the car and Forest was making frequent trips between vehicles and residences.
When I see a cat at work with an upper respiratory infection, it's probably best that an antibiotic is administered to fight off the infection. The antibiotic works great, but cats are extraordinarily resilient. I took a chance with Forest, to allow his immune system kick in gear and fight off the infection. It worked and he is back to his old purr-sonality.
This post marks the first of Forest's ailments. I just thought I needed it on the books for historical value. Hopefully, somebody learned something too :)
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Richard
January 22nd, 10:51:26 PM
Way to work in a pun, I enjoyed it. Glad to hear the kitty is OK!
Joy
January 27th, 03:41:44 PM
That’s interesting that cats manifest stress in respiratory infections. Even more interesting that those infections can spontaneously resolve without medical intervention. The issues that were plaguing Forest have resolved, hopefully lowering your stress as well. Birds are know to become ill under stress as well, but I’m not sure if those infections require medication to clear up or not. Bird owners are constantly told to bring their parrots into the clinic at the first sign of infection, though in many cases the trip to the vet is enough stress to induce physical illness in itself.
About you locking your keys in a running car, the same thing happened to Craig that same week when the roads were treacherous and he needed the 4WD to get into work. We had lost the other truck key years ago, only God knows how we haven’t lost the only existing key yet. But there he was, locked out of the running truck with no way to get in and beginning to run late for work. So, we had to take the other car ~ a scary ride in bad weather ~ to a dealership to get a replacement key, which would only open the door and not work in the ignition. The truck was still running when we got back with the new door key, thankfully it hadn’t run out of gas and by then all the ice was defrosted off its windows. Craig was late for work that night, but at least we now have a spare door key for the truck.
John
January 27th, 06:57:45 PM
Car stories are always fun Joy. It’s really a frustrating scenario, locking the keys in the car. I should open a thread for this very topic, it would be quite interesting.
Either way, you brought up a good point about birds. Sometimes when I see a cat with a very mild upper respiratory infection, I am unsure about the correct course of action. For mild infections, I know conservative care at home with likely resolve the infection. However, as you stated, the visit to the guy with the white coat is stress enough to transform that mild infection into a full-blown illness. Therefore, very rarely do I send these cats home without something on board to treat the infection. Cats and birds are two of those species that just don’t handle stress well. But we love them anyways :)
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