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Our cat Charlie is 9 years old and has always been a very friendly, talkative and active cat..... until just over a week ago.
He became very quiet and just wanted to sleep all the time...... basically he didn't want to be bothered with anything and wasn't that interested in eating or drinking. So off to the vet we went, they diagnosed a probable gastro intestinal infection (which he has had once before) and sent us home after some anti-inflamatory and anti-biotic shots.
The vet said that he should slowly improve over the following three days of anti-biotic tablet treatment..... however he has hardly changed.
He sleeps all the time and hardly moves around the house, he seems to be eating ok (but only when presented with food) but we haven't seen him drink anything (there are water pots all over the house for him), he has wee'd but no poo in the last three days (as far as we can tell..... we have two other cats using the same facilities).
I'm not convinced that the vet was correct with her diagnosis as previously he recovered within hours..... also this time he hasn't had a fever which I understand is common with gastro infections.... finally he only vomited once (before we went to the vet).
The most worrying thing to us is that his movements are so slow and laboured..... he finds it hard to jump up and down from our bed. He also seems to spend most of his time laying with his eyes wide open, finally he ends up sitting in uncomfortable looking positions (eg. often sitting with his head held up rather than relaxing completely).
As I said normally he would be running around and talking a lot so there is definately something not right...... do these symptoms ring any bells with anyone?
Please help..... two very worried cat lovers!
He became very quiet and just wanted to sleep all the time...... basically he didn't want to be bothered with anything and wasn't that interested in eating or drinking. So off to the vet we went, they diagnosed a probable gastro intestinal infection (which he has had once before) and sent us home after some anti-inflamatory and anti-biotic shots.
The vet said that he should slowly improve over the following three days of anti-biotic tablet treatment..... however he has hardly changed.
He sleeps all the time and hardly moves around the house, he seems to be eating ok (but only when presented with food) but we haven't seen him drink anything (there are water pots all over the house for him), he has wee'd but no poo in the last three days (as far as we can tell..... we have two other cats using the same facilities).
I'm not convinced that the vet was correct with her diagnosis as previously he recovered within hours..... also this time he hasn't had a fever which I understand is common with gastro infections.... finally he only vomited once (before we went to the vet).
The most worrying thing to us is that his movements are so slow and laboured..... he finds it hard to jump up and down from our bed. He also seems to spend most of his time laying with his eyes wide open, finally he ends up sitting in uncomfortable looking positions (eg. often sitting with his head held up rather than relaxing completely).
As I said normally he would be running around and talking a lot so there is definately something not right...... do these symptoms ring any bells with anyone?
Please help..... two very worried cat lovers!