I made the mistake of eating pork (bacon in a salad - allergic) so have
been out of action a few days......
hence slow response...
He's lucky to get mice but there are risks outdoors, including mouse
tapeworm for example.
Not likely from worms.
Worms usually present as SLOW weight loss if any - and a pot-belly for
roundworms - or rice-looking worm proglottids (egg packets, often motile)
near the anus for tapeworm.
More the symptoms of bordetella bronchiseptica in cats - which is a
"silent pneumonia" and kills, and I hope it is not that.
But a typical symptom is a cough that looks more like a hairball attempt
than a cough - but produces no hairball.
Symptoms are very few in cats:
Cough might be present and if so is a "hairball-looking" one.
Less energy, less activity, more sleeping.
Los of weight usual but not always.
That's about it!
Three months later they suddenly die after seeming okay the night/day before.
If this is what's there (and vets usually miss it) it's 100% fatal in
kittens and 50% in adults unless you use some homeopathy.
It is the same organism as kennel cough in dogs - but is far more serious
in cats or sheep. It often has a few upper respiratory symptoms with it
like sneezes, but may have none. X-ray of a late stage case will show
opaque lungs that are diffusely opaque throughout rather than spot focal
infections. There's no easy test - a deep tracheal swab is often
false-result and is certainly not worth the trauma of the necessary
anesthetic to acquire it. Also vets tend to forget it is bacterial
(interstitial though) needing a different swab from the viral ones they
usually take.
In hour shoes i'd use Bordetetlla bronchiseptic 200C and Feline URI 30C
both preventively asap - and then figure the simillimum to add in.
I can't say it's the dread BB but it MIGHT be - and I'd play safe with the
rems suggested.
(Write off list - I stock them if needed.)
BB definitely can be put right with homeopathy if it is that.....
I would not use herbs on cats. They have no metabolsim to handle them -
you damage the liver etc..
Take a stool sample to the vet and have them look at it under the
microscope for worm eggs. IF there are any, THEN there are worms and the
egg is specific to each worm so the vet will tell you what one/s are there
and you can repertorize accordingly. If not, no worms.
But worms do not cause sneezing - or hairball-like coughing in cats.
Namaste,
Irene
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Irene de Villiers, B.Sc AASCA MCSSA D.I.Hom/D.Vet.Hom.
P.O. Box 4703 Spokane WA 99220.
www.angelfire.com/fl/furryboots/clickhere.html (Veterinary Homeopath.)
"Man who say it cannot be done should not interrupt one doing it."
) Like us they don't need it every day but you need to try and copy it over the course of the week or so so it is balanced. It doesn't even have to be ground, that is for your convenience, better if it isn't and he will eat it. Mine love chicken necks and split leg quarters. Make sure it is raw and not cooked though. I have a friend who just freezes in meal portions and takes it out and gives it every day. She uses the ground for that reason. She get hers from Columbia River Natural Pet foods. They will ship.