Sick , Skinny Cat Dilemma

[cmsally]

I have been adopted by a cat for approx. a year.

When it first came it was sick and skinny but improved to a normal healthy cat over a couple of months.

Now the cat has taken a turn for the worse over the past few weeks.

It has lost loads of weight, has runny eyes, has a phlegmatic cough and fur looks really unhealthy.

Must be some kind of upper respiratory infection I guess, but the dilemma is how to treat the cat when its off its food and can't get hold of it. It's starting to look like it won't make it although it walks around and drinks water.

What should I do?

Don't want to get scratched or bitten bearing in mind it has had no shots!

But I feel so sorry for it and don't want it to die just because I couldn't get it treatment

[DeeMaiDee]

I have been adopted by a cat for approx. a year.

When it first came it was sick and skinny but improved to a normal healthy cat over a couple of months.

Now the cat has taken a turn for the worse over the past few weeks.

It has lost loads of weight, has runny eyes, has a phlegmatic cough and fur looks really unhealthy.

Must be some kind of upper respiratory infection I guess, but the dilemma is how to treat the cat when its off its food and can't get hold of it. It's starting to look like it won't make it although it walks around and drinks water.

What should I do?

Don't want to get scratched or bitten bearing in mind it has had no shots!

But I feel so sorry for it and don't want it to die just because I couldn't get it treatment

Go talk to a vet about this.

[monty]

How easy is he/she to handle?

If possible to get her into a box, get her over to a vet!

If you had your rabies shots, there's not that many things cats can bother you with, apart from infections of scratch wounds!

[patklang]

There is plnety of h.i.v about,the cat disease i mean.You need a vet to clear up the virus and then get some shots for the cat.

[Sheryl]

Take to a vet, absolutely.

Since she is unvaccinated it could be a numvber of serious things. or it could be a simple respiratory infection which cats do gett.

To a vet ASAP, catching her however you can, and then if she pulls through get her vaccinated.

good luck

[cmsally]

Vet said he would come and take a look, but cat promptly buggered off this morning.

Did notice though that there is no more coughing and eyes seemed to have cleared a bit.

3 bowls of tuna, ham and cat food and milk were completely gone this morning but there are other cats around that know about the rather decent cat nosh we serve up!

Will get cat medicine today and try to serve up in dinner. Fingers crossed.

Somehow I think I will have to pay the vet extra to give shots! Maybe can borrow the vet from the local zoo

[Sheryl]

How's she doing now, Sally?