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If your cat:
- Was attacked by another animal
- Was hit by a car
Or is displaying one or more of the following symptoms:
- Obvious injury and bleeding
- Limping
- Having trouble breathing
- Dragging hind quarters or “dead/paralyzed” tail
- Hasn’t eaten in 24 hours or more
- Lethargy (can’t wake him up or isn’t moving)
- Convulsions (seizures or fits)
- Fever (glassy-eyed, hot to the touch)
- Staggering and/or walking in circles
- Vomiting repeatedly or having severe diarrhea
- Trouble urinating (nothing coming out, running back and forth to the litter box, crying when urinating, licking genitals furiously after attempts to urinate)
- In labor, but looks distressed or kittens aren’t coming out after an hour or so
Call your vet right now! If you can’t get to your regular vet, call the nearest emergency vet clinic. These are emergencies and your cat needs immediate medical attention.
Otherwise, if you have cat-related question you want to ask us? Please use the contact form below. We’ll answer questions in the order in which they’re received, with three main exceptions:
- If it’s a clearly urgent behavior issue (as in, you tell us it’s urgent or it’s obvious to us that your question needs to be answered before its natural turn in the queue), we’ll answer your question on a priority basis.
- If it’s clearly a medical emergency, we’ll write back to you as soon as we get your question and tell you to get your cat to a vet.
- If your question is about inappropriate urination or defecation, it will probably move down the list. We’ve answered more questions about this issue than anything else, and we encourage you to look at the Paws and Effect archives to see if you can find an answer there. You may also purchase the “Paws and Effect Guide to Solving Inappropriate Elimination Problems,” available through our Shop page.
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Hello there,
This is not a question but I still wanted to contact you guys.
I recently got a new kitten, his name is Kiki and he is wonderful!
Yesterday though, he stopped eating and drinking and became extremely anti-social. He then started puking with bile in the puke.
I immediately started looking online and I came across your wonderful website. I followed the advice I found to contact my vet immediately.
The vet practice I ended up choosing was absolutely wonderful! I had no way of transporting myself to the vet on such short notice and I was extremely upset and I thought I was going to lose my little baby boy!
The vet asked me many questions about him, and when she found out I could not get myself to the office she actually offered to come pick me up at home and take me there.
She examined him thoroughly and determined that he had had a bad reaction to the canned food I had fed him. She gave him some medication (which poor Kiki hated!) and gave me some special food (Which Kiki also hated and rejected. lol)
She then offered to take me back home.
Today he was still not drinking much, and she gave me more wonderful advise on how to get him hydrated.
i am so thankful this was the first site I came across and I got that wonderful advise because Kiki is now back to his normal kitten self! I don’t know how i could have lived with myself if I had not done something and he had suffered more.
So again, THANK YOU so much for this wonderful site! You guys helped me get my Kiki back!
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