Please pray for my mom's 12 year old cat Torry.
Torry got her 3 year booster vaccinations for CVR/Calici and FELV (distemper combo and leukemia) yesterday. It's not uncommon for Torry or my own cats to be sluggish and lethargic after the Calici vaccination so I warned mom about that and to keep an eye on her kitty. Several of mine had it last week and were lethargic for about a day, then back to normal.
She said Torry was normal until about 4p.m. yesterday then went up in her favorite chair and slept there all night. Normally Torry sleeps with my mom. Torry didn't get up to use the litterbox, eat or drink. Mom could only get her to eat a couple treats and lick up a teaspoon of milk. She stayed in the chair all day today until mom prodded her out of the chair this afternoon. Torry was walking with a bad limp. She has arthritis (and she's badly overweight) anyway but mom was worried so she called me.
I went over there this evening and Torry wasn't acting like she was sluggish from the Calici anymore but indeed did have a bad limp, almost not putting weight on the leg at all, then only walking a few steps before laying down again for a bit. The leg she's limping on is the same one she got the FELV vaccination in.
Torry has had this vaccine before, and I've not seen cats react this bad from that vaccine before. I'm not sure if Torry maybe just laid around from the Calici vaccine so long that her arthritis flared up more, or if she jumped wrong on or off something and pulled a muscle, or if this is something serious associated with the vaccine.
I did manage to get her to eat a fair amount of her normal cat food, but she wouldn't drink for me and she climbed out of the litterbox when I put her in there
. I put her on mom's bed with the mattress pad on thinking the heat might help if her muscles were just tender from the shot, but mom texted me later saying Torry went back up in her chair again.
Torry is a tortishell and can be VERY ornery/aggressive (the big boss was nice enough to come to mom's house for the vaccination because she's unhandle-able to bring in) so I wasn't able to get as good of a feel of her as I would have liked. It seemed to be in her muscle more than her joint that was the most painful. She acts tired but is responsive to things, will eat just not drink yet.
I'm going to ask the boss tomorrow if this is something that will pass or if he needs to come over to look at her, or if we need to think about tranquiling her and get x-rays or something. Mom is supposed to call me in the morning with a progress report.
Sometimes working for a vet makes you know just enough to scare yourself to death sometimes thinking of all the worst case scenarios.
I'll post tomorrow when I know more.
Can you all please keep Torry in your prayers for us? We'd appreciate it, thank you.
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