Please PRAY for my Panda!!! --- UPDATE - He's ALL BETTER NOW!!!

[kuhio98]

Kim ~ Still saying my nightly prayers for you and Panda. Hoping nothing serious is wrong and that Panda is just another one of those Medical Mystery Kitties.

[kittycats_delight]

Kim, I am keeping you and precious Panda in my thoughts and prayers. I hope that boys starts to eat soon and you can figure out what exactly is ailing him.

((((HUGS)))) to you both.
Michelle

[phesina]

We are sending more prayers and healing energies..

Have you and your vet tried an appetite-stimulant with Panda? We use one sometimes at the shelter called cypro-heptadine (something like that).

Love, hugs, and purrs,
Pat and cats

[Medusa]

Have you and your vet tried an appetite-stimulant with Panda? We use one sometimes at the shelter called cypro-heptadine

Yes, you might want to give that a try w/your vet's ok. It sure worked w/my Puddy after her kidney was removed.

[catfamily]

Kim I am so sorry i didn't see this earlier.Of course I am saying bigtime prayes for your dear Panda.
Maybe he just needs the full course of antibitics and sometimes they need stronger antibiotics or just on it for 4 full weeks.
i'm hoping that is all he needs...unless he swallowed something that wasn't food...or a plant?
I don't know...Prayers on the way.I am so sorry for your worrys.I wish I could help more.

I just talked with Mike and he was reminding me of when our big Monty(maincoon) had a 106 temp out of the blue one late morning.I swear he looked fine before it and i never noticed this coming on...Mike called me in and said Monty didn't look right.So i took his temp...freaked when i saw it called the vet while mike was putting him in the car...The vet gave him fluids and took xrays...and gave us azithromyicin for 3 or 4 weeks...i kept giving him fluids for 5 days...his temp went down the very first day at the vets when he was rushed in.
Till this day I still do not know WHY he was sick.
He has been fine ever since.
I think that was a few months ago.
I hope Panda will be ok...VERY soon for you Kim.I know how much you love him.

[Emeraldgreen]

One of my cats who at the time was an indoor/outdoor girl became quite ill a few years ago and she vomitted for 2 days and then became very listless. I got her to the vet and they said she was going into hypothermia. They put her on warm fluids and rushed some blood off to the lab. Her white cell count was through the roof but they couldn't find what was causing her problem. They did multiple in clinic tests for different cat diseases that all came back negative. They did xrays, an abdominal ultrasound and then exploratory surgery a few days later when she wasn't getting any better. They even opened her bladder because they thought they saw something on the ultrasound that looked a little suspicious. Turned out to be nothing. They decided to put her on an antibiotic drip at the hospital because they didn't really know what else to do and she began to slowly come around. I took her home and continued the antibiotics for the next 2 weeks and she was back to normal. They never did figure out what had made her become so sick. Thankfully, years later she hasn't had another occurance like that.
It sure is strange to read about all the posts regarding 'mystery illnesses' and cats. In any case, I hope your Panda starts eating soon and that he is back to his old self ASAP.

[kimlovescats]

Thank you all for sharing your experiences with "mystery illnesses" with your kitties! I really am counting on this being just that! Just a "bug" that he somehow developed, will soon be rid of and back to normal for years to come! My 2 vets and I discussed that we felt since the dry form of FIP is supposed to be more aggressive than even the wet, that Panda most likely would not have responded so quickly to just one day of fluids and antibiotics! My vet did give him an antibiotic injection that first day of Baytril to kickstart the process, and I have been giving him the Clavamox pills. He is slowly starting to nibble a tiny bit at a time, several times this afternoon. He is preferring the Royal Canin Baby Cat which is itsy bitsy teeny weeny pieces. Whatever works for him, is fine with me!!!

Oh, to answer the questions about appetite stimulants, I think that is what the pet-tonic vitamins are supposed to help with. Also Dr. LaValley said that forcefeeding him would help, as his tummy would start feeling hungrier!

Again, I truly appreciate all of the prayers, concern and support! As of now, he is still full of love and nose, face, chin and ear kisses! He is one KISSY BOY, I tell ya!

I will continue to update until I feel he is completely "out of the woods"!

Love,
Kim

Here is a picture of him the first day, with the high fever and then one yesterday when he was feeling better quite a bit better and just now tonight in the last one!