When I went to get eggs from my egg lady last week (my chickens aren't laying yet, give me time! I'm new.) they had a whole passel of 10 week old kittens hanging around. We had been discussing getting another outdoor cat and my daughter's rabbit had died earlier that day so....long story short when they offered me a little boy cat for free I didn't have it in me to say no.
He is a darling, but pretty much from the beginning he has wheezed when breathing, and both his meow and purr sounds congested. I don't think he sounded like that when I first saw him but I could be wrong, but a friend suggested that bringing a strictly outdoor cat inside an air conditioned house can give them breathing issues. Would tossing him back outside help? Unlike the place we got him we don't have a fence or LSG dogs or a bunch of other cats to protect him. :/
We want to take him to the vet but cannot afford to till next week. Livestock people are much more willing to try to treat their animals themselves, so I thought I would ask here, is there anything I can do for the poor fellow to help him out till we can get him to a vet? I could maybe even get him something from TSC if it would help.
Thanks!
He is a darling, but pretty much from the beginning he has wheezed when breathing, and both his meow and purr sounds congested. I don't think he sounded like that when I first saw him but I could be wrong, but a friend suggested that bringing a strictly outdoor cat inside an air conditioned house can give them breathing issues. Would tossing him back outside help? Unlike the place we got him we don't have a fence or LSG dogs or a bunch of other cats to protect him. :/
We want to take him to the vet but cannot afford to till next week. Livestock people are much more willing to try to treat their animals themselves, so I thought I would ask here, is there anything I can do for the poor fellow to help him out till we can get him to a vet? I could maybe even get him something from TSC if it would help.
Thanks!