Mojo is at the vet right now, they are trying to stabilize him and figure out what is wrong. He stopped eating yesterday, and this morning has starting running around like crazy and licking himself furiously for no reason, just racing back and forth and back and forth and jumping up onto shelves (not normal for him) to lick himself raw. Soon he was so worked up he could not breathe and was panting like a dog and obviously I rushed him into the vet's (he had an appointment for this afternoon *anyhow* b/c of the not eating, but it just could not wait).
He has a chronic respiratory infection and been a bit snurfly the past few months, and in the past we've spent huge amounts of money on what seems to be some form of inflammatory bowel disease but he has been totally ok on that since last November.
The vet says that a) his lungs sound seriously bad
, and b) his behavior seems like either poisoning or a brain issue. I cannot figure out what he could possibly have been poisoned *by*, if that is it.
He did relax a *bit* by the time I left him at the vet's (for chest xrays and bloodwork and observation), so that is at least a step in the right direction, but the vet is really worried and so am I.
Complicating things is the fact that this is a long weekend in Canada (Good Friday is a statutory holiday here) and so if he needs to be hospitalized beyond 5 pm today he would need to go to the super-expensive emergency hospital a half hour away. Oy.
PLEASE think good thoughts for my lil' Moodgie. (He is not actually little, he is huge and puffy orange, and he is the best cat in the world, no offense meant to all the other best cats in the world).
Very worried,
Pat
He has a chronic respiratory infection and been a bit snurfly the past few months, and in the past we've spent huge amounts of money on what seems to be some form of inflammatory bowel disease but he has been totally ok on that since last November.
The vet says that a) his lungs sound seriously bad
He did relax a *bit* by the time I left him at the vet's (for chest xrays and bloodwork and observation), so that is at least a step in the right direction, but the vet is really worried and so am I.
Complicating things is the fact that this is a long weekend in Canada (Good Friday is a statutory holiday here) and so if he needs to be hospitalized beyond 5 pm today he would need to go to the super-expensive emergency hospital a half hour away. Oy.
PLEASE think good thoughts for my lil' Moodgie. (He is not actually little, he is huge and puffy orange, and he is the best cat in the world, no offense meant to all the other best cats in the world).
Very worried,
Pat
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