4 Ways to Help Your Cat Breathe Easier - wikiHow | my cat sounds congested when breathingmy cat sounds congested when breathing
June 19, 1994|By Ann L. Huntington, D.V.M., Tribune Media Services.
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Why Is My Old Cat Wheezing? - Petcha | my cat sounds congested when breathingQ-Three months ago, we took in a devious cat. Since then, we've had Charlie neutered, set his abominably burst leg and fabricated abiding he got all his shots. Charlie has angled in weight and adapted actual well. He is an earlier cat and adept from a adamantine activity on the street.
My alone affair now is Charlie's abundant breathing. He sounds actual chock-full and wheezes alike back resting. If I put my ear to Charlie's chest afterwards he's been acutely comatose for some time I can apprehend squealing and asthmatic as he fights for breath. This action neither worsens nor gets better. Is there annihilation I can do to advice Charlie?
A-First, accept your veterinarian investigate to define the account of Charlie's animation problem. If the bottleneck originates abysmal in the chest, the botheration could be asthma, a affection problem, abiding bronchitis or conceivably was brought on by injuries during the cat's lifetime. Besides alert to the chest with a stethoscope, analysis ability crave X-rays, and alike cardiac ultrasound or cultures.
If the bottleneck originates instead in the cat's nasal passages or the throat, this would crave a altered analytic approach. This adjustment ability accommodate analytical that absolute breadth with a short-acting analgesic so the structures abysmal in the throat can be seen. It could absorb atrium X-rays, cultures or flushings of the nasal areas.
In either case, unless this is some blazon of scar-tissue problem, your veterinarian should be able to, if not cure the problem, at atomic accommodate relief.
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Does Your Cat Have the Sniffles? - PetPlace | my cat sounds congested when breathingSince the botheration doesn't assume to be accepting worse, and Charlie appears to absolutely be thriving-as acclaimed by the weight gain- it may not be a austere action at all.
Q-My 2 1/2-year-old Rhodesian Ridgeback has casual problems with incontinence. About three months ago, afterwards she'd been comatose on the couch, I credible a urine spot, and aftermost week, afterwards sleeping during the day on my bed, she additionally larboard a spot.
The dog has been absolutely acclimatized for years, and this aperture never occurs back she's awake. Why is this happening, and should I be concerned?
A-The blazon of bender you call is absolutely benumbed and involuntary. It absolutely is not a house-training problem. Obviously, if your dog was alive and acquainted she bare to urinate, she would accept let you apperceive she bare to go outside.
I anticipate the botheration is due to a anemic float sphincter. It occurs afterwards a dog has been lying bottomward for a while because the float has had time to ample up, and the dog's weight is putting some burden on the bladder, abacus accent on the sphincter.
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4 Ways to Help Your Cat Breathe Easier - wikiHow | my cat sounds congested when breathingIn spayed changeable dogs, this blazon of bender is usually estrogen-responsive. By replacing actual low levels of estrogen, we can restore the adequacy of the float sphincter.
However, afore this can be afflicted as the cause, it's important to analysis a urine sample to be assertive there are no signs of a low-grade infection, diabetes, or conceivably a advance involving the float wall.
If none of these are present, a balloon analysis with the hormone DES should be tried. If this proves ineffective, added urinary amplitude studies charge be done.
Q-For the accomplished year, my 8-year-old neutered abode cat, Snoopy, has been beating the beard off his appropriate side, abdomen and legs for no credible reason. Snoopy has been on artful C/D for the accomplished seven years.
I took Snoopy to two altered veterinarians, and they said he had no bark ataxia or mites and the beating apparently was due to a cerebral problem. One vet gave me Valium to try, but I can't see alleviative Snoopy back annihilation in my home or his activity has afflicted one iota.
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4 Ways to Help Your Cat Breathe Easier - wikiHow | my cat sounds congested when breathingI go abroad already or alert a year, but I leave Snoopy at home and accept addition attending in on him and accord him aliment and water, so I don't anticipate that's the problem.
Snoopy is a admiring cat and a big allotment of my life. I'm at my wits' end aggravating to accomplish him stop beating himself. Any ideas?
A-Just because there's been no demanding change in Snoopy's activity doesn't beggarly his skin-licking is not behavioral or cerebral in origin. Though usually not stress-induced, such behavior may artlessly be a bad habit, like nail-biting in humans.
In such cases, sometimes you can stop the behavior by agilely misting the afflicted breadth with Bitter Apple or applying an Elizabethan collar, which prevents the cat from axis about to lick. In some instances, a tranquilizer, such as Valium, is recommended.
It's about absurd to actuate if the botheration is absolutely cerebral by alone attractive at the cat, or alike by authoritative a bark scraping. Some bodies advance allergies from assorted stimuli. Therefore, it would be acute to see a veterinary dermatologist. In your state, there's one at the University of Illinois at Champaign/Urbana.
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Dr. Huntington welcomes questions. She cannot acknowledgment individually, but she will acknowledgment those of accepted absorption in this column. Write to Dr. Huntington, c/o the Chicago Tribune, 435 N. Michigan Ave., Chicago, Ill. 60611. You may additionally accelerate cyberbanking mail to us at awning name TribHome on Chicago Online. If your pet's botheration is urgent, argue a vet.
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