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Why Your Cat Has Intermittent Fever
Intermittent fever in cats usually signals an underlying disease, and most recurring-fever cases turn out to be feline infectious peritonitis, or FIP. Diagnosis relies on blood and urine tests, and FIP needs continuous, consistent treatment supported by good nutrition.
What to Feed a Cat With Poor Appetite
When a cat loses appetite, first find the cause of the poor appetite so you can treat it accordingly and restore the cat's appetite. If ignored, the cat will gradually lose weight, affecting its health.
Can Cats Eat Salt? What Happens If They Eat Too Much
Cats need only about a third of the salt humans do, and their few sweat glands cannot flush excess sodium — extra salt causes tear stains, tartar, and kidney or urinary damage. Severe overdose leads to sodium poisoning, dehydration, and can be fatal within 24 hours, requiring IV electrolyte treatment.
How Long Does a Female Cat Take to Recover After Spaying?
Owners may hesitate about spaying, fearing risk and post-op issues. Here we discuss spay-related knowledge.
Why Won’t a Mother Cat Eat After Giving Birth?
A new mother cat may refuse food from exhaustion, pain, mastitis, postpartum calcium deficiency, hormone swings, or anxiety. Hormone or exhaustion/pain causes usually recover with rest. Offer tempting foods like canned food, goat milk, crucian carp soup, or chicken breast. Calcium deficiency or mastitis show swollen breasts, fever, weakness, twitching—see a vet.
Over-one-month-old cat with green watery diarrhea, poor appetite, low spirits, always lying down; what is wrong?
A one-month-old with green watery diarrhea, no eating, and lethargy may have indigestion, enteritis, or panleukopenia; irregular feeding harms the gut. Such a kitten needs only milk or formula.
My three-month-old kitten had chicken-breast cat food for the first time today; this afternoon it started twitching its nose, possibly coughing about five or six times, but with no discharge and good spirits.
Nose twitching after eating chicken-breast cat food may just be from eating too fast and choking—keep observing. If it persists, it could signal a respiratory infection, pneumonia, heart disease, or blood parasites, needing a vet check. Also avoid overfeeding favorite foods to prevent rapid eating and choking.
The spot where I put the band-aid in the picture keeps leaking milky white fluid, like breast milk, and it won’t stop.
Constant discharge from a cat's belly is likely a deep wound infection, worsened by covering it with a band-aid. Fit an Elizabethan collar to stop licking and take the cat to a vet for cleaning and antibiotics, since a band-aid only traps the infection.
My cat is weak, sounds congested, and only eats chicken breast
Weakness, congestion, and poor appetite may come from a cold, respiratory infection, allergy, or virus/bacteria. Clear any nasal object, keep it warm, give broad-spectrum antibiotics, and see a vet if no improvement.
She stopped eating kibble a few days ago but ate cat strips; the last two days she won’t even eat strips, chicken breast, or shrimp, and drinks little. She poops and pees normally but a bit large; energy is fine, very active. Yesterday morning she vomited a little white clear fluid, then nothing since. What’s wrong?
Sudden not eating with vomiting suggests gastroenteritis, parasites, or blockage, or hairballs if no hairball paste lately. Try hairball paste; if no improvement, get an X-ray for blockage. If just inflammation, antacids and anti-inflammatories suffice.