Sadly our cat passed away on the 3rd January 2009. The fast breathing started again on the night of the 2nd of January and then in the morning she was under the bed, she was still alive at first and my sisters boyfriend stroked her, and then he closed his eyes, and when he woke up again he stroked her again and found that she had died. She was a really nice friend and she will be really missed. We are still amazed that she disappeared for 2 years and managed to make it back to us and still recognize us after 2 years. We buried her today in the back garden, under the angel statue near to one of our other cats Tim, he died very young after chewing on grass that the council had put pesticide on.
Comment by Kate I am so sorry to hear of your loss and also of your previous loss. Thank you for letting us know the outcome, even though it was a sad one. I hope you can find some peace in the knowledge that she is no longer suffering and that she obviously was happy with her life with you if she found her way back to you after so long. Best wishes kate
Dec 18, 2008 Rating
Thanks for the answer by: Darren
Thanks for the answer, we did take our cat the vet before receiving the answer. The vet isn't too sure what is wrong with her. She says that it could be one of two things, either the cat has a cold and that is why she is finding it difficult to breathe, or it could be a heart problem. Unfortunately the cat is purring too much for the vet to check the pulse properly, she did say that they could x-ray the cat but doing so could cause more problems and possibly kill the cat anyway due to the stress, or she could just give her two injections, one antibiotics and the other heart medication and see if one of them works. We decided to go down the route of just giving Shelley the two injections, hoping that one will work. One of the injections will last for about 48 hours (the heart one) and the other will last for 2 weeks (the antibiotics). The vets also told us that the reason she isn't eating is because she is breathing so fast she can't stop breathing to eat. Since the injections though she has perked up a lot, we took her back to the vets the following day for another check up, and there was such a huge difference, when she went the vets the first time she just lay in her pet carrier and allowed us to put the top on, this time she put up a real fight to get into the carrier, and since then she has started eating again. We are really hoping that it is just the case she has caught a cold from somewhere, it is winter and at present we've all got coughs and colds, I asked the vet whether or not we could have given her something, the vet told us that coughs and colds can't go between us and animals (except rodents), but I guess at this time of the year coughs and colds will be circulating in the animal population as well as the humans.
