kellan_the_tabby

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Oh buddy. :-( Well, I'm glad it wasn't anything more serious and that you didn't have to spend a zillion dollars on tests!

Kaylie almost died a few years ago and her vet was like "Well, she's old, nothing we can do." My mom ended up taking her to a different vet, they rehydrated her, gave her antibiotics and suggested ways to convince her to eat, and got us to switch over to an inhaler (!) for her asthma and she's doing really well now for a little old lady with asthma, kidney insufficiency, and high blood pressure.

Every now and then she gets some respiratory infection and goes off her food, but now we know what to do - keeping them fed and hydrated is so crucial! Same vet also caught her high blood pressure this spring, and medicating it has made her act 3 years younger! They are a more expensive vet than the one we take Maia to (she's mostly toothless now but otherwise the healthy one), but in our case, it's been completely worth it for little Miss Collects Senior Kitty Health Problems. A good vet is worth their weight in diamonds. <3