My kitty has Asthma

[Apelila]

I also want to see Roidcat.

Google image search brings up cats in cars, roadkill and......... bicycles? Whatever.

[Palin]

Our cat has asthma too, a pretty bad case. We had to rush her to an emergency vet one night when she was visably struggling to breathe, and panting with her mouth open all night. Shit cost like $2k for an overnight, was reidic.

Anyways, Normal Prednisone didn't help her, and the vets in our area just want to keep trying stronger Oral steroids, despite the fact that when she's taken off them she just goes back to normal. Oral steroids aren't a long-term option like you said, as it has systemic side effects like diabetes. I recently ordered the AeroKat Inhaler as well as some 220mg Flovent from overseas. Still waiting for it to get here in the mail, but hopefully the twice a day Inhaler option will allow her to live a somewhat normal life without 4-5 asthma attacks a day she's having now.

The Inhaler should work for you if the steroids were helping. Most people swear by it's effectiveness from what I've read. Start training her to associate the Inhaler with food or treat time early, it takes a few weeks.

[Velgadess]

have you tried hitting it with a water bottle?

Go fuck yourself.

I agree! that's so wrong.... I think it would have been better to say "have you tried hitting it with a inhaler bottle?"

ok bad joke I know and besides that, glad to know the OP's kitty is doing better. I've owned a few pets in the past and never had to deal with medical issues.

[bechyni]

can't get him to lay still for long enough to get a picture of his back legs ;/ 19 pounds of sheer cat muscle. Instead of playing with our other cats he decided he wanted to play with our 3 70lb collies

[FNH]

looks tweeked out of his damn mind

[Cayos]

I was expecting something more like this:

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_crPBCZok0R...0k/s400/18.jpg

[Salodin]

can't get him to lay still for long enough to get a picture of his back legs ;/ 19 pounds of sheer cat muscle. Instead of playing with our other cats he decided he wanted to play with our 3 70lb collies

Fucking breed that genetically superior cat, god damn.

[Reality]

that cat opens the fridge and gets his own food

[Draygon]

that cat opens the fridge and gets his own food

Cat hits you with a water bottle?

[Silenka]

My family adopted a feral cat from outdoors - well, more like she just walked right into our house: there is a feral cat in my neighborhood that keeps breeding because no one can catch her to fix her, and all the black kittens she has are fearless. This cat was one of the black ones, and we ended up adopting her, but we quickly learned that she had asthma. It wasn't so bad at the beginning but after a few years my parents decided to put her down because it was just too hard for her to breathe. She kept coughing up mucous and stuff, it was awful. No medications really worked on her, sadly, and the vets we took her to couldn't really say what exactly it was other than some kind of asthma.

However, it's probably not the exact same thing your cat has; mine likely didn't have a normal case of asthma and it could have been brought on by anything since she was feral. She was a good cat though, soft and playful and outgoing I hope yours fares better than mine did.

[Aksannyi]

Cat hits you with a water bottle?

In Soviet Russia...

[Cayos]

Cat hits you with a water bottle?

In Soviet Russia....

[Cayos]

Oh wow, seriously? I swear your post wasn't there when I said that.

[Aksannyi]

Lol.

[Zigma]

Our cat has asthma too, a pretty bad case. We had to rush her to an emergency vet one night when she was visably struggling to breathe, and panting with her mouth open all night. Shit cost like $2k for an overnight, was reidic.

Anyways, Normal Prednisone didn't help her, and the vets in our area just want to keep trying stronger Oral steroids, despite the fact that when she's taken off them she just goes back to normal. Oral steroids aren't a long-term option like you said, as it has systemic side effects like diabetes. I recently ordered the AeroKat Inhaler as well as some 220mg Flovent from overseas. Still waiting for it to get here in the mail, but hopefully the twice a day Inhaler option will allow her to live a somewhat normal life without 4-5 asthma attacks a day she's having now.

The Inhaler should work for you if the steroids were helping. Most people swear by it's effectiveness from what I've read. Start training her to associate the Inhaler with food or treat time early, it takes a few weeks.

That's insane. My Aerocat still has not come in. The vet really dropped the ball today. Gotta call them tomorrow.