Two adorable girl cats adopted from Philly PAWS in August 2014
30/01/2025
This little Rye, full of mysteries!
Humom here. So in the wee hours of morning I was awakened by Rye jumping out of bed and crying out like she was in pain. When I got up to see she was laying like a pancake in the middle of the floor. At first it looked like she was maybe hunting something or maybe trying to vomit - she was very low to the ground. Picking her up, she was breathing fast (but not deep chest breathing) and purring weakly. And she just seemed a bit limp in my arms. I set her back down and she waddled out of the room. When I followed her she had collapsed again in the living room and behind her was a puddle of p*e on the rug with some on her foot. I woke up catdad and when I came back she was still on the ground, low but mouth breathing with her tongue hanging out. Catdad picked her up and she still felt a bit limp to him. Then she walked herself to the litter box and dropped a big 💩.
We got ourselves together to leave for the emergency vet and I saw her mouth breathing again for a moment while she just laid low. We took her to our nearest emergency vet and they assessed her and determined she did not have any fluid around her heart or lungs or any other signs of heart failure, chest X-ray was clear. She didn’t even need supplemental oxygen.
Considering she was early pre-stage CKD when last we checked her numbers, with a high-normal thyroid along with her moderate/severe 3/4 heart murmur we were fearing the worst.
Her kidney values were back in normal range! Her thyroid was also normal! She had only a slightly elevated Potassium. Her glucose was only slightly elevated (stress). So likely not diabetes. They said they would have a cardiac workup in the morning and hold her for the rest of the night to observe. (Continued in comments, same text as slides)
