What does a sneezing kitten mean
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Help, I have a kitten that is about 32 days old and was stepped on by a friend on accident. It wasnt a full step, and the kitten began spinning around in circles and gasping. I then held the kitten and her breathing returned to normal. Her jaw was a little out of place and hanging open, bleeding. Eventually the bleeding stopped and i saw her close and open her jaw with no obvious pain. I laid her on a towel and she was moving her head around occasionally sneezing.
How long have you had this kitten and what vaccines have been done? Does he/she have any other drainage from the nostrils or eyes? Is he sneezing at all?
If you have other cats, someone could have taken a swipe at a "nosy" new kitten, so you might look for scratches on the nose. Also, an active little kitten could have found any number of sharp objects around the house to accidently run into and hurt himself.
As zodiacqueen has said, this is not normal for a kitten.
Hmm....a healthy kitten can also have a dry, warm nose. Good thing he ate and drank some water. Keep an eye on him. If there are no other symptoms as of today and tomorrow, I wouldn't worry too much.
A kitten's nose changes. In other words, it can go from wet and cold to dry and warm from day to night. It doesn't mean he is sick.
You did such an awesome thing, adopting instead of buying from a pet store!!! =) This truly made my day hearing this!!!!
My guess is that the kitten has an upper respiratory infection, which, in that environment is quite common. It's an easy fix. Call the Humane Society back and they might give you some antibiotics to give her. You might want to keep her separated from your other cat/cats so she doesn't give the infection to them. It is highly contagious.
Please, keep us posted.
I recently brought in a new kitten as a friend for my two year old female cat. After a few days, both cats became sick, sneezing, watery eyes, discharge. The kitten was first, so I got him an antibiotic and he's fine now. But my other cat became very ill within a couple of days, and she has been in the emergency animal hospital all weekend and is now staying at the vets. She has a high fever that goes up and down, very congested and not eating. This has gone on for five days.
My kitten who we just rescued from the pet shelter is sick. She has a really runny nose that is making it hard for her to breath through her nose (she actually has to open her mouth to breathe every once in a while), she is very sluggish and has lost all the playfulness she had no less then a week ago, and has been barely eating or drinking unless she's force fed with a dropper we got from the vet (she is on an antibiotic that im giving her with the dropper, but im still worried).
I have a kitten about 4 months old. He is quite a wildcat! Very active and everywhere he goes he goes code 10! Romps and plays and fights all the time. The last 2 days he seems ill. He isn't his usual active self. Spent most of yesterday just sleeping. Didn't even get up to eat or use the bathroom. I slept with him right beside me all night to watch him. This morning he seemed a bit better yet still not his usual self.
Charlene, I just googled "kitten and head tilt" and a bunch of sites came up. Several describing the possibility of what it could be which may include a Vestibular problem (middle ear infection,) punctured ear drum, head trauma, idiopathic (no known reason.) Also, sites of people with kittens of their own with head tilts. While you're waiting for someone who might have experience here, you might google this in the mean time if you haven't already.
We recently got a call from the same people saying they had another kitten available and felt bad about the other kitten and offered us a free kitten. They also now mentioned that all but one of the previous littler were sick and had died. I think they didn`t mention it before in fear of us asking for our money back. Anyway on to the new kitten. He seemed fine the first few days but now is not eating or drinking much and has diarrhea.
You must be very attached to a baby kitten that you have hand raised, I don't understand what you mean when you say the Vet doesn't know what to do??? This kitten needs surgery to remove the stool/ blockage...she is suffering, no wonder she cannot eat or drink with this blockage, why will the Vet not recommend surgery????
I'd say take it to your vet. Otherwise, at that age, the best you can do is to try to insure that the kitten stays warm and gets a chance to nurse from mama.
We've had to actually "Hold mama down" while allowing a kitten to nurse in these circumstances. Sometimes you get a mother cat who just isn't a good mom...and sometimes a mother cat senses a disorder in the kitten's physical being and refuses to nurse it (a Darwinian choice).
Keep doing your pelvic floor exercises. I hardly did last pregnancy and, now I leak when sneezing. I'm pregnant again but making sure to do ten sets a. Dayits already improved.
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