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Rambi is a lionhead Cross, approx 7-8 years old (rescue foundling, guestimate only). He is very lively, active, happy, binkies lots, jumps on the furniture and generally likes life. Eating, drinking, poos and urine are all good.
Four issues:
1) Before Christmas he had a snotty nose for two days, clear so the vet said do nothing. In February we noticed green snot (wasn't there the day before), we took him immediately to the vets and he was on meds for three weeks. All cleared up. A month ago he sneezed a few times and had clear snot for a day but nothing else. Vet said do nothing.
2) He has breathing issues and the vet can hear something on his lungs. Rambi only has breathing issues when he gets excited (food mainly), scared (picked up, although once he is picked up he is perfectly happy as long as we aren't trimming his nails!), or sometimes when he is sleeping. The vet said he may have asthma and they can X-Ray but the stress may do more harm than good. He has always had funny breathing but the last few months it has become worse.
3) For the last couple of months he has sometimes struggled to eat his caecals. He shuffles backwards to eat them off the floor. He does eat them all though.
4) He has gained weight, from 1.7kg to 1.9kg in the last few months. The vet said his weight is still in the healthy range but needs to be watched in case it continues to rise, we have put him on a diet.
Please help!
Should I push the vet for more intervention or tests? Is it just his age combined with what must have been a terrible life before we had him (no front teeth, awful story)? I don't want him to suffer needlessly, but if we can prevent something terrible happening I would gladly do that.
All advice happily received.
thank you
Four issues:
1) Before Christmas he had a snotty nose for two days, clear so the vet said do nothing. In February we noticed green snot (wasn't there the day before), we took him immediately to the vets and he was on meds for three weeks. All cleared up. A month ago he sneezed a few times and had clear snot for a day but nothing else. Vet said do nothing.
2) He has breathing issues and the vet can hear something on his lungs. Rambi only has breathing issues when he gets excited (food mainly), scared (picked up, although once he is picked up he is perfectly happy as long as we aren't trimming his nails!), or sometimes when he is sleeping. The vet said he may have asthma and they can X-Ray but the stress may do more harm than good. He has always had funny breathing but the last few months it has become worse.
3) For the last couple of months he has sometimes struggled to eat his caecals. He shuffles backwards to eat them off the floor. He does eat them all though.
4) He has gained weight, from 1.7kg to 1.9kg in the last few months. The vet said his weight is still in the healthy range but needs to be watched in case it continues to rise, we have put him on a diet.
Please help!
Should I push the vet for more intervention or tests? Is it just his age combined with what must have been a terrible life before we had him (no front teeth, awful story)? I don't want him to suffer needlessly, but if we can prevent something terrible happening I would gladly do that.
All advice happily received.
thank you