The friend’s dog had no contact with other animals. He started showing signs of illness four or five days ago. They opened a new bag of dog food nine days ago.
Cats do not get canine distemper. We considered that he could have contracted something from the other cats who were being adopted via PetSmart on the day we adopted him. However, I contacted the man who runs the shelter, and he said that to his knowledge, none of the other cats were having any problems. I’ve also considered that the cat could have eaten something in our house, but we don’t keep poisons around our house because we have young children. No one fed the cat any pain killers. (that was one of the first things the vet mentioned because a lot of people think pets can take Tylenol or Advil or whatever. Those meds kill pets, and we sure didn’t medicate the kitty.)
That should have read that we didn’t medicate our kitty with human meds nonprescribed by our vet. We did give him meds when the vet prescribed them.
3 or 4 years ago before I got my current cat, I adopted a cat that was on display at PetSmart. Within 6 weeks I had spent over $800 on vet bills and ultimately had to put her down due to liver cancer.......
The cat immediately before that one I had for about a week and a half. Never saw it because it was always hiding. I finally returned it to the agency in charged of the adoption and after further questioning them about the cat's history, I found out it was completely feral and living under the porch of a gal who was feeding it......