What do you do when the cat is ill? Sometimes they just don't seem to have their normal sparkle or want to play. The problem is when an illness crosses over from being an ordinary every day event into something more serious. Cats are often a little bit sick. How often have you been sitting quietly in the comfort of your home and suddenly without warning the cat is sick? Happens at least once a week in our cat filled house. This may be a sign of a prolonged illness but nearly all the time it is simply because they ate something that disagreed with them or had a particularly big hairball (fur ball) to bring up. I usually watch if any of them are eating grass as it acts as an emetic and sure enough a little while later up comes the sick, usually somewhere nice and warm where they fled to as they were feeling a bit off. Washing sick off duvet covers is a chore that all cat lovers do several times a year.
Occasionally they will sneeze and the violence of that sneeze is tremendous, their little bodies shake and a loud noise appears from their nostrils. They don’t seem to have perfected using handkerchiefs or covering their mouths and noses when they do it, they just sneeze! If your cat has a cold make sure that you clean her food and litter trays very carefully as you do not want any infections to spread.
When do you seek professional advice from your veterinarian? It is a difficult question to answer. I think the rule must be the same as we use for our own general health. If the cat is looking really ill, having trouble breathing or has a temperature and maybe is sick all day and all night, call the veterinarian. If it’s a sneeze and a cough and then they roll over look adoringly at you and scoff their meal, then leave it a few days as it is probably just a head cold that will go after a couple of days rest and relaxation.
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