Could my own little cat be very ill?

02/10/2007 by Arielle.

Little Shadow (our very loved kitten who will only be 1 year old next month), is showing signs of possibly carrying a nasty virus. She has never grown fully like her brother and her left eye has suddenly become cloudy and discoloured. My husband and I (both being vets and maybe knowing too much), feel it could be Feline Leukaemia, Feline Aids or Feline Infectious Peritonitis. She is obviously fully vaccinated, but could still be a carrier of one of these nasty diseases. I am putting off having her tested but will take her in to work on Saturday to blood test her.

Shadow and her brother Buttons came over from Northern Ireland with us only 3 months ago to live an idyllic life in the English countryside. They had been feral kittens born in the street and their mother had been killed by a car when they were only 10 days old. In the cold of the winter, they mewed pitifully for her for 2 days until a kind person living on the estate where they were hiding, contacted the receptionist at the practice I was working at. They came in lifeless, starving and freezing with their eyes gummed up. The vet I worked for wanted them put to sleep but I decided to give them a chance and took them home.

They went from hell to heaven and spent their first few months in the warm arms of one of my besotted children. I tried to rehome them as we are an army family and I do feel it is not fair to move with cats, but we all grew so attached to them that when it came time to find them homes, we just couldn’t.

I will have a better idea of Shadow’s condition on Saturday, but it would break our hearts if it was something serious.

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