r/VetHelp

Hello everyone. I have 2 kittens, both 6-7 months old and sisters. I am 32M and have access to vet anytime needed.

I got my second cat around 2 weeks ago and she's a sweet girl. She recently got in her heat cycle I think a little early for her age? They were both planned to get neutered at around 8-10 months but since the cycle started, we planned the neutering process after the cycle ends. Today, she started trembling while sleeping. I woke her up right after taking the video for my vet. This sometimes happens with her feet and tail while they're sleeping on both of the cats. But this time it seemd a little extreme.

She eats well, runs around and purrs when petted. Nothing abnormal but still needed some advice if it is anything emergency? Any advice? Thanks in advance!

I’m 25f and my baby started sneezing a lot yesterday and sometimes some yellow snot would come out. Her one eye is also watering every time she gets a sneezing fit. Today she started having these little head twitches. She’s eating and drinking like normal, maybe a little more tired than normal. She’ll be 10 this year and has never been outside nor is she around other animals. She’s never been sick. The soonest the vet can get me in is 6pm on Monday, but I’m wondering if I should take her to the emergency vet?

I am fostering a young cat from the street (around 8 months old), his first urine was VERY dark which worry me. He clearly was dehydrated before coming in, but i fear there might be blood mixed in it. He is not acting weird (comfortable around us, playing, eating & drinking normally), he pees about 4 times a day, doesn’t meow or use weird positions while doing it.

What do you think?

Ps: he will get a vet checkup very soon and i will talk about it to the vet.

Hey guys, posting from the US. I'm working on getting a vet appointment set up asap but wanted to come here for some information for what could be happening.

My cat (17 years old female spayed) began developing this lump or nodule on her eyelid back in October it started small and grew to this size. I've been in a rough financial situation until recently which is the only reason I haven't taken her sooner.

I noticed though that it started producing way more discharge and it turned into a more green/yellow discharge (you can see a little on her nose from when I wiped it). It doesn't smell bad that I've noticed and she doesn't *seem* bothered by it (as in no pawing at it or rubbing it on anything). I just really don't know what this could be or how serious it is. For some background information she's always been partially blind in this eye from an injury that happened as a kitten and it's always had a little bit of discharge that I've had to clean off regularly but the lump and excess discharge has developed as of October.

Good day everyone. My Tabby 3yo Cat’s 3eyelid looks swollen. No discharge, he does not seem to be distressed or in pain. Still eating and using the bathroom regularly.

Once a week we look after our office kitten and they play fight. If that is relevant.

Oh and it is coming up on winter here if that helps.

Backstory: my partner surprised me with the puppy of my dreams from “a breeder”on a farm in south England, 6th of May. He is our second English cocker spaniel and was advertised as being 10 weeks.
As sweet as the gesture was, and unbeknownst to my partner, I noticed immediately the dog may have worms or was unwell, had the worst infestation of fleas/ticks I’ve ever seen, and was DEFINITELY NOT 10 weeks. Maybe 7 at maximum.
The day the puppy was brought home I immediately took him to our 24/7 urgent care vet, as I was concerned he could also potentially have parvo/etc and could infect my other two pets.

The vet confirmed a majority of my concerns- the puppy was likely at 7-8 weeks old, he had worms, the worst flea infestation they’ve also ever seen, & agreed he needed to have continuous checkups to make sure he doesn’t have parvo. They didn’t charge me for that visit and said come back tomorrow during normal hours so they can treat him, as “they didn’t view it as urgent care”. Fair enough.

I returned in the morning and have now been to the same vet practice, 6 times in the last 7 days. Each appointment was scheduled with a different technician(whoever was on the clock that day), and they all have provided me different care instructions each time I went, and I’m starting to get annoyed by the constant disconnect between each doctor’s advice and diagnosis.

The first one said he’s fine, I’m over reacting, he only had fleas, no worms, and to give him a flea bath. He didn’t want to provide spot on treatment in case he was too young.
I went back and explained his pot belly has gotten even worse (literally looked like he was going to explode) and that their urgent care team said he might have worms but the vet I saw yesterday said otherwise. The vet agreed and gave us dewormers but said there were no fleas.

The dewormer seemed to have worked as he literally shit out nothing but worms for the rest of the day & half of the next.
We took him back the next day for another checkup to monitor his bloat, and the next surgeon said he was riddled with fleas & ticks and was surprised the others didn’t acknowledge this. She also noted she thought it was weird that he had ticks, but none were attached to him. They gave us a spot on treatment for puppies under 8 weeks for fleas only as the flea and tick treatment is too strong for what his age could potentially be. I was directed to give him a thorough bath and then apply the spot on treatment.

Since then, (48+ hours since the spot on) I was directed to give him a few more baths and comb thoroughly. Ive been combing and combing non-stop, but there are white specs in his fur that are essentially cemented into the base. I asked the vet at his next appointment if this was canine lice and they said no, just fleas…I AM NO MEDICAL EXPERT BY ANY MEANS, HENCE THE MULTIPLE VET VISITS IN ONE WEEK—but, to my knowledge, flea eggs don’t remain cemented in the fur—or do they???

I’m at my wits end here, because all the conflicting diagnoses from the vet doctors are making me unsure and confused. I don’t think he’s getting the proper treatments for the ailments he has and it’s making me sick with stress.

With all that said—PLEASE can someone put my mind at ease and tell me what the hell are the white specks cemented to the base of his fur in photo 1&2, as well as which pest the brown/tan specks are in the photos following the first?

A quick side note- I used to work with and train dogs professionally in the past, so I don’t blame my partner for not catching the puppy’s issues immediately. He mistook the potbelly as puppy fat, the pests as mulch/sawdust from the pen he was in, and as for the puppy’s age, the only other puppy he’s ever had/been around is our first cocker who was the runt of her litter at 8&1/2 weeks.
I also want to state that the puppy is currently isolated from my other dog and my cat.

TLDR: PLEASE can someone put my mind at ease and tell me what the hell the white specks are cemented to the base of his fur in photo 1, as well as which pest the brown/tan speck is in the photos following?

Added the obligatory puppy pic of my little void in the last slide. He melts my heart

Hey so my family took in this stray cat but were worried he is sick and might get my other cat sick, he has black stuff all over his chin, ears, and above his left eye, everyday i check up on him and his left eye is leaking goop, like eye mucus kind of? i was thinking maybe he got in a fight and the black spots are scabs but im really worried about his eye, should i be worried?