Update on alpha the sole survivor

Trigger warning. Pet loss.

I have fought way too hard to not at least document this little guy. So I’ve lost a litter of kittens to pneumonia.

So little psa: if your kitten shows any sign of sneezing or coughing take them to the vet IMMEDIATELY. Don’t even wait a few hours call immediately.

I had perfectly normal seeming kittens die in a day. A single day. I had a kitten die while I was on the phone explaining to the vet what was going on and so she could prepare for them because it was emergent.

I still have a fighter though. So I have watched this happened 4 times, basically I’m super aware of the stages pneumonia has in kittens before their deaths. It’s coughing/sneezing and then it’s severe respiratory distress and lethargy and then death. Happens extremely fast.

Little alpha right here

He’s declined today even though the vet told me she thinks he has high chances of making it with full treatment. He’s having some respiratory distress today, but at this stage the other kittens kinda just gave up.

This little dude BITES AND CLAWS me to death during his nebulizer treatments. You think this little fluff ball can’t hurt you? Hell teach you. He spits his cough medicine into my face. And no, it’s not like he’s coughing it up. I think it tastes bad because he takes the amoxicillin just fine but when it’s the cough medicine he yells like he’s pissed and spits it out and looks at me like I’ve deeply offended him.

And unlike the other kittens who didn’t make it, he is coughing up green thick mucus. Better out than in.

He’s meowing and walking around.

So yesterday he had an antibiotic injection and steroid injection.

He’s still on oral amoxicillin too, so that it can kill off whatever the antibiotics injection may have missed. He was given fluids via IV and they syringe fed him and he ate like a little fatty. He’s eaten less today, but still has gotten enough to where I’m okay with it.

He’s also on cough medicine to help break up the mucus in his lungs.

And nebulizer treatments. He’s being kept warm by a heater.

I’m still so scared that hes going to die. I’m scared to have hope.

I’m going to call the vet tomorrow, see if she thinks he needs oxygen therapy again.

In short. Alpha feels like crap but he will still fight you.

Meant to post in fur babies. I’ll move it if it is a problem

Oh, my god. Okay so I’ve been keeping him in the bathroom. I went in there and he was OUT OF HIS BED AND WALKING AROUND AND MEOWING and followed me to the toilet and sat at my feet. The fact that he is up, moving around and exploring his environment is a miracle.