Hi again guys.
I’m back with a question for my animal rescue foster cat, Finn. I tried searching the forum, but didn’t find anything about it. Besides his overweight and FHS, one of the symptoms he has is a constant stuffy nose. I hear it because breathing makes stuffed sounds, don’t know how else to describe it. While sleeping he sometimes make peep sounds and slight snores. He’s not mouth breathing or anything, but it’s probably uncomfortable for him. His overweight probably doesn’t help, but he had it when he came here in June as well, when he wasn’t much overweight (5,4kg), just not as bad as now.
I have him on about 2/3 frozen raw complete meal and 1/3 barf with supplement. He’s also getting 1/8 ts seameal, one or two drops of b12, zinc sulphate, burdock, milk thistle and lemonbalm for his FHS. He’s not loosing any weight yet, but it’s a bit challenging with lessening the amount of his food because the company that makes the raw food he gets said he might not get all the nutrients he needs if I reduce more. I’m not confident in finding the correct amount of supplements if I do that, he is already getting much less of the meal than they recommend. So for now his weight is quite stable on about 6,7kg when he should be around 5, maybe 4,5kg. He’s had the stuffed nose issue from before I changed him to this food. His eyes have cleared up and his fur is really shiny and soft now, so something is working well with this food.
I see some people spray colloidal or sovereign silver on ther cat’s noses, but I’m a little hesitant with that.
Otherwise he’s quite happy, wants to play a bit, 10yo, male, neutered, vaccinated this fall (before that I don’t know), standard Norwegian breed, can go outside (but doesn’t very much in the winter weather) and I’m working on finding out the weight issue. The issue doesn’t change in different times or settings.
Is there anything specific I can do for his stuffed nose issue?
Thanks a lot
@Dr. Jean Hofve @Dr. Jeff
I’m back with a question for my animal rescue foster cat, Finn. I tried searching the forum, but didn’t find anything about it. Besides his overweight and FHS, one of the symptoms he has is a constant stuffy nose. I hear it because breathing makes stuffed sounds, don’t know how else to describe it. While sleeping he sometimes make peep sounds and slight snores. He’s not mouth breathing or anything, but it’s probably uncomfortable for him. His overweight probably doesn’t help, but he had it when he came here in June as well, when he wasn’t much overweight (5,4kg), just not as bad as now.
I have him on about 2/3 frozen raw complete meal and 1/3 barf with supplement. He’s also getting 1/8 ts seameal, one or two drops of b12, zinc sulphate, burdock, milk thistle and lemonbalm for his FHS. He’s not loosing any weight yet, but it’s a bit challenging with lessening the amount of his food because the company that makes the raw food he gets said he might not get all the nutrients he needs if I reduce more. I’m not confident in finding the correct amount of supplements if I do that, he is already getting much less of the meal than they recommend. So for now his weight is quite stable on about 6,7kg when he should be around 5, maybe 4,5kg. He’s had the stuffed nose issue from before I changed him to this food. His eyes have cleared up and his fur is really shiny and soft now, so something is working well with this food.
I see some people spray colloidal or sovereign silver on ther cat’s noses, but I’m a little hesitant with that.
Otherwise he’s quite happy, wants to play a bit, 10yo, male, neutered, vaccinated this fall (before that I don’t know), standard Norwegian breed, can go outside (but doesn’t very much in the winter weather) and I’m working on finding out the weight issue. The issue doesn’t change in different times or settings.
Is there anything specific I can do for his stuffed nose issue?
Thanks a lot
@Dr. Jean Hofve @Dr. Jeff
