Cat with either a dirty mouth or gum problem?

Just to report back....he's out of surgery and lost all of his upper
teeth behind the canines. Poor guy. He also lost one canine (and had
lost one in a previous dental), so he has two canines left plus his
lower teeth.

My poor big boy. But he's going to feel better once he heals. He
definitely has stomatitis, too. At least it wasn't cancer, and all of
his blood tests were fine.

He spent his first couple of years of life as a feral, so didn't have
the best start in life. He already eats just canned food so that's
taken care of.

I'm just marking time until I can go pick him up.


Thanks so much for letting us know, and bless you for being such a
great cat mom. I am so glad it was not anything more serious--this
sounds serious enough.


Will keep him in our prayers and purrs for a speedy recovery.

I have some idea what yous will be going though. My 17 / 18 year old
Kitty had to have four teeth removed last year and it was a bugger
trying to medicate her. With those 4 removed plus the 2 roots removed
when I took her in at 4 years and the fact that her front teeth
between the canines were gone when I got her she does not have many
left.

She stills prefers dry so I buy the smallest dry I can find plus she
eats a bit of canned now.