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Feline Distemper
On Sat, 23 Jul 2005 18:12:56 -0500, Cheryl
wrote: | True! I've seen some survive, even tiny kittens that you'd think | were goners. The survival rate for kittens is very low, but still non-zero. | The good thing is that I believe they are immune for life if | they've successfully beat it. Yes, but I've learned that survival doesn't necessarily mean 100% recovery. One side effect can be damage to the nervous system, which can cause the cat to become uncoordinated at times. By cat standards my Marie is a flat-footed klutz; the vet ventured the opinion that she might have survived distemper when she was a kitten to be this way. |
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On Sat 23 Jul 2005 09:35:16p, Arjun Ray wrote in
rec.pets.cats.health+behav ): Yes, but I've learned that survival doesn't necessarily mean 100% recovery. One side effect can be damage to the nervous system, which can cause the cat to become uncoordinated at times. By cat standards my Marie is a flat-footed klutz; the vet ventured the opinion that she might have survived distemper when she was a kitten to be this way. That's an interesting opinion on your vets part. I've never seen the long-term after effects of panleuk since they were all shelter kitties. Do you think Marie's feet are QOL issues? I think I know the answer to that. -- Cheryl "The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath." - W.C. Fields |
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On Sun, 24 Jul 2005 16:17:24 -0500, Cheryl
wrote: | On Sat 23 Jul 2005 09:35:16p, Arjun Ray wrote in rec.pets.cats.health+behav | ): | | By cat standards my Marie is a flat-footed klutz; the vet ventured | the opinion that she might have survived distemper when she was a | kitten to be this way. | | That's an interesting opinion on your vets part. I've never seen the | long-term after effects of panleuk since they were all shelter | kitties. Do you think Marie's feet are QOL issues? I think I know the | answer to that. No, she isn't literally flatfooted. I meant that she's clumsy. She loses her balance rather easily, which can be painful in my lap, as her claws then come out instinctively. (Yes, I snip regularly but she digs in hard.) Sometimes she miscalculates the jump to the table: she makes it up but then skids to a stop. Her walk is an exaggerated waddle, as if her butt is going to fall over if she swishes any wider. Even so, I don't think she had distemper. This is probably something else, perhaps congenital. We had seen her since her mom brought her out at 6-8 weeks or so, and she had always looked healthy. We caught her at 5 months, usually too late for ferals, but she has been the exception to prove the rule. |
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I think Lilo has some lingering effects from the panleukopenia. She is
healthy, but a very clumsy cat, and easily falls/loses her footing. Her hind quarters at times seem unstable, and back legs will occasionally give out. It doesn't seem to bother her--she is fearless and headstrong--but I do think she had some nerve damage while in the last stages of the illness. Also, she has not grown much--before we realized she had panleukopenia, vet told us she would be a large cat. She is now almost 2 years old, but is just over 7 pounds. I think the parvo also stunted her growth. |
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Also, she has not grown much--before we realized she had panleukopenia, vet told us she would be a large cat. She is now almost 2 years old, but is just over 7 pounds. I think the parvo also stunted her growth. It often does. I know a cat that survived Parvo but his equlibrium was affected. He never could walk straight again after the infection. I was sure it was from an inner eat problem from the Parvo but reading what you and Arjun posted, now I don't know... -L. |
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Kittens can be exposed to the distemper virus en utero, which causes the embryo to develop pretty much without a cerebellum (cerebellar hypoplasia). I have such a cat, who was taken as a feral kitten at 4 weeks. Twelve years later, Tipsy is still with us and still going strong. In Tipsy's case, her mother was exposed to distemper the year before and became a carrier to her kittens. Sharon Talbert Friends of Campus Cats On Mon, 25 Jul 2005, Arjun Ray wrote: On Sun, 24 Jul 2005 16:17:24 -0500, Cheryl wrote: | On Sat 23 Jul 2005 09:35:16p, Arjun Ray wrote in rec.pets.cats.health+behav | ): | | By cat standards my Marie is a flat-footed klutz; the vet ventured | the opinion that she might have survived distemper when she was a | kitten to be this way. | | That's an interesting opinion on your vets part. I've never seen the | long-term after effects of panleuk since they were all shelter | kitties. Do you think Marie's feet are QOL issues? I think I know the | answer to that. No, she isn't literally flatfooted. I meant that she's clumsy. She loses her balance rather easily, which can be painful in my lap, as her claws then come out instinctively. (Yes, I snip regularly but she digs in hard.) Sometimes she miscalculates the jump to the table: she makes it up but then skids to a stop. Her walk is an exaggerated waddle, as if her butt is going to fall over if she swishes any wider. Even so, I don't think she had distemper. This is probably something else, perhaps congenital. We had seen her since her mom brought her out at 6-8 weeks or so, and she had always looked healthy. We caught her at 5 months, usually too late for ferals, but she has been the exception to prove the rule. |
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