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..and what should we be doing?
Our cat, Pumpkin, has been heaving this past week or so. First, it was just like she was short of breathe but during the last couple of days, she's been doing it with her tongue fully stuck out. The poor thing!! I'm so worried about her. Her heaving today seems to be more exaggerated, heavier than before.
I spoke with a cat lover friend, who seems to think that Pumpkin wants to throw up fur-balls but she can't, since we're now in an apartment and there's no grass for her to eat (unlike in our house in Singapore where she was always running around in the garden). My friend suggested feeding Pumpkin some grass which I did try, but Pumpkin didn't bite - literally!! I then tried to give her some vegetables (just plain non-flavoured green leaves) chopped up very small and she won't eat this either.
We've also been trying to see if there're any fur-balls around her litter area or elsewhere but there's nothing!
I want to take her to the vet, but DH seems to think that all we need to do is to give her some food (which he's going to buy tonight) that's especially made to induce fur-balls. I'm not so sure that that will do the trick.
Pumpkin seems to have lost some weight too.
Shall we take her to the vet on an urgent basis?
Our cat, Pumpkin, has been heaving this past week or so. First, it was just like she was short of breathe but during the last couple of days, she's been doing it with her tongue fully stuck out. The poor thing!! I'm so worried about her. Her heaving today seems to be more exaggerated, heavier than before.
I spoke with a cat lover friend, who seems to think that Pumpkin wants to throw up fur-balls but she can't, since we're now in an apartment and there's no grass for her to eat (unlike in our house in Singapore where she was always running around in the garden). My friend suggested feeding Pumpkin some grass which I did try, but Pumpkin didn't bite - literally!! I then tried to give her some vegetables (just plain non-flavoured green leaves) chopped up very small and she won't eat this either.
We've also been trying to see if there're any fur-balls around her litter area or elsewhere but there's nothing!
I want to take her to the vet, but DH seems to think that all we need to do is to give her some food (which he's going to buy tonight) that's especially made to induce fur-balls. I'm not so sure that that will do the trick.
Pumpkin seems to have lost some weight too.
Shall we take her to the vet on an urgent basis?