I am sharing this as a heartbroken and frustrated owner of an adopted cat from SPCA.
When we first adopted her(hoshiko), her papers put her down as 4 to 5 months old, Which was quite strange as her size was rather big for her age. But we adopted her anyway because we felt we have a connection with her.
And she got along well with the other perfectly healthy cat which we also adopted from SPCA many years back.
Less than 2 months in, she started going into heat and was meowing loudly in the middle of the night. So we decided to bring her back to SPCA to have her neutured as we never tried it with them before. Note that during this period with us, she was a very active and healthy cat with a ferocious appetite.
She came home and was recovering well. But she started sneezing within a month from the surgery. We thought it was an allergy to something and brought her to the vet to find out. First, turns out she isnt around 7 months old as her adult teeth are all grown out and should be around 10 months old. Second, turns out she has contracted cat flu.
She has never been an outdoors cat, and these symptoms only started showing after returning from her neuturing at SPCA.
We were at a lost at how to help her and now all the 3 cats in my house are down with cat flu. It spreads so fast to my other 2 cats. And these 2 are indoor cats. Cat flu is for life, and the medical costs from constant visit to the vet is putting such a huge financial strain on us and putting a huge stress on my relationship with my wife. We can’t even go for vacations because no pet boarding is willing to take my kids in.
We never should have brought her back to SPCA. We love our fur kids very much, but this unnecessary frustration. How do we deal with it? Each time I hear them sneeze and cough, my heart just shatters. And when the medicine runs out we have to bring them back for more because we can’t get prescription antibiotics for some reason.