OscarLeBandit
Member Since 2016
Hi everyone!
This just started and I don't know what to make of it! Oscar has started drooling from the side of his mouth. It is very worrying to me. What could this be and why? Should I be worried? It is drool that hangs from the side of his mouth, once or twice a day (it's been 2-3 days now), and I also saw it in the morning on the sheet where he had been sleeping. His breath is also quite bad nowadays.
Oscar is a stray rescue, which complicates things because I don't know how old he is or what he has been eating all his life... He has been abused by someone (a human), abandoned (or he ran away) and when he was found he had just been badly beaten up by some street cats. He was not castrated. His heart was beating so fast, he was so scared, that the vet just said, "He will have a heart attack anyway, let's just put him to sleep." We don't know how long he's been on the streets but from his behavior we reckon it's been a while. I'd say any of these events could have been stressful enough to cause this? He has also clearly been deprived of food; in the beginning he ate hiding under furniture, then ate like he would never get to see food again, and always looking over his shoulder. Now he's calmed down, but he never leaves anything in the bowl. He is at least 8-10 years old, maybe older (as per 2 different vets), and he is also FIV positive.
He's been with me since July and he had a crisis in August which is when I found out he is diabetic. A week to ten days before, a vet had told me he was "clinically fine" though he is FIV and had severe gastro intestinal problems. The emergency vet I took him to when he had a crisis (I thought he was dying, but now I think he was going into a coma. His cute pink nose was turning grey) is now not happy with me because I refuse the food they proposed he must eat for the rest of his life (hard food, with almost 20% carbs). I give him 2 units of insulin twice per day, 12 hours apart. He eats a lot, drinks a lot, goes to the gents a lot and he sleeps a lot. When he first moved in, he slept sitting up, so I don't know if he's just making up for lost sleep (he was always on his guard).
It got really cold in Paris, all of a sudden. Coinciding with his drooling. Could he just be cold? Have a cold?
It's been raining too. He gets very anxious when it is raining. As if it reminds him of being cold and wet on the streets
He doesn't want me to leave the house when it rains, but I obviously have to go to work. In general, he doesn't like me to leave the house, I think he is worried about being abandoned. But when it rains he is more stressed, for some reason.
Please let me know your thought!
Best regards,
Jenny
This just started and I don't know what to make of it! Oscar has started drooling from the side of his mouth. It is very worrying to me. What could this be and why? Should I be worried? It is drool that hangs from the side of his mouth, once or twice a day (it's been 2-3 days now), and I also saw it in the morning on the sheet where he had been sleeping. His breath is also quite bad nowadays.
Oscar is a stray rescue, which complicates things because I don't know how old he is or what he has been eating all his life... He has been abused by someone (a human), abandoned (or he ran away) and when he was found he had just been badly beaten up by some street cats. He was not castrated. His heart was beating so fast, he was so scared, that the vet just said, "He will have a heart attack anyway, let's just put him to sleep." We don't know how long he's been on the streets but from his behavior we reckon it's been a while. I'd say any of these events could have been stressful enough to cause this? He has also clearly been deprived of food; in the beginning he ate hiding under furniture, then ate like he would never get to see food again, and always looking over his shoulder. Now he's calmed down, but he never leaves anything in the bowl. He is at least 8-10 years old, maybe older (as per 2 different vets), and he is also FIV positive.
He's been with me since July and he had a crisis in August which is when I found out he is diabetic. A week to ten days before, a vet had told me he was "clinically fine" though he is FIV and had severe gastro intestinal problems. The emergency vet I took him to when he had a crisis (I thought he was dying, but now I think he was going into a coma. His cute pink nose was turning grey) is now not happy with me because I refuse the food they proposed he must eat for the rest of his life (hard food, with almost 20% carbs). I give him 2 units of insulin twice per day, 12 hours apart. He eats a lot, drinks a lot, goes to the gents a lot and he sleeps a lot. When he first moved in, he slept sitting up, so I don't know if he's just making up for lost sleep (he was always on his guard).
It got really cold in Paris, all of a sudden. Coinciding with his drooling. Could he just be cold? Have a cold?
It's been raining too. He gets very anxious when it is raining. As if it reminds him of being cold and wet on the streets
He doesn't want me to leave the house when it rains, but I obviously have to go to work. In general, he doesn't like me to leave the house, I think he is worried about being abandoned. But when it rains he is more stressed, for some reason. Please let me know your thought!
Best regards,
Jenny
The other two sound like people who know the price of everything but the value of nothing. 
I will continue searching for a good doctor for him and when I find one will look more into his mouth for any tooth fragments/ulcer
