Help - not sure whether to be worried

[FenellaVelour]

We have four cats and not a lot of luck recently with their health, so I’m getting really paranoid about it. But I’m concerned now about our 9 year old (nearly 10) British shorthair, who has always been in excellent health since we got her 18 months ago.

She’s started opening her mouth when purring, and swallowing like she has a lump in her throat.

Otherwise everything seems okay - she’s affectionate, seems happy, eating, drinking and toileting normally, no outward signs of obvious discomfort.

We’ve been having some work done in our bathroom including removal of tiles and plastering (which has caused some sneezing/snuffling in another cat, now sorted) so not sure if this might have impacted. Cleaned up the dust as best we could and aired the house.

But just worried it might be something else, given the terrible luck we’ve had lately.

Would there be anything more suspicious or concerning that might flag up, do you think?

I'd get it checked. I don't want to alarm you with why, but I would get it checked.

So possibly not wrong to be worried then 😬

I’ll call the vet in the morning.

Mine swallows like that when putting because they're so chilled they're dribbling 🤢

Purring*

@JorisBonson

Mine swallows like that when putting because they're so chilled they're dribbling 🤢

That’s both cute and gross 😊

For Cleo this is a new thing and no dribbling, so I’ll see what my vet has to say.

Hope all is ok Fenella.
I was about to say could she have a fur ball in her throat ?

She is a cat prone to furballs but normally manages to hack them up without issue.

I’ll see what her vet says tomorrow. We will now have taken all four cats to the vet within the last month. Current bill for all this is £3k 😬 thank goodness for insurance.

Luckily the vet saw her early this morning.
Heart sounds normal, temperature normal.
Glands slightly swollen on throat but outward clinical signs otherwise all seem ok.
He thinks she may just have a sore throat (maybe not helped by the plastering) so he’s given her a short acting anti-inflammatory injection and we are to see how she is later. If she improves, they’ll put her on a short course of follow up tablets (joy) but if not they’ll run bloods.
She’s trying to take advantage of our concern and mollycoddling though and is currently constantly asking for Dreamies 🙄

That's good to know.Glad she seems ok.Thank you for updating us 😺