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Nagano on the day we adopted him

My wife and I adopted a new cat named Nagano on October 14th from a shelter in Lancaster, PA.  We found out after we adopted him that he had gone from 11 lbs to 9lbs while at the shelter, not a good sign.  For the first few days he seemed okay, but then his health started to decline.  Over the last 7 weeks we’ve given him as much love as we could, taken him to the vet 7 or 8 times, gotten many tests, two fluid infusions, several  types of anti-biotics (one he was allergic to and we had to switch quickly) and a few types of food, but he kept running fevers, losing weight and almost all energy.  He was barely moving in the last few days.  After agonizing over  his deteriorating condition with my wife this morning, I made an emergency vet appointment and took Nagano in again.  We had a FIP test taken earlier in the week and unfortunately the test results had come back last night as positive, which essentially means “systemic infection” and could also be contagious to our other two cats.  The vet said we could keep him alive longer with fluid infusions, but he was not going to recover and his quality of life was rapidly declining so we made the decision to euthanize him.  I feel like it was the right decision and I’m happy Nagano isn’t suffering any more, but the whole experience just sucked.

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