Thread: Weight problem?

Have to agree with Louie-Louie that the back tooth looks quite sore & painful,couldn't see that there is anything wrong with the front teeth.It is quite unusual to get a retained baby tooth at the back & by now I would have thought it would have come out if it was going too,I think I would have another word with your vet because yes that is most probaly what is causing a smell.Isn't he good letting you hold his mouth open I would have had no chance of getting pictures of any of mine like that.

That back tooth does look infected and infected gums can really smell. You may need some antibiotics from your vet to get rid of the infection. I'm impressed with you getting his mouth open like that though!

Ok, now imagine that my cats gums are like Invisible's, but all of them. They 're red near the teeth.
Unfortunately, mine wont let me take a picture of him. He 'll rip me apart....!!!!!!!!

Today I took Obi to vet. They will pull his front and 2 back teeth out. I am so worried and I feel so sick

Oh dear Im sure he will be fine we have 2 moggys who only have 2 teeth each they manage fine well had put weight on when they went back for there 6 month check up, try not to worry & give him a big hug from us x

He is ok. I'm sooooo happy But he has heart murmur so we will have to visit cardiologist soon

Glad to hear all went ok, nice to have some good news today, wouldn't worry too much about the heart murmur, but best to get it checked out.

My daughters cat was first diagnosed with a heart murmur at a year old,she is now 11 & things haven't changed at all,still graded at 1\6 although once when she had been very stressed it went up to 2\6 but then came down again. Interestingly though we have had a cat in at work only this week that we done a dental on a month ago,that had a heart murmur but not now,the vet thinks it all tied in with the mouth infection,so fingers crossed...

I believe it is possible for murmur to be heard due to stress and extra flow sounds in some cats, but this can clearly also indicate several serious heart conditions. It obviously would be best to get it checked out, and that will require an echocardiogram. My very strong suggestion is to have this done by a true vet cardiologist. Don't know where you are located, but in the USA what you would want is what is known as a Board Certified Veterinary Cardiologist. Unfortunately, it can be difficult to find such a person nearby unless you live near a major city or vet school. Here is the ACVIM site to try to locate a specialist:
ACVIM
(Not sure how up to date this list is, because it does not list the cardiologist we have used in St Louis who moved there a couple of years ago now!)

The reason I say that you need to use a true vet cardiologist is that there are many vet specialty groups that are equipped to do echocardiograms, but our experience with two such groups has been quite poor. They will do fine with common situations, but can end up being completely wrong about unusual ones. Case in point was one of our female cats that was diagnosed has having severe HCM after being echoed following a liver biopsy. Luckily, we were able to get her right in to see a cardiologist who found that the HCM diagnosis was completely wrong!! Instead she found the cat has a fairly rare but benign structural feature that the non-cardiologist radiology specialist had misinterpreted as heart wall thickening. So, I speak from experience when I say that having an echo done by a non-cardiologist is really a waste of your time and money, and may risk your cat's life. The non-cardiologist might get it right or they might not. How will you know? I would drive many hours to reach such a vet rather than use a local non-cardiologist.