Hi Everybody,

Enzo has always had strange breathing from a kitten, he is now approx 1 year and 1 month old.

When as a kitten playing he got out of breathe and breathed through his mouth.

As he has gotten older, when he gets to the same stage after running around like a loon for a couple of minutes jumping and stuff after a Da Bird, he only opens his mouth to pant as a last resort but you can hear him struggling to breath through his nose as various stuffling noises are made.

When he drinks he also always seems to make coughy/snorty sounds when he's finished or in the middle of drinking.

We plan to get his heart checked now he's over 1 years old but in the mean time I am so worried about him, he seems to be fine when mooching about and light playing and as per the symptoms above I noted it seems to have gotten slightly better with age?

I don't want to lose the little guy, he's very quickly become the sole attraction in our house hold. :(

Kindest Regards

Jamie

Thank You,

I will get one later as I'm currently working :)

Yes a video of the breathing would be helpful, show a shot of his chest and abdomen at rest and after exercise.

Hi All,

Sorry I haven't been on, well after posting this up here we finally got the chance to get him HCM Tested.

Took him to the one near Bristol so that we know it's been done properly etc

Great news :) He's not got a Heart Condition, surely that is the biggest worry now over with?

Now we've got to work out what his breathing is doing. Like I said he only does it when he's been doing a lot of running about and he also does a coughy kind of noise when he drinks.

Wandering if he could have elongated muscles or flaps that don't work quite right in his throat or something?

Cheers

Jamie