Hi everyone,

I hope this is the right place to post this, even on the off chance that someone may have any idea of what could be going on.

Our 14 year old cat had his front leg amputated due to cancer three months ago. Everything appeared to have gone well and he has been recovering nicely, but approximately three weeks ago he had a very odd ‘fit’ where it appeared like he was having trouble breathing. He was panting heavily with his tongue hanging out and drooling, as well a wailing in a way I have never heard him do before. This lasted maybe a minute or two and he was then fine. Two days later it happened again, during the night, and this time we packed him up and took him into emergency. They did an ultrasound which appeared fine, and then sent us to a different emergency clinic as they were too busy to do more tests. This second clinic were of not much use, and basically just gave him a pain shot and told us to take him to our regular vet the next morning, which we did. The vet did a blood test which came back fine. He said there was no need for an x-ray as one had been done recently prior to his amputation.

He’s been fine the last couple of weeks, since the vet visit, but this morning it happened again. We took a video of it and emailed it to the vet, but also just had the idea to post it here in case anyone else might have seen anything like this before. We’ve no idea whether or not this is related to his amputation, but of course potentially could be. Very concerned as obviously he is quite distressed. Any thoughts would be much appreciated.

Like said above, I do have a video which I would have liked to attach but I can't work out how to do it.