My Cat Is Dying Slowly

Signs that your cat may be dying can include a lowered heart and breathing rate. A healthy cat takes an average of 20 to 30 breaths per minute. When the cat is sick its heart begins to slow down and its body temperature drops from a healthy 1025 c to below 100 c.

All i see is an exceptionally smart and beautiful cat who gave me joy for years and at this point nobody would provide for him daily except me.

My cat is dying slowly. Right before death breathing can change to rasping and jerky as the respiratory system starts to shut down. I feel like he is starving to death at an exceedingly slow rate and i am responsible to find what he will eat. My husband said satan is exploiting my emotional attachment. Use a stopwatch and count the number of heartbeats you feel in 15 seconds then multiply it by 4 to get the beats per minute.

Initially your cat will experience rapid labored breathing but as further organ failure occurs respiration weakens and slows. A healthy cats heart rate is between 140 and 220 beats per minute. The changes are triggered by a reduction in blood flow and are not painful. You can either take its temperature by placing a thermometer behind its ear or by touching its paw if they are cold that means body temperature is dropping.

Too slow accompanied by reduced heart rate. This means less oxygen is available in the bloodstream. However once a cat begins to age it slowly progresses towards emaciation. As the heart weakens its no longer able to pump the lungs efficiently.

The complexities occurring due to the failure of organs often get merged with the symptoms of a cat dying. Cats old age dying symptoms include irregular breathing too fast accompanied by rapid spasms. As death nears the cats breathing can be rapid slow noisy or even be pauses between breaths apnea in the dying cat.