What a beautiful baby, zoecat!
I bumped up a post that you might read that was created by BunnyMommyentitled "Lesson's I've learned...." It's got some greatinformation in there.
Without the vet doing a culture, it's hard to say whether it could beallergies or pasteurella or something else since the symptomsparallel.If it's Pasteurella, the little one needs tobe placed on meds and can survive, but not without the meds for therest of he life.
As I wrote in another post:
Total elimination of the Pasteurella, especially the rhinitis,infection is difficult, if not impossible. The bacteria lies asequestered pus in the labyrinthine nasal passages and are isolatedfrom antibiotics. Antibiotics can suppress the nasal discharge, but thebacteria will usually remain and repopulate when the antibiotictreatment is stopped.
Be careful of the vet who diagnoses Pasteurella without doing aculture/sensitivity test. With this test, the vet can determine whatpathogen is causing the infection and provide the antibiotics needed.Different strains (i.e., Bordatela brochiseptica, Streptococcus, etc.)would call for different antibiotics, but they're often misdiagnosed asPasteurella because the symptoms parallel.
Keep us posted. I'll be praying for you and yours.
-Carolyn
