kolkata if you think contaminated fish stock or adulterated meat affect the health of only human beings wait a minute the veterinary clinics in the city are flooded with pet cats with severe abdominal pain and diarrhoeawhen doctors examined the cats many pets were found dehydrated weak and suffering from abdominal pain the cat owners said that they had either given fish or raw meat to the catsas many as 30 to 40 cats with similar symptoms were bought for treatment to the veterinary hospital in june and around 10 cats in the first two weeks of julyafter consuming the food the cat refuse to eat food and wander around crying desperately do not think it is behaving normally and leave it unattended as it turned fatal one or two cats which had same symptoms died in june due to lack of care said dr mary james veterinary hospitaldoctors have been advising pet owners to give baked fish insteadwe administer antibiotics and mild hematogen to regain health of infected cats besides abdominal pain other major disease that affect the cats in ernakulam is feline panleukopenia a deadly disease affecting white blood cells said dr aiswarya in the government veterinary hospital in kochidr k sooraj said it is air borne viral infection which spreads fast the digestive problems raise from adulterated food when a cat infected with feline panleukopenia walks around it spreads to other cats in the area the white blood cell count drastically comes down and it may lead to the death of the pet around 20 to 25 cats brought to our hospital with the disease in july alone vaccination is the solution to prevent feline panleukopenia from infecting cats he saidurinary infection also affects cats my cat always sleeps with me i noticed he was suffering from health issues and thats why brought 16monthsold cat from my house in aluva to kochi for treatment said mohammed saiyed fondling his persian extreme punch at government veterinary hospital near durbar hall ground