Can a cat with Rickets still be active and walk, run, and climb?

I think perhaps you're asking about Rickets Disease. Rickets is a disease of young, growing animals that causes soft and deformed bones. It is commonly caused by insufficient phosphorus or vitamin D in the diet. More rarely, calcium deficiencies are to blame. As in most diets causing defective bone formation, the cause is typically an imbalance in the ratio of calcium to phosphorus. Animals fed all-meat diets are commonly affected. It's very important to get him on a well balanced diet - I recommend Hills, Royal Canin, or Purina (although I don't know if they are available in Turkey) - to try to correct the issue. Prognosis is generally good, after an appropriate diet is started, unless he's started to have broken bones or his growth plates are affected. I hope that helps!

The outlook for treating rickets is good if there are no broken bones or irreversible damage to the bone. The primary treatment is to correct the diet, and there should be no need for lifelong medication. Best of luck.

Rickets it is extremely rare in cats, especially if they are fed normally with commercial diets. I would really doubt this is the problem. Please complete your question describing the signs you are noticing to receive further advices from us.

Any commercial cat food should have the appropriate amount of calcium and calcium:phosphorous ratio to result in remineralization of the bone. This will not correct any limb deformity or fractures but should prevent these problems in the future. Veterinarians often recommend restricting activity to give the bones time to mineralize, but this often happens quickly ( within a month or so).

He may have a congenital deformity or an injury from before you got him. X-rays would help your vet determine what is going on with his bones to make his walk seem wrong. But there may be nothing we can do to fix it. As long as he can eat, drink, and use the potty, he will be able to adapt to any situation! Just remember that if he has trouble walking he may not be able to get away from other pets, so he should never be let outside, and you may consider not getting any other dogs or cats while you have him.

Hello, sorry to hear about Kairi. It sounds like besides her calicivirus, she is having some difficult time walking? If so, it is believed that this is secondary to osteoarthritis. Young cats with osteoarthritis can often have more than one joint affected and is often something that is management medically. Finding the underlying cause for this osteoarthritis such as infection, an inflammatory response, auto-immune disease, or an old injury must be determined. Surgery may not be able to treat the osteoarthritis but rather help her walk easier. Surgical intervention is often pursued as a salvage procedure and not before diagnosing the source of the osteoarthritis and its effect. I would recommend asking your veterinarian to refer Kairi to an orthopedic surgeon so that they may evaluate her and determine if one or more joints are affected and if surgery or medical management is best for her. Hope this helps and best of luck.

Great question! The only way to tell is by having an x-ray done by your veterinarian - this will show exactly what is wrong with the bone, and will also give the information needed to determine whether it can be fixed or not. I would recommend taking the kitten to your vet for an exam and x-rays as soon as you are able to - he/she will be able to advise you further on what can be done to help the kitten, depending on what the x-rays show.