If he were a cow I’d guess circling disease and he would be treated with appropriate antibiotics. He is a cat. He will be taken back to the vet tomorrow, but in the meantime, anyone have a neuro cat who recovered (ie wasn’t a brain tumour, etc)?
History - from same barn as mystery disease cat (teeth all out at a young age, weird blood that seems to respond to a battery of antibiotics when it gets weird, but mostly absolutely healthy) and bovine sarcoid cat who seems pretty darn durable. The barn is also a herpes barn so we keep that in the back of our minds when shit gets weird.
Anyway, we knew young man would eventually also need all his teeth out because he presented the same as weird blood cat mouth-wise. So a little over a week ago he stopped eating with his usual gusto .OK, time for his full extraction. None of the pre-surgery bloodwork came back with anything unexpected. Whites up consistent with battling infection but reds normal unlike weird blood cat. Good, let’s do this thing. As surgery day approached his eating dwindled further. No biggie, just a couple of days to go. Now in hindsight I wonder if his diminished activity level was maybe not due to his lack of caloric intake.
Surgery went fine but he was pretty messed up on anaesthesia when I picked him up. Again, no biggie. I’ve had cats come home messed up and others like they were never put under. First night he didn’t eat. No biggie, sometimes they don’t. He stayed a little groggier than I would have liked but didn’t seem to be suffering from anything more than post anaesthesia wobbles.
Long story short, over the holiday weekend his wobbliness has not improved. In fact like I said above, he looks like he’s in the first stages of circling disease … if he were a cow. He swallows fine but has to be force fed even though he’s hungry 
He gets excited to go into his private feeding room (the bathroom), is excited when I prepare his soft food, takes a few licks and then gives up. Mouth pain seems to be very much under control - I can touch and force feed without feeling like I’m a monster - he just won’t eat on his own.
The circling part is just as concerning. I will actually tail him like a sedated horse or cow when he wants to jump off the bed because maybe 25% of the time he lands in a heap. At least there is a thick rug to land on and it isn’t a high bed. Along with that, he has an intermittent head tilt and occasionally circles to get his balance only to flop down on his side. He does get up without help.
Mostly venting worry over yet another of my weird animals, but I would love to know if anyone else has had a neuro cat recover. (Or did I just throw a lot of money at a full mouth extraction only to have to put him down )
He will be getting an appointment with his doc tomorrow, of course!
