Thank You. I appreciate your response. Colbert is a momma's boy It sounds to me that the medications he would be on, would be pills. If I could get him to swallow them without a struggle every time, maybe it wouldn't be so bad. I was thinking about the different illnesses cats get, and if it were something like diabetes where I would have to poke him all the time to check his blood sugars and then poke him again to give him insulin, I definitely wouldn't do it. I have a friend who does that with her cat, but for me, I would feel like I was hurting him all the time.

I just read an article about the condition and it said not to do anything to aggravate the condition - basically anything that will raise his heart rate - like stress, playing, etc. Well, I definitely will keep playing with him. He wants to play, and he's a young cat, I think it would be cruel to not let him play. But, now I know this could make him more sick. That's hard.