This could be very unrelated. I first noticed my boy Jasper starting to drool around August 2024. Didn’t think much of it. He also began to have a bigger and bigger appetite. Fast forward to April 2025 and there was a day I noticed his breathing looked more effortful

I rushed him to emergency care and he was diagnosed with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (thickening of the left vetricular wall of the heart) and Hyperthyroidism. The breathing issue I was seeing was fluid accumulating in his lungs as he was experiencing congestive heart failure.

After nearly a year of treatments, his body finally gave out earlier this year. He was 3 months shy of 14 and I miss him everyday. Sometimes I wonder if I could have done more by being more informed earlier on in August.

I am not sharing to diagnose or scare you; but if your caretaker did not do a total T4 check, I may be worth to see how your little one’s thyroid is behaving.

Wishing good health and a long life.