Is a HEART MURMUR serious?

i want to adopt one BUT it has a heart murmur which is that blood doesnt flow too fast or enough around his body..his medication costs 100$ for one year..im asking to see if any1 has had a pet with a health condition..do they die suddenly :cry: ? the guy there said alot of cats have heart murmurs and live up to 20 BUT there is a SUDDEN DEATH period like at 12-13 years old :o

the cat look something like this

I has catSovereignty5

hmph...

I knew a woman who died in her sleep before the age of 50. Turned out she had some type of heart murmur and no one knew about it.

I assume same thing could happen to a cat.

My hypothesis is that in the medical world, anything concerning the heart is serious.Zagrius

i second that... anyway why are you going to pay for damage goods...sorry for being inhumain but its true

[QUOTE="Zagrius"]My hypothesis is that in the medical world, anything concerning the heart is serious.joshi1s3

i second that... anyway why are you going to pay for damage goods...sorry for being inhumain but its true

its 100$ a year so its like a couple of cents a day..it wont require any surgery and stuff im just scared..i asked to see if any1 has had a pet with heart murmur :(

I don't understand why you'd consider a cat with a defect. It's like buying a tires that have a chance of blowing in a year or so. But if you buy some stuff for them, they might not.

I acutally had a heart murmur when I was young but it basically healed itself.

I don't understand why you'd consider a cat with a defect. It's like buying a tires that have a chance of blowing in a year or so. But if you buy some stuff for them, they might not.

I acutally had a heart murmur when I was young but it basically healed itself.

FragStains

if you see it youll kill me then adop itself..i havent seen anything like it

My vet found a heart mumur in my first puppy, he said 90% of the murmur's are harmless and don't affect the pet. The other 10%, however, will result in death. Unfortunately, my puppy was one of those 10% murmurs.

He said she could live for a year, and just randomly die. So we put her down, and found another. I didn't wanna be heartbroken afterwards.

Heart Murmurs aren't always a problem. It depends on the seriousness of it. All murmurs are is a "defective" heart beat, just a different sound than normal, which can be a result of many things. Valves not working properly, too much blood flowing, etc.

Depends what kind it is....but if medication is capable of fixing it then its obviously not a serious defect and it should be fine.

But even if there is a chance of it dying, if I was you id rather give it a home and have it be happy and then die, rather than having it sitting in a cage for the remainder of its lifetime just because of a defect which most people dont even know what it is.

sell your cat on eBay before it dies.

sell your cat on eBay before it dies.

Dopemonk736

Yea it does matter

Heart Murmurs aren't always a problem. It depends on the seriousness of it. All murmurs are is a "defective" heart beat, just a different sound than normal, which can be a result of many things. Valves not working properly, too much blood flowing, etc.

Depends what kind it is....but if medication is capable of fixing it then its obviously not a serious defect and it should be fine.

But even if there is a chance of it dying, if I was you id rather give it a home and have it be happy and then die, rather than having it sitting in a cage for the remainder of its lifetime just because of a defect which most people dont even know what it is.

Tony-Sinclair

Adopt it and make it happy if it's about to die. No one is going to want the kitty with a heart murmur.DrSponge

yeah ill adopt it..the guy said that ppl didnt want him because of his murmur :cry: ..

My cat looks a lot like that. She's a Persian cat also, but gray in color. I lurrves mah kitteh. :cry: