Kitten died.

Hello

I work at the humane society. We recently adopted out a 13 week old long haired Siamese mix. This kitten was an orphan but was doing really well when he came in at 6 weeks old. This kitten did come in with a lot of fleas but we did give the cat a capstar pill and he was just fine after that. He was at the shelter until 13 weeks of age, and he was adopted very soon after hitting that age. He was vaccinated at eight weeks old, and again at 12. He was scheduled for his last at 16 weeks.

He was very hyper and playful, and showed a lot of energy. We even gave him a bath with a mild dawn dish soap and blow dryed him before he went home to make sure he was completely flea free and dewormed him against round worms. Having fleas, we were aware he probably did have tapes and was going to give him a pill once we got more stock from the vet which was going to be later that week.

The kitten ended up listless and just suddenly died 4 days later, despite being fully vaccinated , dewormed, and well cared for. This has obviously broken my heart and I could not sleep, trying to search for an answer of what happened. The other two siblings are just fine, but are not long haired. We haven't seen one case of upper respiratory in months, so I do not think that could have been the reason.

I do not think tapeworms would have killed a kitten that quick and young, as this is the first case like this we have ever had. I could understand if it was a long time that he had tapes, but it wasn't. We was going to do an autopsy but the cat had already been refrigerated and the vet said it would not be possible after that.

This was the second case this month, so we are obviously a little confused as well since the other cat is almost the exact same situation.

Any advice or insight? I do feel like this is all of my fault :(.