My mom bought a kitten, found out it has heart problems less than a week later (please read)?

If she doesn't want to give him up, then she should take him to a cardiologist. If you are talking about the national chain Petsmart, they don't sell animals, they adopt them from humane societies and shelters. So Petsmart is not directly responsible for the problem, the shelter is. When you get an animal from a shelter, there is no guarantee that the animal will not develop health problems. It is possible that the kitten developed the problem after the neutering. A young kittens heart rate can be as high as 200 beats per minute, so if the heart rate at the time was slower, it may have been thought to be normal.

I am sorry about your kitten, and I hope that you can find an answer.

She can't give him back to petsmart. They won't adopt him out. They also won't pay for the cardiologist so your mom has to decide if she is willing to go the extra yard for this kitten.

One thing though, heart murmurs can get better and the abnormally high heart rate can be from alot of stress. I wish you the best of luck

Cats should not be declawed anyway

They say everything happens for a reason even if we don't know what that reason is. First off, getting your cat declawed is inhumane and will effect it's emotional and physical well being. It's so sad when people do this. I wouldn't give the kitten up either but if your going to keep it you have to accept the responsibility that goes along with taking care of her. Don't expect Pet smart to pay the vet bills because If you keep the kitten they aren't legally responsible for it anymore.

I wish you the best of luck with whatever decision you make!

keep the kitten and take it to a cardiologist. if you give it back to petsmart, they will let it die because they are too cheap to spend money on it. don't give him up, he needs medicine and if he is given the right treatment you can save him.

thats alful i luv kittens and its stupid that petsmart would sell kittens, and not hav a full backround of the kittens problems. I think you should keep the kitty and try ur best to buy its medicide as needed.

Not that this helps in any way, but I'm against Petsmart all the way after watching numerous videos of abuse with their animals, and the animal suppliers' added abuse.

2 1/2 months old is way to young for them to even nueter a cat. they generally wait until they are at least 4-6 months old.

so they probably lied about that. second if they told you nothing was wrong with the cat, and you paid money for it, they should take care of all the needs of the kitten.

therefore they do not know what they are talking about, and trying to sell a kitten with a heart problem wont happen, it will sit there for months and either die, because they may not take good enough care of it, or they will just send it to the pound, in which they will probably kill it.

the poor kitty. definetly keep him!! most likely what they will do (petsmart) is put the kitty down if you gave him back.