Liz Buchanan BVSc MRCVS
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Hello Jorn - and of course, you and I both know, that it won't be random - you just haven't found what it is that leads to it, yet. Perhaps it is going on on the inside, where we can't see. A main reason for drooling would be dental disease, but of course you'd expect that to be there most of the time and it sounds as though your vet will have assessed for that. However, another trigger for drooling is when cats are feeling sick and nauseous - drooling is a classic sign of nausea in cats and I wonder whether your vet has run bloods and checked urine, with a view to ruling out kidney disease and pancreatitis (which needs specific, slightly harder to get, tests in order to diagnose properly because we now know that blood lipase, which we used to use, is very unreliable). The thing about cats is, that they didn't evolve a pack instinct like dogs did; dogs find it useful to communicate feelings using body-language. Cats, by contrast, are loners. Perhaps if they look in pain, then predators, competitors and prey are likely to take advantage - at any rate, they tend to mask it. It is not unusual for owners to tell me that cats are not in pain, when I can tell that they must be. Another group of causes would be neurological - if there is a lump or bump sitting on the nerve that promotes drooling, for instance, or even in the brain. If this were the most likely thing on the differentials list for patient, then I might consider a neurologist, but there are many vets who have a strong special interest in neurological cases themselves and don't need to refer.
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