I would like to tell this, so that it won't happen to anyone else. Firstly, to encourage you to take your pets to well known or highly recommended vets. Sometimes, you trust a doctor completely, added to our own lack of experience, it may cost your pet's life, as it happened to me.

My little kitten was named Angel. He was born on January, 1st. 2001. He was a male blue point Siamese.
At first, he had black wax into his ear when he was approximately 3 months old. He didn't eat too much and he was rather thin to my opinion. I consulted this with the vet, but he told me that it was normal, and that Siamese cats tend to be thin.

As the wax was persistent, the vet applied Frontline (it's a medication for fleas) into the kitten's ear, presuming he had mites, without any previous lab test. He used to apply it once a week. One month later, the cat remained the same, so I decided to change the vet.

I took it to another vet. In the first place they measured his temperature. He had high fever, so they assumed he had an infection or a virus. They gave him an oral medication and recommended cleansing the interior of his ear with Ruminal (a medication for otitis) and alcohol. After a month, he vaguely improved, there was still black wax into his ear and he used to scratch near his ear very hard. The vet made me take the kitten almost every day to control him (I later learnt, that taking cats outside their homes, cause them stress and decreases their defences). He was always checked by different doctors, because it's a 24-hour open place. So they never bothered to take the time to check his chart, they acted according to what I reported.

In one of the controls, they asked me about the vaccines he had been inoculated and they told me that he needed the Leukaemia Vaccine. Although he was still with the problem in his ear, they applied it. At the same time, they supplied him a pill for parasites (although his faecal material analysis was negative). What I found out too late is that to apply a vaccine to a cat, it must be in good health, otherwise their defences are low, and the effect of the vaccine can be lethal. Of course, I did not know this by that time, as it was my first pet and I didn't have any previous experience with cats. I relied on the vet.

From that moment, my kitten never recovered again, he started getting worse and worse, he had very high temperature (41º grades) and he started loosing appetite. They made me take him EVERY DAY to control him and they started inoculating antibiotics. The applied 15 shots in total. All this without making a blood test to see what was really affecting him.

My kitten stopped eating, he presented convulsions, he could not stand in his back legs, later neither in his front legs, and finally he was totally paralysed. I fed him by syringe, because he couldn't eat by himself.
Just after the convulsions they decided to practise some blood tests. They told me it was toxoplasmosis, but they hadn't given me the results at that moment. They prescribed him medicine for toxo, they applied some serum, but of course, unsuccessfully. He was yet too ill.

After a month since they applied that vaccine, my kitten died, his weight was 1 1/2 kg, and he was only 5 1/2 months. On July 21st, he died totally devastated and having been an object of experiments. I do not think this people had acted like on purpose, but there is no doubt that they did not apply the minimum medical criteria, they should have made lab tests before medicating him.

Although it's been almost a year since he died, I write this with a terrible pain, I still can't recover from this. No one is going to bring my kitten back, but al least I don't want this to happen to anyone and it would be nice that "doctors" like these ones I met, take at least 5 minutes to check the antecedents of the animal before proceeding.

Not much later after this happened, I brought 2 Siamese kittens home, to help me fill the emptiness. They are Isis and Kareem, female and male, 10 and 9 months respectively. They are perfectly healthy and luckily I found 2 excellent doctors who guided me in their care. Although I will never forget Angel and the pain will never go away, these 2 little pieces of life, fulfill me with joy.