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I definitely qualify as having cat experience, persian cat experience and feline heart murmur experience.
My Blue Persian, Smokey (*THE* Persian Kitty) and the one in my avatar was diagnosed with a congenital murmur when he was 6 months old. This was in 1986 and vet medicine was nothing like it is today. I was told he'd likely not live to see a year of age and that I should talk to the breeder about a replacement. Not being one to think of my pets as replaceable, I decided to let the breeder know what I'd found out and then cross my fingers.
Well.. Smokey lived to be 17 years old and (pun intended) never skipped a beat. He had the murmur the entire time. Sometimes it was worse than other times. Persians are usually live fairly sedate lives so often the murmurs don't effect their day to day routine.
I've had another cat that developed a murmur at the age of 12 years and she lived to be 20.
btw.. Theodore is definitely a cutie.
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