The reason why I'm asking is because I've hydrated cats using sub qs in the past for various reasons and always judged the amount to give by seeing how long it took for the fold at the back of the neck to fall into place when pinched.

My cat was not dehydrated and maybe during the extreme heat we've been having I may have hydrated him with a couple of 60ccs once or twice. My cat stayed at the vet's for a half day of observation and I did not realize when I picked him up that he was severely dehydrated because he was in a carrier. The skin on the back was so tight it was like wallpaper on a wall. I immediately gave 60cc of lactated ringers and kept giving it until the skin fell back into place. I gave 7-60cc syringes in total.Two hours later I checked the fold and he was 30 percent
dehydrated so I gave 3-60cc more, not randomly but because that's what it took for the skin to just start falling back into place. It didn't look like overhydration at all. However 15 hours later, after urinating twice about 1/4 of a cup each, my cat started to develop shortness of breath at 60 breaths a minute.No other symptoms. I waited for his body to absorb the excess or excrete it because he wasn't in any distress or struggling for breath, etc, if there was excess fluid and I wondered if it was his respiratory problem I was hearing because I had put the vaporizer on his to clear up phlegm and it seemed to, for the most part, so I wondered if it was because of that because the steam was very warm, he was in an enclosed space and a long-haired cat.Well, my cat passed onand I'm wondering what I did wrong.

Did I overhydrate him when I judged the amount to give by fold at the back of his neck? Why did the symptoms come 15 hours later? That's why I had trouble relating it to the hydration. As I said, some cats drink more than that and one cat 1/3 less in weight was given 600ccs at one time and it took three days for the body to absorb it or excrete it but it did with no endangerment of life.Why didn't it happen that way with my cat? I've given, because of dehydration, a seven pound cat 240ccs, two hours later 240ccs,
four hours later 180ccs, and every three to four hours repeating that and the body just kept excreting it. Why didn't it do that with my cat?

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