Holy Christ, you people are not doing animals any favours by being
abusive and spewing
vitriol at this poster.  Some of you at least offered possible causes
for this cat's sickness, and other just launched personal attacks and
insults without knowing the whole story.
It's understandable you want to encourage the person to take the cat to
the vet.  You can say so firmly and with conviction WITHOUT resorting
to ugly name calling.  Save that for someone who can't even be arsed to
ASK FOR HELP ON A CAT FORUM, instead just kicking the poor thing til it
dies.  You people are so judgemental of people and their problems, you
think that it's okay to be cruel (and you are being excessively cruel)
to someone who (within a quick period of time) has sought advice in the
right place.  Perhaps after any home remedies failed, she or he would
have taken the cat to the emergency clinic, or given him away.  What do
you people do when your vet is away or sick, or you live very far from
one? Just sit there and not seek any alternative help?

Come on, don't make yourselves ugly and make animal rights activists
look like some foul-mouthed bastards.