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Chiming in late but wanted to add: I make S. Boulardii "truffles" for my VERY finicky cat. I flatten half a Greenies pill pocket and put the S. Boulardii in the middle, then squeeze the sides of the pill-pocket "wrap" together and roll it into a teeny ball. Then I roll the ball in FortiFlora...

Just wanted to come back to close the loop on Gracie's situation: she's A-OK! The small post-bum-poking/vet-visit diarrhea-like ploops noted above (13 days ago) were clearly a stress- and poke-induced anomaly -- no further diarrhea since. I didn't take her back to the vet, and didn't put her on...

Great news @ASL! @gabicards, what kind of daily probiotic do you use?

Yeah, the towel doesn’t work on her. And I have to do this on my own, so I only have one set of hands. I’ve been doing a little at a time over the past couple of days, which seems to be working. It’s much less stressful for her (and me) that way.

Just want to chime in with another vote for S. boulardii. It was recommended to me on this forum lat week (my cat had stress colitis and several days of extreme diarrhea). Three days after I started giving it to her, the diarrhea came to a sudden and immediate stop. Then no poop at all for three...

Thanks, @NekoM -- the challenge is that she won't sit still. If she would just STAY PUT, I could just use cat shampoo (or Dawn or what have you). But it's like trying to catch a squirrel. It may just be a matter of lots of fast, single wipes with a wet washcloth over an extended period of time...

Yeah, it was the vet who told me to remove as much residue as I can before I take the cone off. I specifically asked because I thought, “Surely, she shouldn’t lick this stuff…”

Hello! Gracie licked her bum raw a couple of weeks ago. The the short version of the long story is: she had several days of anesthesia- and stress-induced diarrhea after a dental extraction, wound up with an impacted anal gland, and obsessively overgroomed the area. She was given Topagen...

The vet has (just now) suggested metro or tylosin -- is the latter as bad as the former?

That sounds super-extreme. Could it not just be the stress of the visit today, and a stress-colitis flare up? The clinic was really loud, they poked and prodded her rear end, did a rectal exam (inserted finger et al.), shaved and washed her bum, applied ointment there, etc. I also wiped her...

THIS JUST IN: she has pooped! I took her back to the vet today because she seemed really lethargic. She got a full once-over, all is fine, everything is healing. Not constipated. In fact, the vet said she felt a poop in the chute, and figured it would happen soon. About five minutes after we...

This just in: Gracie has pooped! A lot, actually. We just got home from the vet, and she's gone 5x in the past 15 minutes. The first one was solid, but they've been getting progressively softer. The last one was close to diarrhea, so I'm really hoping we're not starting the cycle again. Edited...

My cat sometimes throws up water if she drinks too much of it on an empty stomach, and it's much like what you describe -- I'll find a little puddle of clear-ish, very slightly tinged fluid.

One additional thing that just smacked me in the head: I changed her litter box after the ER-vet visit. She couldn't maneuver (with the cone on) in the one she always uses, and was getting panicky and freaked out each time she bonked her cone against the side, so I swapped it out for a HUGE one...

Yeah, I’m not sure I want to give her anything laxative-y just yet. But I’ve noted your suggestion (thanks!) in case things don’t improve.