Hi all!
Well Mr Charlie is certainly gonna put us in the poor house at this rate
So as you know he was a stray that came around maybe 3 months ago now. He was a lil bag of bones, couldn't be more than 5lbs in weight. Was feeding him, took me about 6 weeks to convince the hubby we needed another cat on top of the two + baby we already have
He came in, went to the vet, all checked, healthy, vaccinated, boys are all together now!
So the last 4 days I've noticed someone has had bloody poop. I've been trying to catch who it was and finally saw last night it was Charlie (as I suspected)
The blood is on the outside of the poop. When it's on it, it looks darker in colour, but when it touched the pellets (we have the breeze litter system, so pellets are white) it looks bright red. He's eating/drinking well, the only thing he threw up is a hairball.
So fast forward to today, I call to ask the vets and they say bring him in. They check him over, all good, his poop is still negative for worms and such. He's put on TWO POUNDS in a month!! (He's now 11.11lbs) that's more than Winston!! and his coat is fabulous.
The vet said that what he suspects is colitis and some cats get their lower bowels irritated, especially when they've been starved and then get to eat again. He's given me some tablets to give to him. Half a tablet, twice a day. The tablet is called Metronidazole 250mg.
He gave me 2 weeks supply, said finish the course and see if he improves. If not we need to think about switching his diet up to a more high fibre diet (which makes sense to me because I have IBS and have to take fibre supplements to help that!) He said the high fibre would be fine for the other 2 also as its very hard to stop them eating out each others bowls!
So has anyone dealt with this before, can anyone offer me any advice on how to help him?
Thanks much!!
Well Mr Charlie is certainly gonna put us in the poor house at this rate
So as you know he was a stray that came around maybe 3 months ago now. He was a lil bag of bones, couldn't be more than 5lbs in weight. Was feeding him, took me about 6 weeks to convince the hubby we needed another cat on top of the two + baby we already have
He came in, went to the vet, all checked, healthy, vaccinated, boys are all together now!
So the last 4 days I've noticed someone has had bloody poop. I've been trying to catch who it was and finally saw last night it was Charlie (as I suspected)
The blood is on the outside of the poop. When it's on it, it looks darker in colour, but when it touched the pellets (we have the breeze litter system, so pellets are white) it looks bright red. He's eating/drinking well, the only thing he threw up is a hairball.
So fast forward to today, I call to ask the vets and they say bring him in. They check him over, all good, his poop is still negative for worms and such. He's put on TWO POUNDS in a month!! (He's now 11.11lbs) that's more than Winston!! and his coat is fabulous.
The vet said that what he suspects is colitis and some cats get their lower bowels irritated, especially when they've been starved and then get to eat again. He's given me some tablets to give to him. Half a tablet, twice a day. The tablet is called Metronidazole 250mg.
He gave me 2 weeks supply, said finish the course and see if he improves. If not we need to think about switching his diet up to a more high fibre diet (which makes sense to me because I have IBS and have to take fibre supplements to help that!) He said the high fibre would be fine for the other 2 also as its very hard to stop them eating out each others bowls!
So has anyone dealt with this before, can anyone offer me any advice on how to help him?
Thanks much!!