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Does anyone have any experience with chronic giardia in kittens? Especially immunocompromised ones? My FeLV+ “foster” kitten, Loki, has had it off and on since July since we found him.. and I am at my wits end.
The first two rounds, we had him in our small guest bathroom and I cleaned the heck out of his space. At least every other day I would use bleach or Lysol & steam clean the surfaces he touched and clean out his litter box every day, including washing it out and using lysol to disinfect. Paper plates for food, did my best to wash out his water bowl. Washed him bedding and stuffed animal on high + high heat dry daily. The medicine was absolute HELL, this boy is feral through and through (even though he was taken in at 5 weeks…can take a cat out of the wild but can’t take the wild out of a cat ) and to this day I have gnarly scars all over my hands and arms to prove it. Sadly, I don’t think it has helped him trust humans more at the fact that I have had to restrain him and shove nasty medicine down his throat on a regular basis (plus one bout of coccidia, tapeworms, roundworms..).
It’s been 2 weeks or so since he finally tested negative for giardia, so we took to chance to finally move him into our guest bedroom so he could have a lot more room to roam and a cozy bed to lounge on. Since July he has been cooped up in a cold, tiny bathroom and as he got a little older and larger it was clear that he was mentally losing it in there. Come this morning, that all-too-familiar gas is coming out of his booty. Cleaned his litter box, and sure enough, soft stool. I am going to lose my mind. We have done EVERYTHING and now he is in a carpeted environment which will be even more of an obstacle to clean.
One reason we need him we need him well is because we would like to try to find him a better home where he could thrive. One with either no other cats or another FeLV+ kitty. He needs room to run and play and be a true part of a family, and we can’t provide that for him since our other cat is FeLV- and we don’t feel it would be fair to expose him to it But I would not try to journey into that emotional process of rehoming while he is sick.
Does anyone have any success stories or even similar stories of struggle with giardia? Especially in immunocompromised cats?
For cleaning the carpet, how do I go about that? I couldn’t possibly deep clean it with a rented carpet steam cleaner every day for 14+ days, that would be tremendously expensive. I can move him back into the bathroom..but I don’t know if he can handle another 2+ weeks in there mentally.
Does anyone have any experience with chronic giardia in kittens? Especially immunocompromised ones? My FeLV+ “foster” kitten, Loki, has had it off and on since July since we found him.. and I am at my wits end.
The first two rounds, we had him in our small guest bathroom and I cleaned the heck out of his space. At least every other day I would use bleach or Lysol & steam clean the surfaces he touched and clean out his litter box every day, including washing it out and using lysol to disinfect. Paper plates for food, did my best to wash out his water bowl. Washed him bedding and stuffed animal on high + high heat dry daily. The medicine was absolute HELL, this boy is feral through and through (even though he was taken in at 5 weeks…can take a cat out of the wild but can’t take the wild out of a cat ) and to this day I have gnarly scars all over my hands and arms to prove it. Sadly, I don’t think it has helped him trust humans more at the fact that I have had to restrain him and shove nasty medicine down his throat on a regular basis (plus one bout of coccidia, tapeworms, roundworms..).
It’s been 2 weeks or so since he finally tested negative for giardia, so we took to chance to finally move him into our guest bedroom so he could have a lot more room to roam and a cozy bed to lounge on. Since July he has been cooped up in a cold, tiny bathroom and as he got a little older and larger it was clear that he was mentally losing it in there. Come this morning, that all-too-familiar gas is coming out of his booty. Cleaned his litter box, and sure enough, soft stool. I am going to lose my mind. We have done EVERYTHING and now he is in a carpeted environment which will be even more of an obstacle to clean.
One reason we need him we need him well is because we would like to try to find him a better home where he could thrive. One with either no other cats or another FeLV+ kitty. He needs room to run and play and be a true part of a family, and we can’t provide that for him since our other cat is FeLV- and we don’t feel it would be fair to expose him to it But I would not try to journey into that emotional process of rehoming while he is sick.
Does anyone have any success stories or even similar stories of struggle with giardia? Especially in immunocompromised cats?
For cleaning the carpet, how do I go about that? I couldn’t possibly deep clean it with a rented carpet steam cleaner every day for 14+ days, that would be tremendously expensive. I can move him back into the bathroom..but I don’t know if he can handle another 2+ weeks in there mentally.