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Hello!
This is the old thread, it was getting too big for me to navigate since I am such a novice at posting. Hope I am not breaking some kind of etiquette that I don't know about! (Old thread http://www.thecatsite.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=201501 )
To summarize, kitty peed all over, poo'd all over, has diarrhea and has cost me around $2000 so far in her year of life.
Got a bigger litter box as people suggested but.. she now tracks the poo down the hallway and such, it's so loose that it gets on her paws and I get to follow pooprints down the side of the box, over the carpet, down the hallway, on the walls.. .. yuck.
Going to bring another sample to the vets tomorrow. If they say Giardia it will be the third time, which we treated and disinfected the WHOLE house. I mean the entire thing, moving the sofa and television, new bowls/litter/boxes everyday.
I think about giving her up to someone that has the money, but she is such a sweet cat that I honestly don't think I could. I worry about the following:
1. Children in the house. (Would like to have some soon of my own, If kitty is sick now and through all this I doubt any amount of money will cure her.. not like I can afford it anyway.) Either way, friends have children that come over, don't need them crawling through giardia/diseased cat poo.
2. Her playmate kitty, who would be lost without her, but the vet tells me may be getting ill because of her.
3. Money, I simply cannot spend any more money on her, I worry I can't give her the care she needs, but I worry nobody will take her and she will be put down. (She is the most friendly, approachable, cuddly kitty I have ever known.. though she stinks.. because of being sick.)
4. I worry she is suffering.
To address the peeing thing, I discovered the cause and it seems to be cleared up! She had been sitting on a blanket and unbeknownst to me.. poo dribbled out on it and dried. She then sniffed it, figured it was a box type area.. and peed. Then she tried to bury it. The blanket has been cleaned thoroughly and put away in the attic, we have plenty more clean ones and she hasn't had any pee issues since.
Any help on the poo issue and maybe some advice on what you would do would be greatly appreciated, I am torn. I want to keep her and adore her, she is already a part of the family, but I don't want her to suffer because I can't take care of her and then I don't know if I am making a hazardous place for other animals/people.
Thanks.
This is the old thread, it was getting too big for me to navigate since I am such a novice at posting. Hope I am not breaking some kind of etiquette that I don't know about! (Old thread http://www.thecatsite.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=201501 )
To summarize, kitty peed all over, poo'd all over, has diarrhea and has cost me around $2000 so far in her year of life.
Got a bigger litter box as people suggested but.. she now tracks the poo down the hallway and such, it's so loose that it gets on her paws and I get to follow pooprints down the side of the box, over the carpet, down the hallway, on the walls.. .. yuck.
Going to bring another sample to the vets tomorrow. If they say Giardia it will be the third time, which we treated and disinfected the WHOLE house. I mean the entire thing, moving the sofa and television, new bowls/litter/boxes everyday.
I think about giving her up to someone that has the money, but she is such a sweet cat that I honestly don't think I could. I worry about the following:
1. Children in the house. (Would like to have some soon of my own, If kitty is sick now and through all this I doubt any amount of money will cure her.. not like I can afford it anyway.) Either way, friends have children that come over, don't need them crawling through giardia/diseased cat poo.
2. Her playmate kitty, who would be lost without her, but the vet tells me may be getting ill because of her.
3. Money, I simply cannot spend any more money on her, I worry I can't give her the care she needs, but I worry nobody will take her and she will be put down. (She is the most friendly, approachable, cuddly kitty I have ever known.. though she stinks.. because of being sick.)
4. I worry she is suffering.
To address the peeing thing, I discovered the cause and it seems to be cleared up! She had been sitting on a blanket and unbeknownst to me.. poo dribbled out on it and dried. She then sniffed it, figured it was a box type area.. and peed. Then she tried to bury it. The blanket has been cleaned thoroughly and put away in the attic, we have plenty more clean ones and she hasn't had any pee issues since.
Any help on the poo issue and maybe some advice on what you would do would be greatly appreciated, I am torn. I want to keep her and adore her, she is already a part of the family, but I don't want her to suffer because I can't take care of her and then I don't know if I am making a hazardous place for other animals/people.
Thanks.