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Hello Friends, I need some advice, I'm a first time Cat Mom. Basically everything makes me nervous and I tend to run to the Vet right away. There are multiple things that are going on simultaneously, so I'm not sure what's causing what. My 4 year old Persian cat Luigi has been having bloody stools for the past month. I took him to the Vet twice since then, he has no parasites and his blood test is good. He is currently on the prescription rabbit diet. We didn't check for polyps, because he gets super stressed and needs to be sedated, so I wanted to wait and see if diet will help. We also got a new kitten. Here is how our problems started:
1. In October Luigi started having some constipation, I have been changing his food to grain free, but he wasn't eating it so I went back to Medley's by Fancy Feast - I added pumpkin and his constipation seemed to improve
2. End of November - Luigi swallowed balloon ribbon, which he threw up and pooped up, but his constipation later returned - I'm not sure if it was related to ribbons. I had to give him either pumpkin or coconut oil to produce poop.
3. End of December - My boyfriend got me a small kitten!!! Also, I took Luigi to the Vet to get X-rays because I feared that the ribbon didn't come out. The results showed a minor obstruction, possibly hairball the Vet said. She prescribed us laxative (human Miralax, the goal was to get his stool soft). We had almost instant results, I was supposed to give him 1/4 tsp until stool then reduce to 1/8. It so happened then when I would reduce to 1/8 he wouldn't poop and 1/4 gave him diarrhea. I stopped giving him laxative after about 3-4 weeks, his stool seemed to be ok, but visibly firmed up.
4. January - Luigi was pretty much on the laxative
5. February - I first spotted little blood in the stool. Of course I immediately took him to the vet and we checked for parasites etc - everything came back normal. She gave him antibiotics for 5 days. It seems like the antibiotics caused him a little constipation, but I didn't dare giving any more laxatives.
6. End of February - I took him for a second visit and got prescription rabbit diet - He eats, sleeps, super playful and no vomiting, no other signs of discomfort, except I saw some fleas and gave both cats flea medication.
Now, my question is - could this bloody stool be as simple as stress from a new kitten?? Or food allergies? The Vet advised to eat rabbit food for a whole month. He started with little strings of blood and now he sometimes has about 1/4 teaspoon usually when he produces large poops and it seems rabbit food makes him poop. The good thing is he definitely got regular nice soft bowel movements, but what is the blood?
I'm worried and I've already changed the vets, this one I really like. My boyfriend wants to go get second opinion, but I'm not sure. Because what is the other Vet going to do, they will still need to do same tests. My current Vet said we have about a month to play around, but the next step would be to check for polyps. Should I take that next step and take him to get colonoscopy ? I'm just worried that it will stress him more and we will definitely need to sedate him for this, otherwise he will go crazy. He hisses a lot when we take him to the Vet.
PS. Luigi east Royal Canin select protein rabbit diet wet and dry, it seems like he doesn't have blood with wet, could the dry be causing it?
Any advice is appreciated. Sorry for long message.
Attached are 2 photos of what I consider significant amount of blood, is it?
1. In October Luigi started having some constipation, I have been changing his food to grain free, but he wasn't eating it so I went back to Medley's by Fancy Feast - I added pumpkin and his constipation seemed to improve
2. End of November - Luigi swallowed balloon ribbon, which he threw up and pooped up, but his constipation later returned - I'm not sure if it was related to ribbons. I had to give him either pumpkin or coconut oil to produce poop.
3. End of December - My boyfriend got me a small kitten!!! Also, I took Luigi to the Vet to get X-rays because I feared that the ribbon didn't come out. The results showed a minor obstruction, possibly hairball the Vet said. She prescribed us laxative (human Miralax, the goal was to get his stool soft). We had almost instant results, I was supposed to give him 1/4 tsp until stool then reduce to 1/8. It so happened then when I would reduce to 1/8 he wouldn't poop and 1/4 gave him diarrhea. I stopped giving him laxative after about 3-4 weeks, his stool seemed to be ok, but visibly firmed up.
4. January - Luigi was pretty much on the laxative
5. February - I first spotted little blood in the stool. Of course I immediately took him to the vet and we checked for parasites etc - everything came back normal. She gave him antibiotics for 5 days. It seems like the antibiotics caused him a little constipation, but I didn't dare giving any more laxatives.
6. End of February - I took him for a second visit and got prescription rabbit diet - He eats, sleeps, super playful and no vomiting, no other signs of discomfort, except I saw some fleas and gave both cats flea medication.
Now, my question is - could this bloody stool be as simple as stress from a new kitten?? Or food allergies? The Vet advised to eat rabbit food for a whole month. He started with little strings of blood and now he sometimes has about 1/4 teaspoon usually when he produces large poops and it seems rabbit food makes him poop. The good thing is he definitely got regular nice soft bowel movements, but what is the blood?
I'm worried and I've already changed the vets, this one I really like. My boyfriend wants to go get second opinion, but I'm not sure. Because what is the other Vet going to do, they will still need to do same tests. My current Vet said we have about a month to play around, but the next step would be to check for polyps. Should I take that next step and take him to get colonoscopy ? I'm just worried that it will stress him more and we will definitely need to sedate him for this, otherwise he will go crazy. He hisses a lot when we take him to the Vet.
PS. Luigi east Royal Canin select protein rabbit diet wet and dry, it seems like he doesn't have blood with wet, could the dry be causing it?
Any advice is appreciated. Sorry for long message.
Attached are 2 photos of what I consider significant amount of blood, is it?