Hi everyone,
I have a beautiful 11 month old Turkish Angora who last Friday was struggling to control his bowels and was farting and as a result discharging a large quantity of watery, dark black/green liquid everywhere.
He has been fecal tested (with 3 samples taken within close proximity) for Giardia, Worms & Salmonella. All have returned negative.
He was put on a drip by the vets for two days and on metronidazole. He's finished one course (2x1.5ml per day for 4 days) and is back on another. He's gained weight over the past week since coming back home after the drip (they had him on a special food for sensitive stomachs when he was at the vets the first time) which means he's absorbing his nutrients. We've been instructed to feed him only canned tuna/plain chicken breast which he downs in seconds, he loves to eat! They said his stool was starting to solidify during his time at the vets hence why they discharged him.
His poop looked a little more solid on Wednesday but since then it has gone back to uncontrollable black liquid-esque stuff. It doesn't really smell, but his rectum hurts and he's licking it a lot.
He's been taken back to the vets and to be frank, they are unsure as to what it could be. They are now wondering if it could be IBS (he's been on Whiskas dry food in the morning and a Whiskas pouch all of his life... could IBS suddenly kick in? - unless it's a few licks of cat milk we tested on him a few weeks back that he didn't like)?
They are giving him a steroid to help with the itchy rectum and putting him back on the special cat food for sensitive stomachs to see if that helps.
The vets are baffled because while Tiger is very playful, his normal self, no fever, gaining weight and seems like his perfectly normal self... yet the poops won't go away.
This has been a really difficult week for me, I've honestly cried a few times as I'm worried about him.
Has anybody whatsoever experienced something similar? How can this suddenly happen out of nowhere? He's an indoors cat...
Could this really be IBS? Could the vets orders of feeding him only canned tuna/chicken breast have worsened matters if he has an allergy to them that we don't know about? I'm struggling to sleep at night, honestly. Constantly thinking about him.
Thanks!
I have a beautiful 11 month old Turkish Angora who last Friday was struggling to control his bowels and was farting and as a result discharging a large quantity of watery, dark black/green liquid everywhere.
He has been fecal tested (with 3 samples taken within close proximity) for Giardia, Worms & Salmonella. All have returned negative.
He was put on a drip by the vets for two days and on metronidazole. He's finished one course (2x1.5ml per day for 4 days) and is back on another. He's gained weight over the past week since coming back home after the drip (they had him on a special food for sensitive stomachs when he was at the vets the first time) which means he's absorbing his nutrients. We've been instructed to feed him only canned tuna/plain chicken breast which he downs in seconds, he loves to eat! They said his stool was starting to solidify during his time at the vets hence why they discharged him.
His poop looked a little more solid on Wednesday but since then it has gone back to uncontrollable black liquid-esque stuff. It doesn't really smell, but his rectum hurts and he's licking it a lot.
He's been taken back to the vets and to be frank, they are unsure as to what it could be. They are now wondering if it could be IBS (he's been on Whiskas dry food in the morning and a Whiskas pouch all of his life... could IBS suddenly kick in? - unless it's a few licks of cat milk we tested on him a few weeks back that he didn't like)?
They are giving him a steroid to help with the itchy rectum and putting him back on the special cat food for sensitive stomachs to see if that helps.
The vets are baffled because while Tiger is very playful, his normal self, no fever, gaining weight and seems like his perfectly normal self... yet the poops won't go away.
This has been a really difficult week for me, I've honestly cried a few times as I'm worried about him.
Has anybody whatsoever experienced something similar? How can this suddenly happen out of nowhere? He's an indoors cat...
Could this really be IBS? Could the vets orders of feeding him only canned tuna/chicken breast have worsened matters if he has an allergy to them that we don't know about? I'm struggling to sleep at night, honestly. Constantly thinking about him.
Thanks!