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Hello everyone....need some advice.
So, we have a foster right now who we have had almost a year. He was a previous stray who we brought in last summer. He has had diarrhea since we brought him in. Sometimes he goes up to 8 times a day. At first we thought maybe it was because he was a stray, and goodness knows what he was eating outside. So we gave him time to adjust, a few months to be exact. At which then we took him to the vet and had him tested for FIV/FELV and a stool sample/culture. Everything came back negative. The vet gave us some antibiotics and he was on them for 2 weeks, which didn't help at all. We decided to take him to another vet for a second opinion. That vet gave is the same results. So now we are kind of at a brick wall. Here it is a year later and still diarrhea. And he is very gassy. He doesn't usually have blood in his stool, but once in a while we may see a small drop here and there. He is not technically our cat, he is a foster. We just want to get him better before we work on finding him a home. But we cannot afford to take him back to any other vets. Any ideas? Any advice? Any suggestions? We have tried the whole boiled chicken and rice thing, didn't work and he wasn't fond of eating it either. He eats dry cat food right now and drinks plenty of water. Other than the diarrhea, he acts normally.
So, we have a foster right now who we have had almost a year. He was a previous stray who we brought in last summer. He has had diarrhea since we brought him in. Sometimes he goes up to 8 times a day. At first we thought maybe it was because he was a stray, and goodness knows what he was eating outside. So we gave him time to adjust, a few months to be exact. At which then we took him to the vet and had him tested for FIV/FELV and a stool sample/culture. Everything came back negative. The vet gave us some antibiotics and he was on them for 2 weeks, which didn't help at all. We decided to take him to another vet for a second opinion. That vet gave is the same results. So now we are kind of at a brick wall. Here it is a year later and still diarrhea. And he is very gassy. He doesn't usually have blood in his stool, but once in a while we may see a small drop here and there. He is not technically our cat, he is a foster. We just want to get him better before we work on finding him a home. But we cannot afford to take him back to any other vets. Any ideas? Any advice? Any suggestions? We have tried the whole boiled chicken and rice thing, didn't work and he wasn't fond of eating it either. He eats dry cat food right now and drinks plenty of water. Other than the diarrhea, he acts normally.