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My 10 year-old cat Hote was given a tentative IBD diagnosis this summer after I brought him in for chronic diarrhea. He was prescribed a half pill of metronidazole twice daily until his stools firmed up, then a half pill once daily long term. This worked great, and he hasn’t had recurring diarrhea for a few months, just once or twice in August and September! But for the past four or five days, his stools have been mostly light brown or a very light clay color on the outside and mottled clay brown on the inside, and they smell very odd. It’s hard to describe, but yesterday he passed two normal dark brown stools that smelled like you would expect along with the others, which made the difference obvious and (to me) alarming, /-: His behavior seems normal to me, maybe a tad sleepier than usual, but when he’s awake he’s bright, playful and eating well. No vomiting now for almost two weeks after he had a flare up for several days that saw him puking in the mornings before his breakfast. He has been steadily losing weight after I switched him to wet food in July, down from 23 to 17 lbs as of last vet visit on Nov 16th, which I thought was a good sign. But now I’m worried that his liver or pancreas are inflamed/damaged and he’s not digesting his food properly. Has anyone had a similar experience? I’ll be calling the vet tomorrow, just want some insight to take with me since I sometimes feel like a hypochondriac by proxy when I bring him in for vague symptoms.
(I have pictures if they would help, not sure if stool photos violate the forum rules.)
(I have pictures if they would help, not sure if stool photos violate the forum rules.)