Hi, friends. I'd like to preface this by saying this post is not about my cats. I'm posting for a friend, who is afraid of coming to forums like this. She's had bad experiences in the past in other forums. I've tried to tell her that TCS is amazing but she's super gunshy about joining to ask for help. Her biggest fear is that she'll be told to go to the vet again, even though she's done that already.
The situation:
She has about eleven cats at this point. Too many for her, but she keeps taking them in. Some were not fixed (she has since pulled the money together to get them fixed)
One had kittens and one of the kittens had runny poop all the time. She took him to the vet, the vet gave meds. The meds didn't work. Several vet visits later, the kitten is still sick and the vet tells her it's an infection. Before she knows it, almost all of the cats are sick with the runs. No meds or vet advice seems to be working and the vet tells her it's a infection, but when I asked she said the vet didn't tell her the name of the infection.
She's spent countless $$ already to treat these cats and has even surrendered the original sick one (but directly after the others got sick) in hopes that he could be helped. Now no shelters will take the kittens in the area and she's worried she won't be able to continue to afford their treatment (she's on disability and doesn't have a huge income, she's been borrowing to treat these cats left and right.)
My two questions:
1 - Does ANYONE have any suggestions on to how to help with the runs?? Or any ideas? We're at a loss since the vet doesn't seem to be any help at all and...
2.... does this strike anyone else as odd that the vet didn't put a name to the infection? My gut is telling me something is fishy with this vet, but she seems to trust them since a friend uses them. Part of me is very worried this vet knows she can bleed my friend dry.
The situation:
She has about eleven cats at this point. Too many for her, but she keeps taking them in. Some were not fixed (she has since pulled the money together to get them fixed)
One had kittens and one of the kittens had runny poop all the time. She took him to the vet, the vet gave meds. The meds didn't work. Several vet visits later, the kitten is still sick and the vet tells her it's an infection. Before she knows it, almost all of the cats are sick with the runs. No meds or vet advice seems to be working and the vet tells her it's a infection, but when I asked she said the vet didn't tell her the name of the infection.
She's spent countless $$ already to treat these cats and has even surrendered the original sick one (but directly after the others got sick) in hopes that he could be helped. Now no shelters will take the kittens in the area and she's worried she won't be able to continue to afford their treatment (she's on disability and doesn't have a huge income, she's been borrowing to treat these cats left and right.)
My two questions:
1 - Does ANYONE have any suggestions on to how to help with the runs?? Or any ideas? We're at a loss since the vet doesn't seem to be any help at all and...
2.... does this strike anyone else as odd that the vet didn't put a name to the infection? My gut is telling me something is fishy with this vet, but she seems to trust them since a friend uses them. Part of me is very worried this vet knows she can bleed my friend dry.