Hey all,
This is my first post, I'm looking for a bit of advice from anyone who might have had similar issues!
Three weeks ago me and my partner got a new kitten, she's now 10 weeks old and since getting her shes had problems with diarrhea. We got her from a friend of a friend who's cat accidentally got pregnant and she was trying to rehome the kittens. Whilst with her, all kittens from the litter had been wormed, but they were on adult cat food because it's apparently all they would eat. They also hadn't been vaccinated because vets are only taking in emergencies due to coronavirus, but she'd only been inside with the rest of her litter.
When we took her home we wanted to take her off the adult food right away and onto kitten food, when we did she almost immediately got runny stools, so we went back to her previous adult food with a mix of kitten to try and slowly move her across. It didn't improve so we got advice from the vet who said it could be down to stress of moving, and diet change so to give it a couple of days and get back to them if it hadn't improved.
Nothing improved so went back to the vets who gave her a check up and told us she needs to get off adult food immediately and onto something softer on her belly, plus a probiotic. We put her onto Hill's ID Digestive Care prescription food and a probiotic, both given to us by the vets.
Still no improvement so back to the vets once more! This time they noticed she had a small fever and put her on antibiotics thinking it could be a bacterial infection in her belly, advised us to continue with the probiotic and Hills ID for the next week. Then get back to them if no improvement in 5 days.
We had some success and her morning poo is now firm after two days on antibiotics! But once it comes to lunchtime and evening they go runny again! We've had the exact same thing happen today.
She is full of beans, drinks plenty of water, and has a strong appitite. Since going on the antibiotics she's become even more playful, with lots of zoomies around the living room and gets very vocal when she's hungry! Which makes me think it could be working? I might just be being impatient but it seems odd that we're now getting a mix of wet and hard poo!
Has anyone else had this problem with their kitten and could offer some advice? If there's no improvement by Thursday it's back to the vet to test a faecal sample for any nasties.
Thanks, Kate xx
This is my first post, I'm looking for a bit of advice from anyone who might have had similar issues!
Three weeks ago me and my partner got a new kitten, she's now 10 weeks old and since getting her shes had problems with diarrhea. We got her from a friend of a friend who's cat accidentally got pregnant and she was trying to rehome the kittens. Whilst with her, all kittens from the litter had been wormed, but they were on adult cat food because it's apparently all they would eat. They also hadn't been vaccinated because vets are only taking in emergencies due to coronavirus, but she'd only been inside with the rest of her litter.
When we took her home we wanted to take her off the adult food right away and onto kitten food, when we did she almost immediately got runny stools, so we went back to her previous adult food with a mix of kitten to try and slowly move her across. It didn't improve so we got advice from the vet who said it could be down to stress of moving, and diet change so to give it a couple of days and get back to them if it hadn't improved.
Nothing improved so went back to the vets who gave her a check up and told us she needs to get off adult food immediately and onto something softer on her belly, plus a probiotic. We put her onto Hill's ID Digestive Care prescription food and a probiotic, both given to us by the vets.
Still no improvement so back to the vets once more! This time they noticed she had a small fever and put her on antibiotics thinking it could be a bacterial infection in her belly, advised us to continue with the probiotic and Hills ID for the next week. Then get back to them if no improvement in 5 days.
We had some success and her morning poo is now firm after two days on antibiotics! But once it comes to lunchtime and evening they go runny again! We've had the exact same thing happen today.
She is full of beans, drinks plenty of water, and has a strong appitite. Since going on the antibiotics she's become even more playful, with lots of zoomies around the living room and gets very vocal when she's hungry! Which makes me think it could be working? I might just be being impatient but it seems odd that we're now getting a mix of wet and hard poo!
Has anyone else had this problem with their kitten and could offer some advice? If there's no improvement by Thursday it's back to the vet to test a faecal sample for any nasties.
Thanks, Kate xx