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@oneandahalfcats  Thanks for the info!  It does look like the decreased activity and nausea I'm seeing could be due to the antibiotic.  I'm hoping I'll see an improvement in at least those symptoms over the next few days.  If it is pyelonephritis like @Dr Kris  suggests, though, it sounds like...

Very interesting.  I wasn't familiar with the term, but I just did some reading, and while my boy certainly has some of those symptoms, wouldn't you expect his bloodwork to show abnormal kidney function if this was the case?  His BUN tested at 2.0 when he was in the hospital, not sure about...

Yikes guar gum - I can only imagine how tough that was to figure out and eliminate!  My boy is a pretty picky eater when it comes to wet food (he's a total dry food addict, even though he has no teeth), so the trial and error method is extra tough.   The antibiotic he's on is marbofloxacin...

Thanks to all who have commented here.  Sorry I haven't replied earlier -- for some reason I wasn't getting notifications about responses until this evening.   The fever seems to have stayed away since I brought him home from the hospital, at least according to the pediatric thermometer I...

Thanks for the response. I definitely will get him back to the vet for another urinalysis once the antibiotics are done. Part of what is frustrating me is that even if the results came back the same, none of the vets seem to have any reasonable explanation for what could be causing it, so I...

With apologies for the length of this, here is the situation:   About 6 months ago my kitty suffered from a complete urinary blockage (which I fortunately caught right away), and he ended up having a PU surgery when the doctors discovered that he had abnormal anatomy that made conventional...

I've tried warming (he hates it) and feeding smaller meals.  I might give the Parmesan cheese a shot.  He will eat a little bit, but he isn't excited by food like he used to be, and mostly he just sniffs it and then walks away.  The vet prescribed mirtazapine as an appetite stimulant, but I'm...

My 6 y/o cat was seen by an internal medicine specialist about a week ago for regurgitation (not vomiting) after my normal vet couldn't find anything wrong doing a physical exam and x-rays.  The specialist did an endoscopy and fluoroscopy but didn't find anything abnormal there either.  About...

Really glad to hear the EVO has worked for your girl with the GI problems!  Gives me hope that there might be a solution out there that works for both of my kiddos.   I would guess they were getting about the same number of pieces of kibble you describe - maybe 20 - 30.  Both my cats have...

I haven't tried EVO yet, maybe I'll look into that as a possibility. He always had chicken flavored food (weirdly never liked fish), so that wasn't the issue.  As for proportion of diet, it was about 75-80% wet food, the rest the Blue Buffalo Indoor Freedom dry.   The additional wrinkle in all...

Thank you very much for the link.  A lot of info there to digest, but it's all good to consider.  It's also interesting to hear that there is some anecdotal evidence that Blue Buffalo causes problems.  I did make the switch to Blue Buffalo/Wellness mix within the past year (prior to that his...

My 5 y/o kitty recently went through an awful experience with urinary blockage due to crystals.  We thankfully caught it super early so he never experienced toxin buildup or any of the other horrible things that can happen from blockage, but he ended up needing a PU surgery because he kept...

The test results are back and all seems to be well!  The bloodwork was normal, except for slightly low phosphorus, which I was told doesn't mean a whole lot of anything on its own, but just to keep an eye on it.  The biopsy results just showed that she was reacting to inflammation in her colon -...

One other note for now: the change I can identify over the past few days in their lifestyle/diet/etc is that I dumped a new bag of Hills Prescription Diet i/d (dry) into their feeder.  That was done on Thursday, but there was a tiny amount left of the old food in the bottom of the feeder, so...

The situation has developed in the past few hours.  My other cat, Mickey, developed the same exact consistency/color diarrhea this afternoon.  The vet said that it would be ok to give him the same anti-diarrheal/antibiotic that she prescribed for Molly, but unlike Molly, Mickey was totally...