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Thank you!! So far so good, girl #1's effusion has gone down and is doing great. Girl #2 (dry FIP) is behaviorally back to normal as well. I will have to see how their blood work progresses, and will update this thread. We're still early on in the treatment, but they've responded incredibly well...

Hi everyone, So I've posted before about one of my three needing help with a rib malformation, and luckily a year and a half later he is doing great. Sadly, my two girls (who are sisters) were recently diagnosed with the extremely dreaded FIP. The first to be symptomatic was at death's door...

I gently massaged his sides every day multiple times a day trying to basically guide them into a normal shape. His case was extremely severe but by three months he was normal. When they're little, their bones haven't fully hardened and doing physical therapy to reshape them can really work...

It's been a while... hopped on today and saw another thread that gave me the idea to update this one. Fell in love with the little guy from the thread and ended up keeping him. He's now about a year and a half old, and perfectly normal. Thought it would be nice to update everyone (particularly...

We had a kitten with Pectus Excavatum (where his ribs were not only flat but inverted at the tip) in our rescue over a year ago, I had posted a thread for him. I did physical therapy to get his chest shape back to normal. I ended up falling in love with him and keeping him. Here he is at about...

Starting weights are strong, and you want to see weight gains of about 10 grams or more a day. Weigh at consistent times at least once a day, but ideally morning and night. They seem to be doing well so far.

Risk of catching giardia from your cat is very small, and often it's a different strain altogether. Giardia can be present in cats and dogs but they are asymptomatic until a stressful situation, like pregnancy, occurs. The timing would suggest the symptoms were triggered by labor, versus...

Combo testing means you are testing to see if she has either of these viruses already, it does not matter whether or not she's allowed out in the future. Both FIV and FeLV can be transmitted from mom to kitten. If she tests positive for either you should know that information, especially since...

I honestly don't think you should worry so much at this point, she's doing very well. URIs are extremely common and often unconcerning. Most important thing is getting her her FVRCP vaccinations, which you can start at her vet visit. Until she is vaccinated, you should limit her contact with...

Kitten eye infections are something you can treat at home with warm compresses and terramycin (you can get it at drs. foster and smith online - no prescription needed, only $16 versus usually ~30 at the vet). I say this because in all of my times of being to the vet for this issue, the outcome...

It's not going to work instantly. It sounds like she's doing well, don't overthink it. Chronic constipation is a problem, but that's not what's happening here. Constipation in her situation is to be expected and will very likely resolve soon. Stay the course, continue to give her a little bit of...

Give her a teaspoon of olive oil mixed in her food to start, and you can do this twice daily until she poops. Olive oil is a great natural laxative, but it can cause a vitamin A deficiency if you use it every day, so only do this for a day or two and it should work. Beyond that, she would have...

Pure canned pumpkin comes from the supermarket. Just make sure its not pie filling or anything like that, the only ingredient should be pumpkin, a lot of times it's kept in the baking isle. I saw recently that Authority (a cat/dog food brand sold at Petsmart) sells a pumpkin food for digestion...

Weights seem a little low, but what's most important is whether or not they're gaining. The situation is a little tricky now because you don't want to wait any longer if they haven't been feeding, but you also don't want to intervene if she has been feeding and push her over the edge, which is...

Constipation is normal with diet/environment changes, I still would not be worried. I would offer pure canned pumpkin, it works for both controlling diarrhea and relieving constipation. I've found a lot of cats won't eat hill's science diet, so I'm not surprised there. I think the quality is...

If you can use a camera down there, I think it could really help. It would be really easy to miss nursing as it doesn't always last long. I use a nest camera and stream it to my phone. It's come really in handy so I not only know who's nursing, but I always check it before going into the room to...

Ying takes care of cleaning up after her poop/pee, so don't worry about that. Great to hear she is appearing to gain weight!

Roundworms/hookworms are known to stay dormant in the tissue of cats and can become active/shed during the end of pregnancy, which could be why you would not have noticed them. What you're describing in her stool sounds more like tapeworm though, which come from infested fleas. It's good you did...

Agree Fancy Feasts kitten foods tend to be popular with cats. My go-to with nursing moms/kittens is Royal Canin Babycat soft food, because it is extremely soft and kittens wean well onto it, plus moms seem to like the taste. That said, it's expensive and the quality doesn't even reflect the...

That's great to hear he's nursing better! I would definitely use a humidifier (just plain water, no essential oils or anything) if he's next to a radiator, or move him further. I haven't personally seen viruses come about after deworming, which I start at 2-3 weeks and repeat two weeks after...