My new 18 month old cat has been having a few problems lately. I've only had him for around three weeks so I don't know him very well yet. In the last few days, he's thrown up once, and had diarrhea three times. The rest of the time his stools are normal. The diarrhea is very liquidy and gets all over his rear. He's also lost some weight. He is normally skinny, but now his ribs are slighty showing. He's been very active and his normal self though. I'm hesitant to take him to the vet since I'm very short on money and am still trying to pay off Zorro's huge vet bills. I started switching his food about a week ago so I was thinking that maybe that's what is causing the diarrhea. Also, the woman I got him from said that all he did was lay around, and now all he does is play, so I was thinking that that might be the cause of the weight loss.
I'm worried because I just lost my other cat and am scared of losing another one, but I don't want to go back to the vets office quite yet.
Do you think it would be wise to just monitor his behaviour for the next little bit to see if its the food and new excersise causing the diarrhea and weight loss or should I bring him in??
Also, I was wondering what could cause very black goopy eyes?? His eyes need to be cleaned every day or he gets an eye infection. The woman I got him from said that he has been checked over numberous times and the vets couldn't find a reason. Does anyone have any suggestions as to what might be causing it??
I'm worried because I just lost my other cat and am scared of losing another one, but I don't want to go back to the vets office quite yet.
Do you think it would be wise to just monitor his behaviour for the next little bit to see if its the food and new excersise causing the diarrhea and weight loss or should I bring him in??
Also, I was wondering what could cause very black goopy eyes?? His eyes need to be cleaned every day or he gets an eye infection. The woman I got him from said that he has been checked over numberous times and the vets couldn't find a reason. Does anyone have any suggestions as to what might be causing it??