I took in an orphan kitten who was approximately 2 wks old when we got her. Immediately began bottle feeding with KMR, and she's always had a healthy appetite and has been behaving, acting, and growing normally. She has been to the vet 3 times [once for an initial checkup in which she was given dewormer].
Sugar is now a little over 4 weeks old and she's had a slew of issue so far.
Originally she was pooping normally, and then all of a sudden she started having a bloody butt and seemed constipated. I took her to the vet and she did a stool sample which came back clear and then gave me some ointment for her butt. Sugar continued playing and eating normally.
The issue was not getting any better and her stools were harder and not coming very often and there was still blood around her butt a lot of the time so I took her to a different vet [since we have a small town our vet is only part time and I took her to the neighboring town's vet]. This was last Monday. The vet said it was most likely irritation from being constipated and gave her lactulose, did another stool test and said that it was negative for coccidia and giardia but still but her on a treatment of Albon just in case. I gave her the lactulose as directed and then Friday she had a really big mushy yellow poop. She ended up having loose poops two more times that night, began being a lot more playful and I stopped the lactulose.
She finished up her Albon today and her poop is super runny. It has been for the past 2-3 days. I've had to change her bedding at least 2 times a day and she still hasn't figured ou the litterbox. She poops in the box on her own and when I have her out for feeding and plays, she poops on the towel I put down. It's as if she can't control it cause she poops and walks and poops some more. It's liquidy and yellow and for the first time tonight there was one drop of it that had what appeared to be some clearish mucus with a drop of blood. She is still eating normally and acting completely fine but her stool has not yet become regular.
I read that mucus in stool could be giardia or coccidia but the vet tested her for it and it was negative + gave her the Albon treatment as precaution.
Does anyone know why this could be this way and what I can do to help remedy it? When I called the vet the techs did nothing to answer my questions and the vet was not in as usual.
Sugar is now a little over 4 weeks old and she's had a slew of issue so far.
Originally she was pooping normally, and then all of a sudden she started having a bloody butt and seemed constipated. I took her to the vet and she did a stool sample which came back clear and then gave me some ointment for her butt. Sugar continued playing and eating normally.
The issue was not getting any better and her stools were harder and not coming very often and there was still blood around her butt a lot of the time so I took her to a different vet [since we have a small town our vet is only part time and I took her to the neighboring town's vet]. This was last Monday. The vet said it was most likely irritation from being constipated and gave her lactulose, did another stool test and said that it was negative for coccidia and giardia but still but her on a treatment of Albon just in case. I gave her the lactulose as directed and then Friday she had a really big mushy yellow poop. She ended up having loose poops two more times that night, began being a lot more playful and I stopped the lactulose.
She finished up her Albon today and her poop is super runny. It has been for the past 2-3 days. I've had to change her bedding at least 2 times a day and she still hasn't figured ou the litterbox. She poops in the box on her own and when I have her out for feeding and plays, she poops on the towel I put down. It's as if she can't control it cause she poops and walks and poops some more. It's liquidy and yellow and for the first time tonight there was one drop of it that had what appeared to be some clearish mucus with a drop of blood. She is still eating normally and acting completely fine but her stool has not yet become regular.
I read that mucus in stool could be giardia or coccidia but the vet tested her for it and it was negative + gave her the Albon treatment as precaution.
Does anyone know why this could be this way and what I can do to help remedy it? When I called the vet the techs did nothing to answer my questions and the vet was not in as usual.
