Well, took poor little Dolly to a "new" vet today to try and find the cause of her recurring loose stools when given dry food. I have an old thread on her with pics but the summary is she gets severe diarrhea when taken off her chicken/rice/pumpkin and given any dry food..tried science diet, blue buff, enova, etc. She has had this condition since her rescue in late October and she is around 6 months now. No mucus or blood in the stool, plays and acts like a wild child...but is crazy for our other rescue cats dry food! We have to shut her in another room while we feed them.
three stool specimens later with two different vets, wormed twice (even though they found nothing) and now on Baytril for the 2nd time (first time we took her off it as the stools got worse!).
The "new" vet did all the same stuff, temp, ears, stool, felt her all over, asked about plants in house, were we giving her dairy products, all no! Total today $190..
So, finding nothing obvious, he decided to do a Fecal Pathogen Profile for $103 the results of which will be in from the lab next week.
We continue to pay (over $350 now on our retirement income) with no real results and no end in sight. Guess it wouldn't seem so bad if I thought we were making some progress and we could feed her the dry she wants and we could get away from fixing the hand made food every 2-3 days.
Will update on the fecal profile when it comes in.
See below Dolly (the red) and Spunky crashed after a several hours of hard play!
of 1 yr and 2 months after taking Clavamox for a UTI...... I spent thousands on countless vet trips. I tried EVERYTHING. Nothing worked. Until the day I switched him to a raw diet - in 5 days his poop was completely formed and solid, and has been since.
