I apologize for writing so much but I feel I can get better help/advice with the more details I give. So if you can bare with me and take the 10-15 minutes or so to read this I would much appreciate it as I could really use some advice from other cat owners.
My 6 month old kitten, Scout, hasn't been of good health over the last 24 hours. Yesterday night he threw up for the first time ever since we found him. At first I thought it was just his first hairball, cleaned it up and thought nothing of it. I started to notice a decline in his activities shortly after, he wasn't interested in playing and just wanted to lay down and not in his usual spots. He would lay down in the middle of the hall ways and when I went to bed he normally sleeps right beside me but this time wouldn't and instead chose a spot on the floor. It was then that I started thinking about how his food had looked untouched all day which I just related back to what I thought was a giant hairball earlier and deemed it as the reason he lost his appetite.
Early in the morning I woke up to find out he had urinated on the end of my bed!!! He has never gone outside of his litter box before. I found him back in the spot he chose before I fell asleep and thought immediately it was very odd. I got up to clean the mess and found a second throw up on my floor. This time I found an object in it. He had eaten one of those things that women use to tie their hair in a ponytail - it's kind of like a rubber band covered in cotton/fiber or something (one of these). It looked like he threw it up sometime during the night. While I was cleaning it I heard him meowing in another room, I went over to see him vomiting a 3rd time. I figured okay well he threw this thing up earlier so he should probably start feeling better soon. Nevertheless I kept him in the bathroom just encase he threw up more.
I went back to bed and as soon as I woke up I went to check on Scout. I found he threw up 5 more times throughout the day. Also looking into his litter box I found a few piles of what looked like clear diarrhea but after looking closer I realized it was more of like a clear mucous/jelly substance, it has no odor. I started really taking notice that he was behaving very lazily. Not covering his waste completely, not eating anything, not drinking, not interested in anything - all he wanted was to lay in his bed only making an effort to get up so he can get to the litter. At this point I decided it's time for the Vet.
I saved the thing he threw up in the 2nd vomit to show the vet when we got there. They seemed to only focus on that he had thrown up the object and that it was a good sign. But I kept stressing even though it was out he still continued to vomit another 5 times and the clear substance coming from his anus was really concerning me. Plus the behavior change and lack of wanting food or water. At home he seemed very out of it and sickly but at the vet he was much more alert so they never saw his actual behavior. At this point they gave me 2 options. Option A) Was to give him Laxatone to clear his system and wait it out. Option B) Was to give him an X-ray to look for any more foreign objects but at $200 I couldn't afford to do that just yet. I took option A and my vet gave him his first dose of the Laxatone.
Back at home he went back into his abnormal behavior of not wanting to do anything but just lay in his bed. He has completely stopped vomiting but still continues to defecate that clear jelly substance...a lot. While I was cleaning his bed area I saw him do his business, I saw just a small bit of feces in the clear substance. It's now going on I want to say 28 hours since his first vomit. He still won't eat, he won't drink, he's very out of it and aside from the vomiting having stopped he hasn't improved anywhere else. Right now he's laying in his bed looking very sleepy and unwilling to do anything, occasionally he will purr when I go in to check on him.
I'm also afraid to give him anymore Laxatone, as it is he's not drinking water at least, if I gave him more won't it dehydrate him further? But at the same time if there is something in him it needs to come out already.
I'm thinking about taking him early in the morning to go get a 2nd opinion. I was also wondering what other foods I could try to feed him that might help him out a bit? Usually he eats dry food and I want to look for something that will be easier on his stomach.
My 6 month old kitten, Scout, hasn't been of good health over the last 24 hours. Yesterday night he threw up for the first time ever since we found him. At first I thought it was just his first hairball, cleaned it up and thought nothing of it. I started to notice a decline in his activities shortly after, he wasn't interested in playing and just wanted to lay down and not in his usual spots. He would lay down in the middle of the hall ways and when I went to bed he normally sleeps right beside me but this time wouldn't and instead chose a spot on the floor. It was then that I started thinking about how his food had looked untouched all day which I just related back to what I thought was a giant hairball earlier and deemed it as the reason he lost his appetite.
Early in the morning I woke up to find out he had urinated on the end of my bed!!! He has never gone outside of his litter box before. I found him back in the spot he chose before I fell asleep and thought immediately it was very odd. I got up to clean the mess and found a second throw up on my floor. This time I found an object in it. He had eaten one of those things that women use to tie their hair in a ponytail - it's kind of like a rubber band covered in cotton/fiber or something (one of these). It looked like he threw it up sometime during the night. While I was cleaning it I heard him meowing in another room, I went over to see him vomiting a 3rd time. I figured okay well he threw this thing up earlier so he should probably start feeling better soon. Nevertheless I kept him in the bathroom just encase he threw up more.
I went back to bed and as soon as I woke up I went to check on Scout. I found he threw up 5 more times throughout the day. Also looking into his litter box I found a few piles of what looked like clear diarrhea but after looking closer I realized it was more of like a clear mucous/jelly substance, it has no odor. I started really taking notice that he was behaving very lazily. Not covering his waste completely, not eating anything, not drinking, not interested in anything - all he wanted was to lay in his bed only making an effort to get up so he can get to the litter. At this point I decided it's time for the Vet.
I saved the thing he threw up in the 2nd vomit to show the vet when we got there. They seemed to only focus on that he had thrown up the object and that it was a good sign. But I kept stressing even though it was out he still continued to vomit another 5 times and the clear substance coming from his anus was really concerning me. Plus the behavior change and lack of wanting food or water. At home he seemed very out of it and sickly but at the vet he was much more alert so they never saw his actual behavior. At this point they gave me 2 options. Option A) Was to give him Laxatone to clear his system and wait it out. Option B) Was to give him an X-ray to look for any more foreign objects but at $200 I couldn't afford to do that just yet. I took option A and my vet gave him his first dose of the Laxatone.
Back at home he went back into his abnormal behavior of not wanting to do anything but just lay in his bed. He has completely stopped vomiting but still continues to defecate that clear jelly substance...a lot. While I was cleaning his bed area I saw him do his business, I saw just a small bit of feces in the clear substance. It's now going on I want to say 28 hours since his first vomit. He still won't eat, he won't drink, he's very out of it and aside from the vomiting having stopped he hasn't improved anywhere else. Right now he's laying in his bed looking very sleepy and unwilling to do anything, occasionally he will purr when I go in to check on him.
I'm also afraid to give him anymore Laxatone, as it is he's not drinking water at least, if I gave him more won't it dehydrate him further? But at the same time if there is something in him it needs to come out already.
I'm thinking about taking him early in the morning to go get a 2nd opinion. I was also wondering what other foods I could try to feed him that might help him out a bit? Usually he eats dry food and I want to look for something that will be easier on his stomach.