Just trying to see an opinion out there about Roscoe's diarrhea.
History: Roscoe has a hole in his heart and a mitral valve defect and is about 14 months old now. When we neutered him (back in January) the cardiologist put him on Cephalexin in case any bacteria landed on that mitral valve. The Cephalexin caused him to have diarrhea for a couple of weeks. I had a fecal done just to make sure things were ok and my vet recommended pumpkin to help him out.
Then....back at the end of July, my husband let him drink the rest of the milk from his cereal bowl (BAD idea). Poor Roscoe puked everything he'd eaten the whole day, it seemed. The milk was a bad idea and now hubby's not allowed to give him any!
He's had slightly loose stools ever since and has been vomiting once about every two weeks. The vomiting wasn't enough to worry me because it's not frequent and he eats right afterwards. I noticed when cleaning out the cat boxes last week (we have four cats and four boxes) that someone had some runny poop in there. I finally found the culprit. I followed Roscoe to the box this morning (I'm sure he thinks I'm nuts for watching him poop), and caught him in the act. It's definitely him with the runny poop.
We're going to the vet Monday morning to get him checked out, but I thought I would ask anyone else out there if it makes sense that loose stools could persist for 6 weeks just from having an overdose of milk? Hubby thinks I'm nuts, but I'm beginning to wonder if there's a correlation here.
He's eating ok and playing ok. I guess I just worry more about him because of his heart.
Thanks.
Kim
History: Roscoe has a hole in his heart and a mitral valve defect and is about 14 months old now. When we neutered him (back in January) the cardiologist put him on Cephalexin in case any bacteria landed on that mitral valve. The Cephalexin caused him to have diarrhea for a couple of weeks. I had a fecal done just to make sure things were ok and my vet recommended pumpkin to help him out.
Then....back at the end of July, my husband let him drink the rest of the milk from his cereal bowl (BAD idea). Poor Roscoe puked everything he'd eaten the whole day, it seemed. The milk was a bad idea and now hubby's not allowed to give him any!
He's had slightly loose stools ever since and has been vomiting once about every two weeks. The vomiting wasn't enough to worry me because it's not frequent and he eats right afterwards. I noticed when cleaning out the cat boxes last week (we have four cats and four boxes) that someone had some runny poop in there. I finally found the culprit. I followed Roscoe to the box this morning (I'm sure he thinks I'm nuts for watching him poop), and caught him in the act. It's definitely him with the runny poop.
We're going to the vet Monday morning to get him checked out, but I thought I would ask anyone else out there if it makes sense that loose stools could persist for 6 weeks just from having an overdose of milk? Hubby thinks I'm nuts, but I'm beginning to wonder if there's a correlation here.
He's eating ok and playing ok. I guess I just worry more about him because of his heart.
Thanks.
Kim