Ok so I know I can't get a diagnosis for a cat over the internet...But I more so need ideas, common stories, tests to ask for....etc........
Ok heres the senerio.....
John had three cats growing up...Yin...Yang..and Shuto.....Yin an yang were sister and brother from the same litter, and shuto was a show up on the porch stray......Yang ran away quite a few years ago
....But Yinny and shuto are still alive and live w/ Johns mom........
Ok theres the background here the story.......
Yinny a very intelligent indoor-outdoor calico, is 13 years old this year....She was always a heavy kitty...Not exactly obease but fat....Anyways up until 2 years ago she was healthy....(According to the vet at least...but i will rant about them later)
Well anyways 2 years ago Yinny lost 8 lbs in about 2 months...Yeah very bad...However the incompitant vet said that was fine.....never checked for fat on the liver or anything........I urged johns mom to bring Yinny to a different vet....But she had a friend their so she was getting deals on bills....And unfortunatly John and I were hardly able to survive never mind pay for a vet visit.........So life went on....and Yinny seemed to be happy and more active then she had ever been......Not knowing what had happened...But the vet said she was healthy so what were we to do.......
A year passes and nothing seemed to come of the mysterious weight loss......Then last year Trish (johns mom) moved...Yinny seemed to adjust very well to the move...she was acting like a kitten....the only difference was she refused to go outside anymore....But she would run around the house like mad, and play...etc....But a few month after moving in she developed chronic diahrreah....she went all over the house.....and the diarreah was foul smelling...Not that diarrea usually smells good...but this has a more fetid and unusual smell to it......And once in a while she would cry like she was in pain....And she stopped eating....and became obviously dehydrated.....
So trish brought Yinny back to the vet....The vet said that Yinny most likly had stomach cancer and to test her for it would be a waste of time...They put her on Prednizone so she would eat...and had trish feed her baby food to get calories back in her..............
So now another year has passed....And yinny still has chronic diarreah which she leaves all over the house....She is still on prednizone, and on a hills weight gain diet..........
The vets keep claiming she has cancer...and has not put her on flagyl or anything to help the diarreah.......because it would be a waste of time.......
So now John and I are in a better finacial position...So we are bringing Yinny to our vet...a feline only vet.......for a second opinion.......Are thoughts are is that we need to know if she is in pain....and if it really is cancer....because if it is, we feel it would be better to put her to sleep.......
But god help me if shes been suffering for 2 years because the vet didnt want to do anything...and was compltly incompetent.....errrrrrr
So what I would like from you guys are some ideas......
Do you think its cancer?....would she have lived this long if it was cancer??
Do you think her present condition has to do w/ the sudden weight loss???
What tests should I ask to be run???..Though I feel our vet is compitent enough to run the test needed....
And more so I just need someone to calm me down......Yinnys present vet has shown complete disregard, and neglect...and this poor girl who should be living out her later years, has been in pain because of it.....
....Well I am in this situation now And I am going to put this to and end one way or another........
So thank you all for listening...and thanx in advance for any ideas and comments on this situation
Ok heres the senerio.....
John had three cats growing up...Yin...Yang..and Shuto.....Yin an yang were sister and brother from the same litter, and shuto was a show up on the porch stray......Yang ran away quite a few years ago
Ok theres the background here the story.......
Yinny a very intelligent indoor-outdoor calico, is 13 years old this year....She was always a heavy kitty...Not exactly obease but fat....Anyways up until 2 years ago she was healthy....(According to the vet at least...but i will rant about them later)
Well anyways 2 years ago Yinny lost 8 lbs in about 2 months...Yeah very bad...However the incompitant vet said that was fine.....never checked for fat on the liver or anything........I urged johns mom to bring Yinny to a different vet....But she had a friend their so she was getting deals on bills....And unfortunatly John and I were hardly able to survive never mind pay for a vet visit.........So life went on....and Yinny seemed to be happy and more active then she had ever been......Not knowing what had happened...But the vet said she was healthy so what were we to do.......
A year passes and nothing seemed to come of the mysterious weight loss......Then last year Trish (johns mom) moved...Yinny seemed to adjust very well to the move...she was acting like a kitten....the only difference was she refused to go outside anymore....But she would run around the house like mad, and play...etc....But a few month after moving in she developed chronic diahrreah....she went all over the house.....and the diarreah was foul smelling...Not that diarrea usually smells good...but this has a more fetid and unusual smell to it......And once in a while she would cry like she was in pain....And she stopped eating....and became obviously dehydrated.....
So trish brought Yinny back to the vet....The vet said that Yinny most likly had stomach cancer and to test her for it would be a waste of time...They put her on Prednizone so she would eat...and had trish feed her baby food to get calories back in her..............
So now another year has passed....And yinny still has chronic diarreah which she leaves all over the house....She is still on prednizone, and on a hills weight gain diet..........
The vets keep claiming she has cancer...and has not put her on flagyl or anything to help the diarreah.......because it would be a waste of time.......
So now John and I are in a better finacial position...So we are bringing Yinny to our vet...a feline only vet.......for a second opinion.......Are thoughts are is that we need to know if she is in pain....and if it really is cancer....because if it is, we feel it would be better to put her to sleep.......
But god help me if shes been suffering for 2 years because the vet didnt want to do anything...and was compltly incompetent.....errrrrrr
So what I would like from you guys are some ideas......
Do you think its cancer?....would she have lived this long if it was cancer??
Do you think her present condition has to do w/ the sudden weight loss???
What tests should I ask to be run???..Though I feel our vet is compitent enough to run the test needed....
And more so I just need someone to calm me down......Yinnys present vet has shown complete disregard, and neglect...and this poor girl who should be living out her later years, has been in pain because of it.....
So thank you all for listening...and thanx in advance for any ideas and comments on this situation