Tuffy is bleeding!!

If it was me I'd find another vet real quick!
This has been going on for too long. Please call around tomorrow and get him into a vet that will check him out asap.
Sending good vibes to you and Tuffy.

Tom,Let me tell you a story about one of my cats.

I have a male cat named Yellow. He was passing blood as well. It was large red fresh streak in his poop and I was convinced he had a tumor or something. I read online about the bad stuff that it could be and when I took him to the vet I was convinced my cat would have to be put down because I could not afford chemo on a cat. I want to stress this was in every poop and it was a lot of blood in my opinion. Half a teaspoon each time. Or so it looked.

His eyes were running and swollen some as well. He looked horrible and there is a thread about this somewhere on this site. I went to the vet bawling convinced my Yellow was gone. I walked in puffy eyes and was as red and swollen as Yellow. We made quite a pair.

As it turned out, allergies and hay fever in a cat, can cause blood to come from their bobo's........ seriously.

So my vet gave him a shot of steroid and some steroid/antibiotic eye drops and everything cleared up. It was all allergy related.

It could be something just this simple. Needless to say, I left the vet in a much different frame of mind. I watched his poop and the blood was gone within 24 hrs and has not returned. I don't remember the time frame of this but it seems it was sometime in March or April.

Now at first, my vet did not know if it was allergy related. What he told me was that IF IT WAS allergies, the blood would go away with the steroids he gave him. And it did go away and has never come back. Vet also said if it didn't stop to bring him in for more testing.

But the steriod shot fixed him up and he is fine now. They gave it in his neck. I have several cats and at first I wasn't sure who was bleeding. I found it in the bathroom floor as well, but I starting bird-dogging the litter box to watch.

So it could be allergies. This is ragweed season.

Good luck and get him to the vet and try not to worry.

Jenn

Best wishes to you and Tuffy! Keep us posted!

Oh my, I hope Tuffy will get better soon! Please, let us know what the vet said! I would also looked up another vet and get a second opinion right away, if this one will not do anything about this bleeding. Maybe with me beeing pregnant I am overreacting, but if I would see blood on mine- i would freak out and would take him to the vet, no matter what he told me too. better safe then sorry!
Sending all my prayers your way, wishing Tuffy all the best!

Any news yet how is Tuffy this morning...

My Loki had that too - turned out to be food allergies - switched him to Natural Balance Venicen (sp?) and green Pee - no more problems.

He goes in at 2:50 today. I wonder if it is food related too. Because it seemed to start after I started to feed Missy soft food because of her teeth. Tuffy also eats allot of the cheap soft wal mart food, [I get this because Missy really likes the stuff] and I can't get him to leave Missy's food alone. Otherwise they all eat the Nutro indoor stuff. It is so hard to get Missy alone in one room to just feed her, they all know when I am going to feed Missy so they all come running.

Let us know how it goes... GL Tuffy

I just got back home with him, we live only about 4 blocks away from the vet. She checked him for worms and checked to make sure nothing is in there that isn't meant to be and didn't find anything wrong. She wonders if he is having trouble passing hair balls or maybe he gets stressed out when I am gone camping and not drinking like he should, I know he don't like it when I am not here.

She sent home some stuff called Sucralfate with me to give him, they say he was on it before but I don't remember the stuff, I don't know what it is for? I have to look it up and see.

She is pretty sure the blood is coming from his rear end and not someplace farther inside. She also said to get a good cat food for hair balls to maybe help him pass them. I don't know if Nutro has such stuff or if I will have to get a different brand, she said Wal-Mart has different kinds but I said I don't really want to go back to that cheap stuff if I can help it.

So I guess just see how he does and she said if I can to try and watch him in the litter box and see if it hurts him or if he has problems. So at least no bad news but still not sure whats going on with him.

I would have wanted a full blood panel and ex-rays for Tuffy.

Poor Tuffy... I hope he gets better.

I am not totaly convinced the vet is on the right track with this either. She has been so good with him since I first got him home and she is always the one who sees him when he goes in so she knows Tuffy as well as I do.

He has had blood work and x rays in the past since I have had him but we were looking at a different problem so I don't know if they would have seen anything not right back then or not. He had worms or some kind of parasites back then and his blood work showed he was enemic [sp?] so he was treated for the worms and I had to give him vitamins to help build up his blood, and after a while they tested his blood again and he was concidered normal. That was about 3 or 4 months ago though.

She didn't ask me to but if he bleeds again I will try and save some of it so I can show the vet, I don't know if she can tell anything from it though. Like I said above I want to catch him in the litter box and just watch and see if he has problems. Can cats have a condition like hemeroids [sp?] in people that can make them bleed? If he did I would think she would be able to tell if that is the case. He seems fine other wise but I am affraid I am going to find him in a big pool of blood half dead some day.

I have had cats most of my life since I moved out from home and I never had one before that bled from his rear end, but then I never took care of a cat that was so sick when I got him home.

I have learned so much from helping Tuffy and this web sight about Kitty Cats that I must have just been vey lucky with most of the other cats I have had that they never had any bad problems, except for Peanut that is, but that is another long sad story I told on here before.

He is so used to going to the vet all I need to do is get out the carrier and say "want to go for a ride" to Tuffy and he perks up and most times goes into the carrier himself and sits there nice and calm on the ride and he just wants to explore when he gets to the vets office. It could be full of big dogs there and he don't even care, so if he is stressed out he hides it real well.

I am close to all our pets, but I never felt so close to one as I do with Tuffy, maybe its because I saved his life and never gave up on helping him and he never gave up on wanting to live, and how close he is to me and how he trusts me. He is on my lap as I right this about him telling me I have been on here long enough and to pet him.

Sorry to get so long again.

Sucralfate is also known as carafate, it is used to coat the lining of the throat and stomach. With crf kitties it is given as they can develop ulcers in their mouth/throat and this helps protect.

If you do a search on carafate at the www.felinecrf.org site, it will bring up some information for you as to what it does.

I hope you get an answer, I know that not knowing is the worst.

SO the vet thinks he might have a ulcer... Hmmmm

I hope that everything can be taken care of and it's not incredibly dangerous. Even when you doubt your vet, it is best to thoroughly consider what is being said, but, also remember you know your cat. Good luck with Tuffy!

I don't remember her saying ulcer, so when I looked up the med I found out it is a ulcer med I was a little confused. They say he was on it before but I don't remember having to give it to him.

Could it be they gave him a shot of the stuff at the office? Maybe they meant to have me give him the stuff before but they forgot to give me the med? But they are real good to make sure I get the stuff that he needs and how to give it to him. I am to crush up part of a pill and mix it with water for him, If I had to do all this before I would have remembered. I can't get pills into him, so maybe that is why she said to crush it and mix water to it in a small seringe.

The vet tech can get pills in him no problem with a pill gun or whatever they call those things but I can't even with the same tool. I am to affraid I am going to hurt him by sticking it in his throat to far and I am to slow on getting the pill in there before he can move and spit it out. The vet said that the tech is real good with that pill tool, she said sometimes she has to have the tech pill the tough ones because she can't do it either.

Tom W, I am so glad you got some news for us and they are not too bad! I would consider a blood test and x-rays anyways- just to be on a safe side. My vet keeps telling me that my kitty's gums look a little bit pale, and that COULD be just the way they are, but i also could be cause his immune system is killing his blood cells- so just to be on a safe side- we do blood tests. So far everything is good, but test gives me peace in mind!
I guess just watch him and see if he'll improove!
And I got to tell you- I am the same way with pills- I feel so bad that I'll hurt him, I can not get that pill inside of him. Some folks here gave me GREAT TIPS, on how to pill him- and it really works. The thing worked for me- is I gave my kittly his favorite tuna, just a little bite, to get him excited.... then, few minutes later- again, and I put it on a table, so he could see it and smell it... then I wrapped him in a towel and got pill pooper, I covered the whole pill in butter and sticked it in a piller ( it is a pain, but do-able! ) As soon as I got pill inside of him and before he spit it out, I put a little piece of tuna in his mouth- and he ate it... and I hugged him and gave him kisses... and- vuala!!!!
Sending vibes your way and hope Tuffy will feel so much better soon!

How is Tuffy tonight Tom

He is doing fine tonight, even when he is bleeding he doesn't seem to even notice right away. Then when he stops bleeding he grooms himself clean and any blood he left on the bed or floor or where ever he will go back and lick the spots till it is clean. So he may be bleeding more than I know about if I don't happen to see him when he is bleeding he gets rid of the evidence so well I would never know it.

I wish I could catch him in the litter box to really see whats going on. The other day he was in it but he was peeing and he didn't have any problems doing that. I have looked close at his rear when he was bleeding and it was for sure coming from his little butt. I should have asked if a blood test to see if he is anemic [sp] again like before would be a good idea.

I just have to watch him close I guess to see what happens. I may be wrong but I still don't think passing a hair ball or a hard poop would make him bleed that much.