Hi, I have a female British Shorthair kitten, around 3 months old. She has been with us about 1 month.
The first week after we brought her back, we noticed that there was blood in her stools, which were also a bit watery, and we took her to the vet. The vet gave us deworming medicine, diarrhea medicine and also some anti-biotics for the stomach to take for 1 week. The anti-biotics seemed to work, because the blood was gone after a few days. My husband took her back for review and the vet gave us some probiotics. After feeding her the probiotics and a few days before her next review, she started having blood in the stools again. The vet told us to stop the probiotics and to give her the same anti-biotics, which we are doing so now.
I would also like to highlight that when we brought her back, we made the mistake of changing the brand of kitten food she was on, which we suspect may have cause blood in her stools. Now, we are slowly trying to introduce back the previous brand of kitten food while on the anti-biotics. Her latest poop today still had some blood.
Besides the blood in her stools, she seems to be in good health, she eats regularly (although after mixing in the previous brand of kitten food, she doesn't seem to like it and will only eat that as last resort) and is active.
But we are still concerned because we still don't know the cause of the bloody stools and seems alarming as none of our friends with cats have experienced this before. We intend to seek a second opinion from another vet.
Would anybody be able to advise what can cause bloody stools? Is her diet the main problem? We are really quite worried about her condition.
The first week after we brought her back, we noticed that there was blood in her stools, which were also a bit watery, and we took her to the vet. The vet gave us deworming medicine, diarrhea medicine and also some anti-biotics for the stomach to take for 1 week. The anti-biotics seemed to work, because the blood was gone after a few days. My husband took her back for review and the vet gave us some probiotics. After feeding her the probiotics and a few days before her next review, she started having blood in the stools again. The vet told us to stop the probiotics and to give her the same anti-biotics, which we are doing so now.
I would also like to highlight that when we brought her back, we made the mistake of changing the brand of kitten food she was on, which we suspect may have cause blood in her stools. Now, we are slowly trying to introduce back the previous brand of kitten food while on the anti-biotics. Her latest poop today still had some blood.
Besides the blood in her stools, she seems to be in good health, she eats regularly (although after mixing in the previous brand of kitten food, she doesn't seem to like it and will only eat that as last resort) and is active.
But we are still concerned because we still don't know the cause of the bloody stools and seems alarming as none of our friends with cats have experienced this before. We intend to seek a second opinion from another vet.
Would anybody be able to advise what can cause bloody stools? Is her diet the main problem? We are really quite worried about her condition.