We've been keeping a close eye on all the cats going to the bathroom because of Tuxedo's URI problems.
Exactly one week ago, Shelly had really stinky diarrhea with blood in it. Gary rushed it over to the Vets. The Vet that was still there that evening said that they don't worry too much about blood in cat's stools if there isn't much of it, and he said there wasn't much blood in the stool. It looked like a fair amount to us.
Gary, of course, was very disturbed by the whole thing. It was later explained by a different Vet there (when we called to see what the test results were) that the reason for this is because unlike in people, blood in their stool is not necessarily an indication of internal bleeding.
Anyway, all the tests came back negative. No parasites, no Giardia.
Shelly had normal stools after that, and no diarrhea. But because we were worried, we've been keeping a look out. This morning, there was blood in his stool again - but it wasn't diarrhea. Now, maybe there's been blood all week, and we just didn't see it. There were a few days when we weren't awake when he had a bowel movement, so there was no way to know who's was who's... but through the kitty litter, we didn't see blood - but that doesn't mean it wasn't there.
What do we do now? We're really scared it's been there all week now.
Should we take him for an X-ray or something? Is there something in there bothering his colon? Should we consider getting new Vets? Ours have done so much for us, but this is really bugging us.
Any thoughts or advice?
Exactly one week ago, Shelly had really stinky diarrhea with blood in it. Gary rushed it over to the Vets. The Vet that was still there that evening said that they don't worry too much about blood in cat's stools if there isn't much of it, and he said there wasn't much blood in the stool. It looked like a fair amount to us.
Gary, of course, was very disturbed by the whole thing. It was later explained by a different Vet there (when we called to see what the test results were) that the reason for this is because unlike in people, blood in their stool is not necessarily an indication of internal bleeding.
Anyway, all the tests came back negative. No parasites, no Giardia.
Shelly had normal stools after that, and no diarrhea. But because we were worried, we've been keeping a look out. This morning, there was blood in his stool again - but it wasn't diarrhea. Now, maybe there's been blood all week, and we just didn't see it. There were a few days when we weren't awake when he had a bowel movement, so there was no way to know who's was who's... but through the kitty litter, we didn't see blood - but that doesn't mean it wasn't there.
What do we do now? We're really scared it's been there all week now.
Should we take him for an X-ray or something? Is there something in there bothering his colon? Should we consider getting new Vets? Ours have done so much for us, but this is really bugging us.
Any thoughts or advice?