Eating Litter

[Sanabella]

My 7 month old is eating litter.
We adopted her at 3 months and she was immediately attached to me. We are a family of 5: Mom, Dad, my 22 year old son, 17 year old son and 14 year old daughter. We also have a 1 year old kitten. Two months of her being home, I became occupied packing for a major move. I have since moved out (we are in transition) while my family remains with the kittens. We have observed her go from being a happy-go-lucky kitten who eats well to one who's more withdrawn, reduced eating and is overall not as playful. Then the litter eating began. I am seriously worried about her. Most recently, she has developed a hind limb paralysis. We have had her looked at by our vet. All tests and X-rays are normal. Poor baby is immobile. I am still away while she is in the care of the rest of the family....who absolutely love her. Can anyone shed some light into this?

 

[Furballsmom]

Hi
I would suggest talking with a different vet, or asking your current one to consider consulting with a university medical veterinarian department.

 

[FeebysOwner]

Hi. What are all the tests that they ran? What about vaccinations? Sometimes nutritional deficiencies (not necessarily related to her food, but to her digestive system) can identify chemical/enzyme balances that standard blood tests will not test for. I am also thinking you might want to consider consulting with a specialty group and/or vet university that might be able to detect things that the standard vets just cannot do since they aren't exposed to as much overall.

Sorry, a bit of a repeat from above. We were posting at the same time!