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Hello knowledgeable cat friends
I picked up a new foster a couple days ago and I’m looking for some ideas to help support this little dudes recovery from (suspected) panleukopenia.
There were two litters of similar age dropped off from the same home- My foster and 2 other kittens were dropped off in bad shape- the littlest died that night, the biggest made a quick recovery, and my little guy (Cassick) has been hospitalized twice over the last few weeks and is a work-in-progress. Initially it was for classic Panleuk treatment and the second because he got severely constipated with pasty green poop. When I got him, Cassick was starting to see some improvement but he’s a bone rack; they think the litters are~5 months old (and the healthy kittens look like it) but Cassick is the size of a 3 month old and only 1.3 kg.
He’s currently being fed 4x a day in small portions of 50/50 Hills diet of A/D and Biome gastrointestinal (total is roughly 2 small cans a day- a big amount for such a little guy!). He’s pretty bright, chatty, and super affectionate but his energy to play is limited and he lives on his heating pad when I’m not there to snuggle with. Overall, he’s doing ok but his stool is still really loose- not ‘dirty bum explosion’ level but ‘stinky mud pie.’ He’s so thin, I worry about him loosing any extra calories due to diarrhea.
Any ideas to help him firm up without risking plugging him up again? I need to fatten this poor guy up!
(Will try to get pic for tax but I don’t want to put my phone through quarantine protocols lol)
Thanks all!
I picked up a new foster a couple days ago and I’m looking for some ideas to help support this little dudes recovery from (suspected) panleukopenia.
There were two litters of similar age dropped off from the same home- My foster and 2 other kittens were dropped off in bad shape- the littlest died that night, the biggest made a quick recovery, and my little guy (Cassick) has been hospitalized twice over the last few weeks and is a work-in-progress. Initially it was for classic Panleuk treatment and the second because he got severely constipated with pasty green poop. When I got him, Cassick was starting to see some improvement but he’s a bone rack; they think the litters are~5 months old (and the healthy kittens look like it) but Cassick is the size of a 3 month old and only 1.3 kg.
He’s currently being fed 4x a day in small portions of 50/50 Hills diet of A/D and Biome gastrointestinal (total is roughly 2 small cans a day- a big amount for such a little guy!). He’s pretty bright, chatty, and super affectionate but his energy to play is limited and he lives on his heating pad when I’m not there to snuggle with. Overall, he’s doing ok but his stool is still really loose- not ‘dirty bum explosion’ level but ‘stinky mud pie.’ He’s so thin, I worry about him loosing any extra calories due to diarrhea.
Any ideas to help him firm up without risking plugging him up again? I need to fatten this poor guy up!
(Will try to get pic for tax but I don’t want to put my phone through quarantine protocols lol)
Thanks all!