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My 1year old cat has a problem:
3 weeks ago- he had a blocked back exit as he is a long haired persian. I freed this area by cutting the hair away and the compact feaces, and loose feaces immediately fell out.
I called the vet as I noticed his back entrance seemed to be really open, they said to bring him in , in the morning. They put him under and discovered he had no anal tone whatsoever, however after a few days- he came home and we had noticed, despite having no anal tone, he had control and was able to pass feaces in his tray with no problem at all. He also has full control of urination (which is done in the tray also). The vet came to the conclusion that his hair had become tangled in with feaces and blocked him from going to the toilet for at least 24 hours - max 48 hours and that feaces must have been sitting in the passage which stretched it and there was about a 4mm band of necrosis inside where the anus should be and tone.
However, the second week came along, and I kept cleaning him with saline solution (by using a syringe and spraying it up the passage) and the tone has fully returned! But in the second week is when the problems started. He started straining (despite in the first week of passing feaces no problem even with a relaxed tone), he started straining all over the house, outwith the tray and little bits of soft feaces would follow, he started bringing food up as well. (I forgot to mention , he has been bright natured throughout this all and eating well). I took him to the vets that day and they brought him in as thought it was sickness and diahhrea. They gave us Fibre Response Royal Canin biscuits and peridale. I was told not to spray the syringe up his passage now as it could cause a rupture (as the purpose of spraying the saline solution was to keep the cavity of no anal tone clean- but it has now returned).
My faux pas, as I had just changed his food straight to fibre response, peridale and sometimes chicken and brown rice (encore cat food packets). He then had diarrhoea again and was straining this all over the house. I am also administering sudocream on the area to help with straining. I then took him to the vet again- who gave him an anti-sickness injection and put him back on metacam (2.5ml) for pain relief and anti-inflammatory, when he came home - he had a full day and night sleep and ate in between and woke up bright an early. The high volume of straining stopped and he was only straining in the tray. I put him back on his usual diet (to harden up the feaces) - and on xmas evening he did a long bathroom- of hard feaces to a long line of soft feaces. I kept feeding him his normal diet, cleaning his back area (of small soft leakages) and putting sudocream on… but last night (when i expected he would go) - he was pacing and straining and I could hear gargling of diarrhoea trying to push out , which unsettled him..I put a hot water bottle out for him and he settle down for the night..
I woke up this morning and he was sick a little… then got up and ate lots of food and I gave him his daily dose of metacam .. he then had a strain again and I took him into the vets today… they saying that if he doesn't pass , he may have to be sedated to clear his colon… and that things don't look too good as they will have a look to see - but can only look so far, and it sounds like the nerves in part of his colon have become unresponsive or may be a rupture.. and we may need to try different types of 'sloppy diets' at home, to get the right balance to have him pass all the way through until it may heal?
I've noticed
- since stopped the spraying of saline- he has had trouble passing
-that he could pass when there was no tone, and now that it returned- he having difficulty
-that percale may have caused more straining and small feaces to come out all over the house (but on other hand he may have been straining because of diarrhoea hurt his insides)
-that he is even having difficulty passing soft feaces..
sorry for the essay.. but I'm just looking for people with ideas/ who have been through this/ other vets advice? As i've been told , this could be terminal (due to quality of life).
I work from home, so my 24hours are no problem devoted to him , and I just want him to be happy.
3 weeks ago- he had a blocked back exit as he is a long haired persian. I freed this area by cutting the hair away and the compact feaces, and loose feaces immediately fell out.
I called the vet as I noticed his back entrance seemed to be really open, they said to bring him in , in the morning. They put him under and discovered he had no anal tone whatsoever, however after a few days- he came home and we had noticed, despite having no anal tone, he had control and was able to pass feaces in his tray with no problem at all. He also has full control of urination (which is done in the tray also). The vet came to the conclusion that his hair had become tangled in with feaces and blocked him from going to the toilet for at least 24 hours - max 48 hours and that feaces must have been sitting in the passage which stretched it and there was about a 4mm band of necrosis inside where the anus should be and tone.
However, the second week came along, and I kept cleaning him with saline solution (by using a syringe and spraying it up the passage) and the tone has fully returned! But in the second week is when the problems started. He started straining (despite in the first week of passing feaces no problem even with a relaxed tone), he started straining all over the house, outwith the tray and little bits of soft feaces would follow, he started bringing food up as well. (I forgot to mention , he has been bright natured throughout this all and eating well). I took him to the vets that day and they brought him in as thought it was sickness and diahhrea. They gave us Fibre Response Royal Canin biscuits and peridale. I was told not to spray the syringe up his passage now as it could cause a rupture (as the purpose of spraying the saline solution was to keep the cavity of no anal tone clean- but it has now returned).
My faux pas, as I had just changed his food straight to fibre response, peridale and sometimes chicken and brown rice (encore cat food packets). He then had diarrhoea again and was straining this all over the house. I am also administering sudocream on the area to help with straining. I then took him to the vet again- who gave him an anti-sickness injection and put him back on metacam (2.5ml) for pain relief and anti-inflammatory, when he came home - he had a full day and night sleep and ate in between and woke up bright an early. The high volume of straining stopped and he was only straining in the tray. I put him back on his usual diet (to harden up the feaces) - and on xmas evening he did a long bathroom- of hard feaces to a long line of soft feaces. I kept feeding him his normal diet, cleaning his back area (of small soft leakages) and putting sudocream on… but last night (when i expected he would go) - he was pacing and straining and I could hear gargling of diarrhoea trying to push out , which unsettled him..I put a hot water bottle out for him and he settle down for the night..
I woke up this morning and he was sick a little… then got up and ate lots of food and I gave him his daily dose of metacam .. he then had a strain again and I took him into the vets today… they saying that if he doesn't pass , he may have to be sedated to clear his colon… and that things don't look too good as they will have a look to see - but can only look so far, and it sounds like the nerves in part of his colon have become unresponsive or may be a rupture.. and we may need to try different types of 'sloppy diets' at home, to get the right balance to have him pass all the way through until it may heal?
I've noticed
- since stopped the spraying of saline- he has had trouble passing
-that he could pass when there was no tone, and now that it returned- he having difficulty
-that percale may have caused more straining and small feaces to come out all over the house (but on other hand he may have been straining because of diarrhoea hurt his insides)
-that he is even having difficulty passing soft feaces..
sorry for the essay.. but I'm just looking for people with ideas/ who have been through this/ other vets advice? As i've been told , this could be terminal (due to quality of life).
I work from home, so my 24hours are no problem devoted to him , and I just want him to be happy.