Hello everyone
I adopted 2 kitties from a no kill shelter almost 3 months ago and the little one has had nothing but problems from the start. Within 2 hours of getting her home, she went potty and had loose stool with fresh red blood. I called the shelter immediately and she said it could be stress and to just monitor her. They did send me home with a bag of purina dry food which I believe might have been the issue. After 2 weeks of soft poops ( blood was only 1x ) I took both in for a full exam and work up. We checked poops and the results were clear, no parasites. Blood work was all good for both. THe vet said she had an ear infection and treated for that and also gave her a convenia injection. Re check 2 weeks later showed she still had ear infection so we switched to tresaderm drops 2x per day for 10 days. I also switched both to a completely raw diet, RAD cat was my choice of food. Poops seemed to resolve and went to formed and the correct brown color. I thought I was out of the woods until she had another incident of soft poop with fresh blood and mucus. The vet put her on a de wormer for 5 days, panacur and also flagyl 2x per day for 14 days. I was giving her the flagyl in pill pockets.
There are multiple issues so please stay with me. She was also NOT spayed, she was supposed to be but wasn't, long story so we had her spayed 1 month ago today. When I adopted her she was a kitty who cleaned ALOT. I asked the vet if this was considered excessive and she said no, because she wasn't causing bald spots, it was nothing of concern. We had the spaying done and immediately she wanted to lick the area. I put a doggie t shirt on her and would literally follow her around for 10 days and slept on the floor with her in my office. When the stitches came out 10 days later, there was some stabbing so they said leave her shirt on for a couple days and then it should be healed up okay. I removed her shirt and she started cleaning and made scabs all over her tummy from where the stitches were. I put her shirt back on and hoped it would heal but it was still looking bad so last Friday, back to the vet. They gave her an antibiotic injection again, convenia, and an anti itch injection that was going to last 2 days, I"m assuming it was a steroid of some sort. We kept her shirt back on. Stupid me, I thought the scabs looked loose so I picked some off, bad idea so that just set us back again. She has been trying to lick her tummy and ends up just licking the t shirt. Yesterday I discovered that she is now licking her left thigh and on the inside and outside she has about 8 total scabs. Ugh....
I am a member of another group and they said that rad cat might not be the best because it contains egg and that some cats are allergic to egg. True?
I am also looking at the instinct brand raw bites in the rabbit formula, that does not have egg in it, I wonder if I should switch her food? I have checked all over and she does not have fleas on her. The other cat does not scratch at all so if we had a flea issue I'd assume the other cat would be itching as well right?
I don't know what to do....
I can say when she had her spay surgery, 2 days later she got this huge sausage looking thing under the incision, it looked like a piece of human stool. I called the vet and they said it was a reaction to the internal stitches. It's since gone down flat but I wonder if she's having some allergic reaction still internally to the internal stitches? I don't know if it's the rad cat food, I do feed the raw chicken flavor, which I just learned that chicken is a trigger so once I"m done with this container, I will only feed her the lamb, or the turkey but both still have the egg in them.
I am at a loss. Also, when I was giving her the flagyl 2x per day for the last 14 days I was using pill pockets and just realized that those have wheat in them...maybe that caused something and that's why she's licking like mad making these scabs on her legs? She never had any scabs prior to her spay surgery, yes, she cleaned a ton but never made scabs.
Hope someone here has some insight for me...
Thanks!
I adopted 2 kitties from a no kill shelter almost 3 months ago and the little one has had nothing but problems from the start. Within 2 hours of getting her home, she went potty and had loose stool with fresh red blood. I called the shelter immediately and she said it could be stress and to just monitor her. They did send me home with a bag of purina dry food which I believe might have been the issue. After 2 weeks of soft poops ( blood was only 1x ) I took both in for a full exam and work up. We checked poops and the results were clear, no parasites. Blood work was all good for both. THe vet said she had an ear infection and treated for that and also gave her a convenia injection. Re check 2 weeks later showed she still had ear infection so we switched to tresaderm drops 2x per day for 10 days. I also switched both to a completely raw diet, RAD cat was my choice of food. Poops seemed to resolve and went to formed and the correct brown color. I thought I was out of the woods until she had another incident of soft poop with fresh blood and mucus. The vet put her on a de wormer for 5 days, panacur and also flagyl 2x per day for 14 days. I was giving her the flagyl in pill pockets.
There are multiple issues so please stay with me. She was also NOT spayed, she was supposed to be but wasn't, long story so we had her spayed 1 month ago today. When I adopted her she was a kitty who cleaned ALOT. I asked the vet if this was considered excessive and she said no, because she wasn't causing bald spots, it was nothing of concern. We had the spaying done and immediately she wanted to lick the area. I put a doggie t shirt on her and would literally follow her around for 10 days and slept on the floor with her in my office. When the stitches came out 10 days later, there was some stabbing so they said leave her shirt on for a couple days and then it should be healed up okay. I removed her shirt and she started cleaning and made scabs all over her tummy from where the stitches were. I put her shirt back on and hoped it would heal but it was still looking bad so last Friday, back to the vet. They gave her an antibiotic injection again, convenia, and an anti itch injection that was going to last 2 days, I"m assuming it was a steroid of some sort. We kept her shirt back on. Stupid me, I thought the scabs looked loose so I picked some off, bad idea so that just set us back again. She has been trying to lick her tummy and ends up just licking the t shirt. Yesterday I discovered that she is now licking her left thigh and on the inside and outside she has about 8 total scabs. Ugh....
I am a member of another group and they said that rad cat might not be the best because it contains egg and that some cats are allergic to egg. True?
I am also looking at the instinct brand raw bites in the rabbit formula, that does not have egg in it, I wonder if I should switch her food? I have checked all over and she does not have fleas on her. The other cat does not scratch at all so if we had a flea issue I'd assume the other cat would be itching as well right?
I don't know what to do....
I can say when she had her spay surgery, 2 days later she got this huge sausage looking thing under the incision, it looked like a piece of human stool. I called the vet and they said it was a reaction to the internal stitches. It's since gone down flat but I wonder if she's having some allergic reaction still internally to the internal stitches? I don't know if it's the rad cat food, I do feed the raw chicken flavor, which I just learned that chicken is a trigger so once I"m done with this container, I will only feed her the lamb, or the turkey but both still have the egg in them.
I am at a loss. Also, when I was giving her the flagyl 2x per day for the last 14 days I was using pill pockets and just realized that those have wheat in them...maybe that caused something and that's why she's licking like mad making these scabs on her legs? She never had any scabs prior to her spay surgery, yes, she cleaned a ton but never made scabs.
Hope someone here has some insight for me...
Thanks!