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Hi everyone, I’m back again needing more cat diarrhea advice, this time for our 4 (maybe 5 at this point) month old kitten. I’ll try to make this short. We got her at the beginning of this month, and a day or two after having her home her poops started to become runny. Apparently the day before we adopted her she was spayed, not sure if this is significant (maybe caught something during the spay? or recovery?). She was eating purina kitten chow at her foster home, and we kept her on that. After a week of runny poops we go to the vet, they do a fecal float, no worms, but deworm her again anyway because it’s part of their protocol. I pressed a little about a solution to the diarrhea but they didn’t seem concerned, they said to give it some time, maybe it’s stress. Poops are still runny, so we start to slowly transition her to Leo’s food (LID rabbit kibble) since she’s trying to eat it all the time anyway, and poops stay exactly the same. It’s been about 3 weeks and her poops are still quite runny, like if I try to scoop after it just sleeps through all the cracks on the scooper. Sometimes they are more like a pudding like blob, but nothing resembling a log or anything even remotely normal. We have kept her on Leo’s food since the transition because I am trying to avoid changing the food too often. She also just won’t eat enough wet to get near enough calories, I’ve been trying the boiled chicken thing with her and she just isn’t interested.
My main questions, outside of general advice, is what to expect for and ask for at the vet. I feel like last time I went they didn’t really do anything, but I also didn’t argue, so this time I want to make sure I advocate for her better. I know that there are fecal floats, fecal analysis, and a fecal pcr panel. I was planning on asking for the pcr panel, but I worry they may think I’m asking for something unnescessary. Really, I just don’t want a situation where we’re sent home with antibiotics treating something that may not even be there. I also don’t want to get sold some vet diet or have them accuse the food she’s on for the diarrhea. Maybe it is the food, but I’d like to start ruling out other things too. She’s otherwise healthy and playful and gaining weight, so I don’t see the harm in waiting on diagnostics. What do you all think?
My main questions, outside of general advice, is what to expect for and ask for at the vet. I feel like last time I went they didn’t really do anything, but I also didn’t argue, so this time I want to make sure I advocate for her better. I know that there are fecal floats, fecal analysis, and a fecal pcr panel. I was planning on asking for the pcr panel, but I worry they may think I’m asking for something unnescessary. Really, I just don’t want a situation where we’re sent home with antibiotics treating something that may not even be there. I also don’t want to get sold some vet diet or have them accuse the food she’s on for the diarrhea. Maybe it is the food, but I’d like to start ruling out other things too. She’s otherwise healthy and playful and gaining weight, so I don’t see the harm in waiting on diagnostics. What do you all think?