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I feel like I'm constantly having problems with cats, ever since we adopted our shelter-rescue, Domino. Our other cat, Tazo, was about a month older than Domino, and she was a stray kitten that followed us home. She never had any problems. Domino seemed fine, but shortly after having him home from the vet (the shelter mandated he be neutered prior to becoming adopted, at the young age of 3 1/2 months.) he had worms, ringworm, and I believe feline herpes. Tazo got sick and infected with ringworm, which was an 11 month battle. The entire time, however, Domino has had issues withe the litter box. He was fine until he was 8 months old. He started pooping and urinating everywhere. We've dewormed him, and it hasn't changed the behavior. He became an outdoor/indoor cat and that solved the problem, until winter. We kept him indoors and he urinated next to the litterbox the entire time until we moved the boxes to another room. Then he decided the middle of the room was a great place to urinated and defecate. Letting him be outside and inside by spring didn't help anymore. When he'd come inside for food, he would only be in for a half hour to an hour before leaving a mess. Now we've moved and he's been inside for the most part. He continued his habits. He began to lose a LOT of weight. Ate a lot. But he became skin and bone. I took him and Tazo, who seemed perfectly fine, and put them in another room so I could treat both for worms. He continues to urinate and defecate anywhere but the boxes.
He's been slowly, SLOWLY gaining weight, but he's still skin and bone. He lost a lot of hair, too. There's a bald patch between his shoulder blades and his hind legs. We thought he was having a flea allergy, and so we took him and Tazo to the vet. They said he was fine, but just in case, gave both of them a steroid shot. And I've noticed nothing different since then.
And over the weeks, Tazo has lost some weight, despite her aggressive craze over food that seems to never end. She's clumsy and knocks things over all the time now. She is looking gaunt between her hips and ribs, despite seeming to weigh a healthy amount. With the amount of food I've been feeding both cats, with their low activity level and being fixed, they should be overweight.
I've done all kinds of google searches with absolutely no conclusive results. Do I try deworming again? Searches on the web tell me that the roundworm medicine I've bought from the store is ineffective, and so they may still have roundworm and we just don't know it.
A vet visit seems obvious, but this month and probably next we are going to be very tight. It won't be until November that we can even consider taking them in. Not that we're too poor to have animals, it's just we got hit by a surprise financial burden that's shaken things up a bit.
He's been slowly, SLOWLY gaining weight, but he's still skin and bone. He lost a lot of hair, too. There's a bald patch between his shoulder blades and his hind legs. We thought he was having a flea allergy, and so we took him and Tazo to the vet. They said he was fine, but just in case, gave both of them a steroid shot. And I've noticed nothing different since then.
And over the weeks, Tazo has lost some weight, despite her aggressive craze over food that seems to never end. She's clumsy and knocks things over all the time now. She is looking gaunt between her hips and ribs, despite seeming to weigh a healthy amount. With the amount of food I've been feeding both cats, with their low activity level and being fixed, they should be overweight.
I've done all kinds of google searches with absolutely no conclusive results. Do I try deworming again? Searches on the web tell me that the roundworm medicine I've bought from the store is ineffective, and so they may still have roundworm and we just don't know it.
A vet visit seems obvious, but this month and probably next we are going to be very tight. It won't be until November that we can even consider taking them in. Not that we're too poor to have animals, it's just we got hit by a surprise financial burden that's shaken things up a bit.