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This is my about 4 year old domestic short haired tortoiseshell cat. She is cleverly named…Tortie. She was rescued by my boyfriend from the SPCA after being in a cage for a whole year ! We call her hound (she acts like a dog) I have had the privilege to have this cat in my life for a while now and as of the past couple of months I'm in distress. For my poor girl is sick
It first happened a few months back when she suddenly started going outside the litter box. Just pooping though. At first, we thought there was something wrong with the litter. or the placement of the box. Or she was being bullied out of the boxes. (we also have a same age male cat) she would go right out side of the box (we caught her on camera) so we tried everything between changing the litter, buying another box and moving the box away from the others. Nothing seemed to work.
One day she was acting funny. My boyfriend made a noise and she ran and hid under the bed. Now, loud noises happen all the time in the house and the cats are never fazed. Also she had never his under the bed before the entire time we have had her. We tried to coax her out and after 20 minutes we eventually pulled her out. Also, she went from eating her food without a issue to us having to watch her and move the bowl to get her to eat (the other cat has a eating problem so we have to watch and feed them separately) also she has been more vocal. Crying for no reason and sometimes unable to even have a audible meow. And this is just varies from day to day. Some days she's our normal baby girl. Other days she is funky
After that incident of her hiding under the bed we decided to take her to the vet for we actually caught her eating a dryer sheet :/. At the vet he checked her for blockage and found none and put her on some broad antibiotics for a week and a bland food diet. The vet thought maybe her food has been making her sick. Boy did she love eating with her medicine! We didn't have to do anything for her to finish. She would even lick her bowl clean! Everything seemed to be great and we didn't find as much poop outside of the box. Other than 1-2 incidents but a week after the medicine she started going everywhere. Even one time in front of us. And the smell made everyone sick it was way worse than normal cat poop smell. And it wasn't fully solid it was moist but not liquid.
So we took her back to the vet. There they did a radiograph of her stomach and drew blood and gave us a tube for a stool sample. Which we turned in within a couple of days. All test came back negative. Which meant no parasite, bacteria, virus or blockage. All thought that sounds good news it also isn't. The doctor would like to do more blood work and surgery to test a piece of her intestine.
The surgery test alone is 1500 dollars. As much as I would love to do it to see what could be wrong. My boyfriend and I do not have that money to give. And for it to potentially come up with nothing is a hard to agree to. We just don't want her to be a pin cushion. And we are just at a crossroad. We can't nor do we want to give up on her. We rescued her! We aren't the kind of people to just dump her off anywhere either. We considering getting a second opinion maybe with a cheaper vet. And she just keeps getting worse with her stool which is almost pure liquid. And her behavior at times is almost saddening :'(
If anyone has an idea please let us know. I myself feel trapped alone and scared for my little girl
This is my about 4 year old domestic short haired tortoiseshell cat. She is cleverly named…Tortie. She was rescued by my boyfriend from the SPCA after being in a cage for a whole year ! We call her hound (she acts like a dog) I have had the privilege to have this cat in my life for a while now and as of the past couple of months I'm in distress. For my poor girl is sick
It first happened a few months back when she suddenly started going outside the litter box. Just pooping though. At first, we thought there was something wrong with the litter. or the placement of the box. Or she was being bullied out of the boxes. (we also have a same age male cat) she would go right out side of the box (we caught her on camera) so we tried everything between changing the litter, buying another box and moving the box away from the others. Nothing seemed to work.
One day she was acting funny. My boyfriend made a noise and she ran and hid under the bed. Now, loud noises happen all the time in the house and the cats are never fazed. Also she had never his under the bed before the entire time we have had her. We tried to coax her out and after 20 minutes we eventually pulled her out. Also, she went from eating her food without a issue to us having to watch her and move the bowl to get her to eat (the other cat has a eating problem so we have to watch and feed them separately) also she has been more vocal. Crying for no reason and sometimes unable to even have a audible meow. And this is just varies from day to day. Some days she's our normal baby girl. Other days she is funky
After that incident of her hiding under the bed we decided to take her to the vet for we actually caught her eating a dryer sheet :/. At the vet he checked her for blockage and found none and put her on some broad antibiotics for a week and a bland food diet. The vet thought maybe her food has been making her sick. Boy did she love eating with her medicine! We didn't have to do anything for her to finish. She would even lick her bowl clean! Everything seemed to be great and we didn't find as much poop outside of the box. Other than 1-2 incidents but a week after the medicine she started going everywhere. Even one time in front of us. And the smell made everyone sick it was way worse than normal cat poop smell. And it wasn't fully solid it was moist but not liquid.
So we took her back to the vet. There they did a radiograph of her stomach and drew blood and gave us a tube for a stool sample. Which we turned in within a couple of days. All test came back negative. Which meant no parasite, bacteria, virus or blockage. All thought that sounds good news it also isn't. The doctor would like to do more blood work and surgery to test a piece of her intestine.
The surgery test alone is 1500 dollars. As much as I would love to do it to see what could be wrong. My boyfriend and I do not have that money to give. And for it to potentially come up with nothing is a hard to agree to. We just don't want her to be a pin cushion. And we are just at a crossroad. We can't nor do we want to give up on her. We rescued her! We aren't the kind of people to just dump her off anywhere either. We considering getting a second opinion maybe with a cheaper vet. And she just keeps getting worse with her stool which is almost pure liquid. And her behavior at times is almost saddening :'(
If anyone has an idea please let us know. I myself feel trapped alone and scared for my little girl