Hi I'm new here. Hoping to find advice! I'm hoping someone else has dealt with this issue! I've had cats my whole life but never seen anything like this before. I rescued a 9 week old kitten from a lady who had no idea what she was doing. She was feeding the poor baby adult purine indoor dry food along with wet food mixed with cows milk. The poor little thing barely weighs a pound I think because she was having a hard time eating. I've since switched her over to a higher priced kitten food and cut out her dairy intake. She struggles to poop. She'll go in the litter box and push and push for a minute and the poop barely comes out leaving me to get it out for her. Her little butthole is completely mishapen I thought maybe it was just swollen and irritated due to poor diet and diarrhea? I took her to the vet today. Vet said her anus is so swollen she can't even determine the poor things sex. She gave me a couple topical creams and advised that I clean her butt and apply the cream every couple hours. She said she doesn't know if it'll make it better or not but I'm hoping it will. She said she could just have a birth defect. [emoji]9785[/emoji]️ I hope she's okay. I've only had her a short period of time and love her so much. Any help or expirience you guys have had with this would help tremendously!! Thanks in advance!