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Hello to all of you! I've been reading through the forums and very much appreciating all the help you provide other members. I had been hesitant to post because I thought we were out of the water but it looks like the issues are continuing.
My beautiful Maine Coon, Monino is 12 years old. Soon to be 13. He's always been a healthy cat, very amorous and gentle. A few months back he seemed odd, my husband said he was fine but my cat-mom instinct told me otherwise. I picked him up and his little butt was swollen and oozing stuff. I freaked out but we took him to the ER right away - this happened on a Saturday night - we were told that he was very constipated and they didn't know why, but he got a cat enema, antibiotics and pain medication. We thought we were out of the woodwork. Except that the next weekend it happened again and we found ourselves back in the ER. Well by this point we had already paid over $800 for both visits and still had no idea what was wrong. Side note: I don't want to be paranoid but all of this happened shortly after I had started him on Call of the Wild, which had the recall, except my state was not included in it but I ordered it through Amazon.com. They didn't find Salmonella in any of his tests either but I have a feeling there was something sketchy.
We were told that he might have megacolon and might need to have surgery to remove it. We were then sent home with Lactulose and told to give it to him twice a day.
Within two weeks Monino was backed up again, this time it happened during the day so we took him to a vet in the area - if you are from IL, we live in the burbs and took him to Northlake Animal Hospital to see Dr. Blazer - the vet there said that he didn't think Monino needed the surgery right away and gave us additional medicine - cisapride - to give him twice a day. He also said Monino needed to be in a low-residue diet and gave us two options IAMS or Eukanuba; we tried the Eukanuba and he didn't like it, we tried IAMS and he was eating it just fine. I started to think that Monino was feeling a little bony and sure enough within two weeks he was really, really bony. He's never been a chubby cat so I could tell the difference right away. We took him back to the vet and he said we could try mixing in fancy feast - Monino's favorite food - with the low residue. Within a week we were back in the vet's office getting another enema.
So that brings us up to today. Monino does not want to eat the IAMS food, he looks depressed and I don't know if it's because he hates his food or why he's acting like this. The vet says that this is the only option for Monino but my heart is breaking because he's not eating and now I don't know if he lost the weight because he's not eating or if it was from the food.
I'm hoping some of you who've experienced this before can offer me some advice. Here is a picture of my baby so you can get to know him:
My beautiful Maine Coon, Monino is 12 years old. Soon to be 13. He's always been a healthy cat, very amorous and gentle. A few months back he seemed odd, my husband said he was fine but my cat-mom instinct told me otherwise. I picked him up and his little butt was swollen and oozing stuff. I freaked out but we took him to the ER right away - this happened on a Saturday night - we were told that he was very constipated and they didn't know why, but he got a cat enema, antibiotics and pain medication. We thought we were out of the woodwork. Except that the next weekend it happened again and we found ourselves back in the ER. Well by this point we had already paid over $800 for both visits and still had no idea what was wrong. Side note: I don't want to be paranoid but all of this happened shortly after I had started him on Call of the Wild, which had the recall, except my state was not included in it but I ordered it through Amazon.com. They didn't find Salmonella in any of his tests either but I have a feeling there was something sketchy.
We were told that he might have megacolon and might need to have surgery to remove it. We were then sent home with Lactulose and told to give it to him twice a day.
Within two weeks Monino was backed up again, this time it happened during the day so we took him to a vet in the area - if you are from IL, we live in the burbs and took him to Northlake Animal Hospital to see Dr. Blazer - the vet there said that he didn't think Monino needed the surgery right away and gave us additional medicine - cisapride - to give him twice a day. He also said Monino needed to be in a low-residue diet and gave us two options IAMS or Eukanuba; we tried the Eukanuba and he didn't like it, we tried IAMS and he was eating it just fine. I started to think that Monino was feeling a little bony and sure enough within two weeks he was really, really bony. He's never been a chubby cat so I could tell the difference right away. We took him back to the vet and he said we could try mixing in fancy feast - Monino's favorite food - with the low residue. Within a week we were back in the vet's office getting another enema.
So that brings us up to today. Monino does not want to eat the IAMS food, he looks depressed and I don't know if it's because he hates his food or why he's acting like this. The vet says that this is the only option for Monino but my heart is breaking because he's not eating and now I don't know if he lost the weight because he's not eating or if it was from the food.
I'm hoping some of you who've experienced this before can offer me some advice. Here is a picture of my baby so you can get to know him: