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I feel a little bit more positive about things today, but I’m still bracing myself for something seriously wrong and potentially losing him because I don’t really know what caused this in the first place. And I really cannot afford to do huge measures like I used to in the past.
I kept saying to Fred he has the most Purrfect poop, it’s perfectly shaped, doesn’t smell a lot, he poops every couple of days or every day usually and doesn’t seem to have any problems and then all of a sudden this happens. So now I have five cats that have bowel problems and it’s just starting to get very overwhelming with everything else I am dealing with.
I will look into that supplement. I’m very hesitant about any type of supplementation like that because I tried all that many times with my cats that were having issues, and it usually didn’t help at all or made them worse. In merlins case who had diarrhea and now he has it again the only thing that helped was when I started him on the home cooked food. Same thing with Zena, and Quinn. Giving Merlin SB actually ended him up at the ER DVM were they sent him home, covered and feces, and lied to me about it. Last time I called my regular Dvm because they were getting diarrhea again when they were switched to different dry foods when I fractured my spine, he said just to give them five or so against my better judgment. I gave them the psyllium again and it made them even worse.
There is no way I can do a home cooked diet for five cats. I just can’t do it at all anymore. It’s too hard on me physically and it would be very expensive so they’ve been eating meow mix and then Quinn has a grain free more expensive brand. I tried giving that to all of them and Merlin and Xena got terrible runs on that one and some other ones we tried after while I just got fed up with the whole thing, and I give up because I cannot spend my entire life trying to figure out which food is going to work when none of them really work. I also have my own bowel problems so it’s kind of a nightmare all of it.
In the past, none of my cats really has any bowel problems occasionally maybe somebody had diarrhea for a day and then it went away without me even doing anything.
Quinn is the only one that’s really cured now knock on wood because he can pretty much eat anything and he’s OK. The only thing is sometimes he gets constipated. I’m giving him some wet food every day and that seems to do it but sometimes I will give him some laxatone. He also will vomit when that happens but he never has any blood in the stool or anything like that.
I’m wondering if I can give Fred some MiraLAX I’m going to ask them tomorrow, I will call them. Because I was reading about people whose cats have megacolon and they were giving them MiraLAX to help the constipation.
I don’t know if Fred would eat the supplement. I’ve been trying to get him to eat wet food and he won’t eat it. He loves his mewo mix. But he has eaten some wet food before this and outside. He just ate the treat so far but he could still be feeling sick from the enema and everything. I don’t know for all I know he could have cancer or a blockage and they didn’t diagnose it properly.
it’s hard to believe you could spend this amount of money and still have no real idea for sure what’s going on. But that’s medicine for you big bucks with often no answers [/QUOTE]
I feel a little bit more positive about things today, but I’m still bracing myself for something seriously wrong and potentially losing him because I don’t really know what caused this in the first place. And I really cannot afford to do huge measures like I used to in the past.
I kept saying to Fred he has the most Purrfect poop, it’s perfectly shaped, doesn’t smell a lot, he poops every couple of days or every day usually and doesn’t seem to have any problems and then all of a sudden this happens. So now I have five cats that have bowel problems and it’s just starting to get very overwhelming with everything else I am dealing with.
I will look into that supplement. I’m very hesitant about any type of supplementation like that because I tried all that many times with my cats that were having issues, and it usually didn’t help at all or made them worse. In merlins case who had diarrhea and now he has it again the only thing that helped was when I started him on the home cooked food. Same thing with Zena, and Quinn. Giving Merlin SB actually ended him up at the ER DVM were they sent him home, covered and feces, and lied to me about it. Last time I called my regular Dvm because they were getting diarrhea again when they were switched to different dry foods when I fractured my spine, he said just to give them five or so against my better judgment. I gave them the psyllium again and it made them even worse.
There is no way I can do a home cooked diet for five cats. I just can’t do it at all anymore. It’s too hard on me physically and it would be very expensive so they’ve been eating meow mix and then Quinn has a grain free more expensive brand. I tried giving that to all of them and Merlin and Xena got terrible runs on that one and some other ones we tried after while I just got fed up with the whole thing, and I give up because I cannot spend my entire life trying to figure out which food is going to work when none of them really work. I also have my own bowel problems so it’s kind of a nightmare all of it.
In the past, none of my cats really has any bowel problems occasionally maybe somebody had diarrhea for a day and then it went away without me even doing anything.
Quinn is the only one that’s really cured now knock on wood because he can pretty much eat anything and he’s OK. The only thing is sometimes he gets constipated. I’m giving him some wet food every day and that seems to do it but sometimes I will give him some laxatone. He also will vomit when that happens but he never has any blood in the stool or anything like that.
I’m wondering if I can give Fred some MiraLAX I’m going to ask them tomorrow, I will call them. Because I was reading about people whose cats have megacolon and they were giving them MiraLAX to help the constipation.
I don’t know if Fred would eat the supplement. I’ve been trying to get him to eat wet food and he won’t eat it. He loves his mewo mix. But he has eaten some wet food before this and outside. He just ate the treat so far but he could still be feeling sick from the enema and everything. I don’t know for all I know he could have cancer or a blockage and they didn’t diagnose it properly.
it’s hard to believe you could spend this amount of money and still have no real idea for sure what’s going on. But that’s medicine for you big bucks with often no answers [/QUOTE]
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