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Hi Everyone,
Some of you may remember my previous posts about Plushy losing weight. When I last spoke with the vet he had suggested trying to separate the cats at feeding time as it may be a dominance thing. I did this, and Plushy still eats regularly, only he's still losing weight.
I consulted with a second vet (just over internet to kind of get another opinion and to see if my current vet was taking the right approach) and she suggested that IBD may be the culprit since Plushy has runny stool, eats, but still loses weight. My current vet is aware of the runny stool, but sort of keeps brushing this off as a symptom... Anyway, I have been doing a LOT of reading about IBD and this seems like it may be our answer (although i've said that about 5 times now
) I hope this is it! I am taking our other cat, Giraffe, to the vet for his routine shots tomorrow, so I am going to ask the vet more about it then but for now, I had a few questions for others who have been through this.
I read through some threads on here from others with IBD cats and saw that many of you try dietary changes. I recently (about a month ago) switched the cats' hard food from Purina to TOTW (Venison and Salmon) after reading how many problems were linked to grain foods. I do continue feeding them the same soft food (can't remember the brand, but I believe it contains grains so I am looking into switching that too). First, I'm wondering what dietary changes you had to make with your IBD cats? What kinds of foods (brand, protein source, etc) do you use and how can you keep the feeding separate? My cats are used to having free reign of hard food and eat soft food once per day so I'm not sure how to separate them for a specific feeding time since they aren't used to this...?
Also, Plushy hasn't been vomiting, just has diarrhea. Many of the other IBD posts I read included vomiting. Has anyone out there had the just diarrhea part and how was it diagnosed? I am going to see if my vet is willing to let me try a low dose steroid as a trial without requiring a biopsy because I'm just not sure Plushy could handle surgery right now...
Thanks in advance for all of your replies.
Some of you may remember my previous posts about Plushy losing weight. When I last spoke with the vet he had suggested trying to separate the cats at feeding time as it may be a dominance thing. I did this, and Plushy still eats regularly, only he's still losing weight.
I consulted with a second vet (just over internet to kind of get another opinion and to see if my current vet was taking the right approach) and she suggested that IBD may be the culprit since Plushy has runny stool, eats, but still loses weight. My current vet is aware of the runny stool, but sort of keeps brushing this off as a symptom... Anyway, I have been doing a LOT of reading about IBD and this seems like it may be our answer (although i've said that about 5 times now
I read through some threads on here from others with IBD cats and saw that many of you try dietary changes. I recently (about a month ago) switched the cats' hard food from Purina to TOTW (Venison and Salmon) after reading how many problems were linked to grain foods. I do continue feeding them the same soft food (can't remember the brand, but I believe it contains grains so I am looking into switching that too). First, I'm wondering what dietary changes you had to make with your IBD cats? What kinds of foods (brand, protein source, etc) do you use and how can you keep the feeding separate? My cats are used to having free reign of hard food and eat soft food once per day so I'm not sure how to separate them for a specific feeding time since they aren't used to this...?
Also, Plushy hasn't been vomiting, just has diarrhea. Many of the other IBD posts I read included vomiting. Has anyone out there had the just diarrhea part and how was it diagnosed? I am going to see if my vet is willing to let me try a low dose steroid as a trial without requiring a biopsy because I'm just not sure Plushy could handle surgery right now...
Thanks in advance for all of your replies.