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re: Cat with allergies and possibly IBS?
By Caffeine
re: Cat with allergies and possibly IBS?
By Sumayah
He's strictly an inside kitty. We live close to highways and heavily traveled roads on one side and pasture land on the other, so between the cars and the wild animals, I'd be devastated if anything happened to him outside. He's always had some weird issues. We got him when he wasn't yet a year, but wasn't still super kitten either. He and his sister and their siblings had been fixed and dumped in an apartment parking lot my MiL lived in at the time. Those were the two who frequented her doorstep. We got them all their shots and they see the vet regularly now, but I think he still has a lingering hangover from being so young and having to fend for himself that when you put food out he feels compelled to EAT IT ALL RIGHT NOW because who knows when he might get more. Despite being a housecat for the past 6 or 7 years he still does it.
I've thought that myself. The diarrhea wasn't as frequent before she got here, but he was still throwing up a lot. Once she moved in, it was all diarrhea all the time. He is a super sensitive kitty, so I think her and the evil dog moving in and then leaving no doubt made him unhappy.
I will, as I said, I'm trying the stuff they're going to tell to try first before I have to pay money. I'd rather go in saying, here's what I've done, here's what I've tried, and here's the results so they have a jumping off point of action.
I think the allergies also play a huge part in his tummy troubles. I know when my allergies are bad and I have a lot of drainage, my body reacts poorly, so I can understand why he'd react poorly as well. We've tried the cortisone shot but that was basically a waste of money. Bathing him helped for a few days, but the gunk in his eyes and nose is back. Also he hated bath time. I think he thought he was going to die. However bath time being stressful did nothing to help the nervous, upset constitution regardless of resulting less itchy dander.
Switching to the 1/3C of food per cat a day solved that for me. It took them several day of walking around the house mournfully yelling "I'M STARVING!" "WHY DON'T YOU LOVE ME ANYMORE?" "FEED ME, I BEG OF YOU FEED ME!!!!" "I HATE YOU. I HATE YOU SO MUCH!!" "I'M WASTING AWAY! GAH!" before they acclimatized to the once a day limited food supply. Since then, no more bulimia!
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re: Cat with allergies and possibly IBS? By Caffeine
On Mon Nov 28, 2011 05:18 PM
with the allergies, can you isolate it at all? If it's a grass, can you make him an inside-only kitty?
As for the IBS - could the stress of having your MiL and her dog around have triggered the bowel distress?
Definitely get him checked out by a vet just in case. We were petsitting my mum's cats recently, and one of them got sick - foul projectile vom, weird poo, the works (but oddly, seemed happy in himself). The only thing we had really changed was the dry food (Science Diet instead of Whiskas), and he was crook. Vet suspected it was stress and diet-change related, so gave him antibiotics in case there were something else going on, and a prescription food specifically for IBS and digestive issues. It seems to have cleared him up. If your vet says he's fine, you need a new vet.
(And as an aside: it's good to know my cat isn't the only bulimic cat out there - she, too, eats until she pops then barfs everywhere. World's fattest bulimic.)
As for the IBS - could the stress of having your MiL and her dog around have triggered the bowel distress?
Definitely get him checked out by a vet just in case. We were petsitting my mum's cats recently, and one of them got sick - foul projectile vom, weird poo, the works (but oddly, seemed happy in himself). The only thing we had really changed was the dry food (Science Diet instead of Whiskas), and he was crook. Vet suspected it was stress and diet-change related, so gave him antibiotics in case there were something else going on, and a prescription food specifically for IBS and digestive issues. It seems to have cleared him up. If your vet says he's fine, you need a new vet.
(And as an aside: it's good to know my cat isn't the only bulimic cat out there - she, too, eats until she pops then barfs everywhere. World's fattest bulimic.)
re: Cat with allergies and possibly IBS? By Sumayah
On Mon Nov 28, 2011 07:40 PM
Caffeine wrote:
with the allergies, can you isolate it at all? If it's a grass, can you make him an inside-only kitty?
He's strictly an inside kitty. We live close to highways and heavily traveled roads on one side and pasture land on the other, so between the cars and the wild animals, I'd be devastated if anything happened to him outside. He's always had some weird issues. We got him when he wasn't yet a year, but wasn't still super kitten either. He and his sister and their siblings had been fixed and dumped in an apartment parking lot my MiL lived in at the time. Those were the two who frequented her doorstep. We got them all their shots and they see the vet regularly now, but I think he still has a lingering hangover from being so young and having to fend for himself that when you put food out he feels compelled to EAT IT ALL RIGHT NOW because who knows when he might get more. Despite being a housecat for the past 6 or 7 years he still does it.
As for the IBS - could the stress of having your MiL and her dog around have triggered the bowel distress?
I've thought that myself. The diarrhea wasn't as frequent before she got here, but he was still throwing up a lot. Once she moved in, it was all diarrhea all the time. He is a super sensitive kitty, so I think her and the evil dog moving in and then leaving no doubt made him unhappy.
Definitely get him checked out by a vet just in case. We were petsitting my mum's cats recently, and one of them got sick - foul projectile vom, weird poo, the works (but oddly, seemed happy in himself). The only thing we had really changed was the dry food (Science Diet instead of Whiskas), and he was crook. Vet suspected it was stress and diet-change related, so gave him antibiotics in case there were something else going on, and a prescription food specifically for IBS and digestive issues. It seems to have cleared him up. If your vet says he's fine, you need a new vet.
I will, as I said, I'm trying the stuff they're going to tell to try first before I have to pay money. I'd rather go in saying, here's what I've done, here's what I've tried, and here's the results so they have a jumping off point of action.
I think the allergies also play a huge part in his tummy troubles. I know when my allergies are bad and I have a lot of drainage, my body reacts poorly, so I can understand why he'd react poorly as well. We've tried the cortisone shot but that was basically a waste of money. Bathing him helped for a few days, but the gunk in his eyes and nose is back. Also he hated bath time. I think he thought he was going to die. However bath time being stressful did nothing to help the nervous, upset constitution regardless of resulting less itchy dander.
(And as an aside: it's good to know my cat isn't the only bulimic cat out there - she, too, eats until she pops then barfs everywhere. World's fattest bulimic.)
Switching to the 1/3C of food per cat a day solved that for me. It took them several day of walking around the house mournfully yelling "I'M STARVING!" "WHY DON'T YOU LOVE ME ANYMORE?" "FEED ME, I BEG OF YOU FEED ME!!!!" "I HATE YOU. I HATE YOU SO MUCH!!" "I'M WASTING AWAY! GAH!" before they acclimatized to the once a day limited food supply. Since then, no more bulimia!
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