Originally Posted by elizabeth
Help. Bartholomew is 4 months old and only weighs 2 pounds. He has had the feline lukemia test, had the shots he needs, extensive blood work, stool samples sent to a special lab to check for parasites. change his food to different organic foods every week, xray of his belly--and still no diagnoses. He is starving all the time. When I feed him and his sister, he runs between her bowl and Penelupe's bowl and gulps his food down. Within three to five minutes he poops it all out. It is extremely runny and then it gets on him, so then I have to bathe him. We keep the litter box very clean. I sit and watch him eat and wait until he loses it and clean his box. When he is not eating, I check the box every half hour to make sure it is clean. At night I get up every 3 hours to check the litter box and clean it if I need to and give Bartholomew another bath. Our vet is going to a convention this weekend and said he would discuss his case at one of the senimars. He is checking with a specialist tomorrow. Does anyone have any suggestions? known of a case like this? (please don't tell me if you know a kitten that has died from this)
Elizabeth
I would be concerned about his fluid intake also with so much diahrea. That he's not dehydrating! But honestly I have mom"s cat with the feline luekemia, he is 16 and diagnosed over 6 years ago. And the dia is ocassional. Yours is obviously having no obstruction problems, and I would have to agree it sounds like some type of tapeworm.Has anyone tried giving a worming medication to see if this helps? I go to feed store and get fishmox capsules, amoxicillin 250mg and pour capsules content into their food once a day for 7 to 10 days when I notice my animal is under the weather. They sell the shots too, but I won't buy those. But mine are well over 4 months old.Try calling like Petsmart and see if they have a food or supplement that may slow down the loose stool, without having adverse reactions! He obviously can't gain weight when it goes thru him that fast.