Struggling to cope week 5 of splatter diorheah from 5 months kitten

[TheHouseonHauntedHill]

I've started a thread in litter ( before the thread zealots) jump on me.

I'm now struggling to cope with cat diorheah.

Five week's in.

Splash everywhere her butt and trousers splattered...walls in it...we are having to confine her to the kitchen.

She has a walk on a lead and one hour of play inside. Otherwise she's smearing poo.

We have wipes but are careful as they hurt her.

Poo samples are clear but not back on the one beginning with C.
If that's clear we look at other stuff.

We live in a small house. One main living area and a closed off kitchen.

It's a horror show. I've had pets before and nothing like this. It's my worst nightmare in. Pet. My girls cant hug their pet.

What else can we do..i dare not change food .

Is there anything I can ask vet for or do.

I did buy some special gastro cat food and it's done nothing.
I'm desperate. I'm extremely worried about hygene.

My rescue kitten had bad diarrhoea for weeks. She was treated twice for coccidia, even though her stool tests were negative. After the second lot of antibiotics she was fine, and she's been fine ever since (apart from being really greedy and eating half of my quiche that I accidentally left out yesterday).

Why don't you just give her natural food? Chicken, tuna? For sure the cereals in what you give her could do this.

I'd be giving her nothing for half a day or longer, then starting on blanched chicken, white fish or tuna.

I am also going to ask about Giardia. This is what caused my cat's explosive diarrhoea.

I also agree with poached chicken for a while. You shred it into tiny bits and it cooks almost as soon as it hits the boiling water. The fact they love the poaching water is good because most cats don't drink enough.

Yep, poached chicken or white fish is the way to go OP, then grain free good quality cat food. 😻

Switch her to raw food or white fish/rice, something very bland. Mine had endless diarrhoea on standard dog food (puppy, obviously). I gave him Sainsbury diarrhoea tablets, 2 doses cured him. Your cat sounds like she’s allergic to something. Has the vet not suggested an elimination diet? Have you spoken to a qualified nutritionist? Many vets have very little nutrition training. You’re giving a mad mix of foods, you need to simplify.

You need to keep her indoors.

I'm sorry but even on a harness, you are being incredibly irresponsible by letting her out. If she slips that harness and runs, you'll have much bigger problems than runny poo. A pregnancy at her age could kill her and the kittens.

She needs to be spayed as a matter of urgency, then you can address her diet and the stomach issues.

If you use a food for gastro intestinal problems you should not mix it with any other foods or it defeats the object of its use.
Royal canin sensitivity food or gi are very good , try one or the other , they come in wet and dry - the same diet in 2 forms.
You may need to use a diet like this for quite a long while but do not be tempted to add or mix any other food or makes of food into it.
You may have a cat that always has a sensitive gut but equally often kittens like this grow out of it in time.
I work in a vets and i know how miserable this situation is for pets and their owners .

@tsmainsqueeze

Thanks.
Reason mixed it was because told that we should gradually change the food not suddenly esp with such sensitive tummy.
I'm wondering should we try going totally to the sensitivity food and boiled chicken?

Cats are carnivores, they don’t need carbs, fruit and veg, they certainly don’t need dry food (cats have a low thirst drive and are designed to get their fluid from their food, a drinking cat is a dehydrated cat, and no, dry food doesn’t clean their teeth). Dry food is also a hive of bacteria, so never mix it with wet as this encourages more bacterial growth.

After a plain diet (boiled white fish or chicken), I would slowly move her onto a wet food with a high meat content, places like zooplus have lots to choose from, the cheapest is probably butchers in the yellow tins.

@thelobsterquadrille

Thank you for your concerns.

We are adults here and a risk assessment done with harness.
She doesn't try and run off or get out of the harness. She is a very calm and compliant cat.
There is no way she will get out of a secured harness.

Simon the food is in sepate bowl's.

Half wet morning and night and dry during day

But not separate tummies.

Well, being brutally honest, haven't risk assessed very well at all if you have a kitten who still hasn't been spayed by five months, let alone one you're letting outside. Add stomach issues on top and I would say you're being highly irresponsible and potentially neglectful.

Pregnancy isn't the only thing you're risking. If she has disease in her poo, it could spread to other cats outdoors. If she remains unspayed, she could get pyometra which can be deadly if not caught early enough.

Still, you're an adult who's risk-assessed, so who am I to worry?

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Vet said everything's is class so far on her screen.

I had this with our cats as kittens. I think I wasn't great at their diet and made too many changes too quickly. I suspect a raw diet would settle it, as that was what ours had been fed by the breeder. However I was worried about germs and the children. They did eventually settle being fed plain cooked chicken breast and a slow introduction of a simple food such as Costa (?) or Almo. Some of these foods don't have taurine added which can be added separately. Zooplus sell it all. With one of them, I had terrible advice from the vet and my cat was getting very weak. I spoke to another breeder who suggested what to feed them and it worked.

@LabiaMinoraPissusFlapus
Thank,it's absolute awful isn't it. 😪

We have one more stool test to try as well.

Going to start the cooked chicken tonight.

@Brigante9

Do you think we should try shop brought dirorha stuff?
I didn't knows supermarkets did pet medicine?

I notice in all responses that no one has mentioned stress. I have had cats for over 35 years, and kittens and young cats can have diarrhoea due to this.

Does she have a safe place to go at home away from interaction from humans. Is she getting enough time alone to sleep and rest.

@TheHouseonHauntedHill the active ingredient in the supermarket own brand stuff in Sainsbury is exactly what the vet would give you-I checked, I didn't just randomly give it. Comes from having horses/dogs for decades, you spend a lot of time with vets if you have a horse!

@Brigante9 sorry if my post came across as if I thought you had randomly given any old tablet's 😂

She's our first pet, and we are thrown into this I genuinely didn't know supermarkets did pet medicine.

Why hasn't the vet offered us any!

Or mentioned they exist!

Tootsy she seems happy enough, a good high cat tree with several bed's she loves and other spots that's seem to be her favourite around the house..we give her two good play's a day (usually) tons of affection from all 4 of us.

Who knows but she seems ok in that way.

Second this

andnnone of the food you’re feeding her is dong any good
royal canin doesn’t suit any of my cats and those other foods are full of filler and grain etc

try poached chicken with the water and cooked rice in small quantities

she might have a food intolerance

Also shop bought flea and worm treatments aren’t a good choice

she needs something like advocate which your vet can provide you with the pr two separate doses for fleas and worming

@Whiskeypowers

Thanks, she has been on an actual vet program for flea and worm so it's the proper stuff.
Her stool samples have come back clear Inc giruadia.

No worms.

@Anoooshka

If the tests said negative how come they still gave antibiotics for it??

It's now pretty much water dirorha shooting out.😪

Food allergy

highly unlikely with such a kitten but thyroid problems can cause explosive diarrhoea

further blood tests or allergies ruling out ….

Echo this, don't touch supermarket flea/worm tablets, they're worse than useless.

@TheHouseonHauntedHill probably because it's long term, the vet hasn't mentioned it. It strikes me as the food. Royal Canin contains nasty preservatives (or did when a breeder friend emailed to ask if they used BHA/BHT, nasty stuff) Did you get her from a reputable source? Do you know any of the other kitten owners? Have you contacted her breeder to discuss this?

Above all, I'd say she needs a re-set-plain cooked chicken and rice, add water and possibly electrolytes as she's losing fluid, basically. Once you've settled on something, don't keep changing foods, that is usually disastrous.