Cat owners please help

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Hi can someone help? Please. Came home tonight and found my cat just leaving the litter box. She was covered in blood and poo and in the litter she been but it was runny and blood in it. She then vomitted twice. Took the vet’s who couldn’t examine her due to her behaviour, so said come back tomorrow morning after she’s had some calming down meds. We came home and she’s tried to go the loo 3 times but nothing comes out except tiny amount of blood. I’m beside myself. Can anyone help?

You're a tough crowd!

"Needs emergency vet now" x 9
"Get a 2nd opinion/different vet" ×9
negligent (ouch!) x2
odd x2
bizarre
shockingly bad
not adequate
isn't good enough
not on
useless
appalling

for a diagnostic and treatment plan that I would have followed almost exactly, possibly with one small change- that in light of subsequent information after the first visit, might not have been the best addition anyway.

@powershowerforanhour the OP was clearly not feeling reassured and surely the vet's job, as well as treating the animal, is to communicate to the owner so that they feel confident their pet is being given the best treatment.

So I don't think the original vet did a very good job regardless of clinical ability.

Omg I’m so so sorry for your loss.

Tbh I don’t either. Because of how my cat is they hold their hands up and say they can’t treat her. Which is fair enough, they don’t want to be harmed. But the vet today said she’s not even that bad.

she hisses swipes screeches yowls.

im not fully confident with them anyway

"the OP was clearly not feeling reassured and surely the vet's job, as well as treating the animal, is to communicate to the owner so that they feel confident their pet is being given the best treatment."

OP said the original vet and the emergency vet on the phone both said it was a good sign that the cat was well in herself so that's more or less the best you can say.
I usually add that sudden onset frank blood in F+ in a young, otherwise animal is so unlikely to be cancer that I've never seen it in >20 years, even though I see cats with bloody D+ reasonably frequently (and dogs with it every day of the week). This often calms people down a bit because the excellent colon cancer awareness campaigns in humans have had the unfortunate side effect of completely freaking out owners with colitis pets. And that if it is just colitis then the amount of blood lost - a little bit looks like a lot- is not usually significant enough to be anywhere near needing a tranfusion.

OP said she was sobbing in consult, her partner thinks she's over dramatic and she took some meds herself to calm down last night. Not OPs fault that she feels how she feels but sometimes there's a limit to how reassured people feel till they start seeing the pet improving with their own eyes. I don't think an internet full of strangers telling her that her vet was useless and negligent and that her pet was being deprived of urgent treatment was going to help in the reassurance stakes.
Today's vet inspired more confidence in OP and was able to handle the cat more...probably benefiting from the gaba the first vet had given.

"But the vet today said she’s not even that bad."

Vet today saw a cat with 50mg of chill out juice on board :-) - which by the way, well done on getting into her, not all owners are handy like that. Anyway, if you think the cat and the vets just don't gel then it's probably a good idea to try another, and sensible to look when she's well again like you plan to do, rather than changing horses mid stream. Remember to tell the new vet about the blood in the urine when you go, even if it resolves itself, just so they know she could be FLUTD- prone.

I'm glad she is okay OP, I totally understand how you feel. Fingers crossed your baby feels better soon.

Thanks everyone. I forgot to say she has calichevirus. She’s had it since kitten.

tonight she’s eating but I can tell she’s sick

Thank you i don’t know how I did it.