DanielayDragon
Lairian
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Hello everyone!
I wanted to share my story in hopes that someone out there has answers.
My husband and I adopted a 12 week old sphynx from a Dallas breeder in February. We had three wonderful months with him, and suddenly, in may, he became lethargic and started vomiting and having diarrea. I rushed him to a local vet on a sunday night and he was given a shot to stop the vomiting and that was about it. The vet suspected he could have eaten something that was blocking his belly so the next morning I took him to the Texas A&M animal hospital and after blood work/x-rays and ultrasound, the only thing they found was a slightly enlarged intestine. So I was sent home with some vomiting medicine. Later on that same day, back in the house, i heard him making the most horrible pain sounds while he was using the litter box. I immediately scooped out the poop and found it bloody and runny. I put him back in the crate and took him back to the hospital. I hadnt heard those sounds until then, and i definitely hadnt seen blood in his stool before. After like three hours, i was told he had IBD and he was put on a bland can diet from proplan and given some powder probiotics, pain medicine, vomit medicine and a dewormer.
He was doing okay for about 4 days and then he quit eating. This is the first time in our lives that we are cat owners by the way, so i didnt know what to do and i let it go for a week and a half before i rushed him back to the ER. By then, he had lost so much weight and it was a pitiful sight. Around that same time, i contacted the breeder and she suggested the raw diet. I got the recipe for it which included (chicken thighs, livers and pumpkin and a supplement called Kitty bloom) I ordered a meat grinder that cost me about $700 and everything i needed to start making my own raw food, I also went ahead and ordered some rad cat food to make sure i had something to feed him just in case. I ordered all the flavors in the Rad cat to see which ones he liked. (chicken, beef, lamb, venison and turkey)
He stayed hospitalized for a whole weekend, and was sent to the gastrointestinal especialist since the ER had done everything there was to do there. i was told the next step was to do an endoscopy, but the gastro especialist said he didnt want to do such an invasive procedure to such a small kitten, because he didnt think there was going to be a definitive answer anyway. This gastro especialist put him on a kitten wet food salmon diet from science diet. By the way, the food i had been giving him since i got him was the science diet for kitten healthy development dry.
When i got him back, i was given more pain/nausea/deworming medicine. And he did really good for a few weeks, and at the same time i was slowly transitioning him into the raw diet. He loved all the rad cat, and he loved the batch i prepared, i even texted the breeder to brag about the miracle that raw food is. Within a couple weeks he was back to having vomit and diarrea and this time i took him to our vet because the bill from A&M had been around $2500 and we couldnt afford to keep paying that kind of money and the kitty wasnt even getting better.
My vet kept him hospitalized, he knew everything that had been going on but he was not okay with feeding raw. So the kitty was put on a prescription diet by hills (digestive care) and this food is the one my kitty has been able to stay on the longest without recurring episodes of vomiting and diarrea. I was also given a plug in called Feliway and was told my kitten might be stressed. Later i noticed that even though he wasnt vomiting, his stool wasnt very firm so i called the vet and i was given some probiotics that i add to his food. He has gone back twice in two weeks recentlly, because he quits eating and starts vomiting. I have no idea what triggers it. The vet keeps telling me the kitty is stressed. We do have two other cats at home but both of them are extremely gentle and have been there since the beginning. We also have a chihuahua that loves all the kitties and she thinks theyre her babies. I cant imagine whats supposedly causing the stress. We do not have any human children, these are our children and i feel like i am not a good mother if i cant figure out whats wrong with my child.
As of two days ago, he isnt eating and started vomiting and has diarrea. I sent the vet a video of how the kitty retches and vomits and how the stool is so watery and kind of bloody. I was told to bring him so they can "put him back on track" which is what theyve been doing the past three times ive taken him. I asked how they feed, how much, etc. Ive been following the same protocol and i am so aggravated, i really dont know how to help him. Is it really that he is not compatible with my household? i love him so much, I refuse to believe he is sick because of me. My husband is afraid that if we give him up (u know, because the vet says our house stresses him) that if it turns out his condition is medical, the new owners are not going to want to spend the money to make him better.
I joined this community a while back and have been reading everything you guys post. At some point, i got overwhelmed with so much info, I have the feeling raw food is going to be my best bet.Im not sure. But I have so many questions. Do i want my own homemade raw food or do i want to buy rad cat? and if yes what flavor? if the food he eats now is chicken, then maybe i should stay away from it? how can i figure out whats making him sick if switching him from one food to another is not recommended? or is there another brand of food that yall can reccomend? What am i doing wrong? if hes not eating can i feed him like boiled chicken or something? Is there medication i can buy online to help him?
I just placed an order for more rad cat food. But i am willing to try ANYTHING you guys suggest.
Thank you to all the people that reads this long post. I think yall are great for having a community for sphynx owners.
My kittys name is Dragon by the way, any help would be much appreciated!
Thank you again.
I wanted to share my story in hopes that someone out there has answers.
My husband and I adopted a 12 week old sphynx from a Dallas breeder in February. We had three wonderful months with him, and suddenly, in may, he became lethargic and started vomiting and having diarrea. I rushed him to a local vet on a sunday night and he was given a shot to stop the vomiting and that was about it. The vet suspected he could have eaten something that was blocking his belly so the next morning I took him to the Texas A&M animal hospital and after blood work/x-rays and ultrasound, the only thing they found was a slightly enlarged intestine. So I was sent home with some vomiting medicine. Later on that same day, back in the house, i heard him making the most horrible pain sounds while he was using the litter box. I immediately scooped out the poop and found it bloody and runny. I put him back in the crate and took him back to the hospital. I hadnt heard those sounds until then, and i definitely hadnt seen blood in his stool before. After like three hours, i was told he had IBD and he was put on a bland can diet from proplan and given some powder probiotics, pain medicine, vomit medicine and a dewormer.
He was doing okay for about 4 days and then he quit eating. This is the first time in our lives that we are cat owners by the way, so i didnt know what to do and i let it go for a week and a half before i rushed him back to the ER. By then, he had lost so much weight and it was a pitiful sight. Around that same time, i contacted the breeder and she suggested the raw diet. I got the recipe for it which included (chicken thighs, livers and pumpkin and a supplement called Kitty bloom) I ordered a meat grinder that cost me about $700 and everything i needed to start making my own raw food, I also went ahead and ordered some rad cat food to make sure i had something to feed him just in case. I ordered all the flavors in the Rad cat to see which ones he liked. (chicken, beef, lamb, venison and turkey)
He stayed hospitalized for a whole weekend, and was sent to the gastrointestinal especialist since the ER had done everything there was to do there. i was told the next step was to do an endoscopy, but the gastro especialist said he didnt want to do such an invasive procedure to such a small kitten, because he didnt think there was going to be a definitive answer anyway. This gastro especialist put him on a kitten wet food salmon diet from science diet. By the way, the food i had been giving him since i got him was the science diet for kitten healthy development dry.
When i got him back, i was given more pain/nausea/deworming medicine. And he did really good for a few weeks, and at the same time i was slowly transitioning him into the raw diet. He loved all the rad cat, and he loved the batch i prepared, i even texted the breeder to brag about the miracle that raw food is. Within a couple weeks he was back to having vomit and diarrea and this time i took him to our vet because the bill from A&M had been around $2500 and we couldnt afford to keep paying that kind of money and the kitty wasnt even getting better.
My vet kept him hospitalized, he knew everything that had been going on but he was not okay with feeding raw. So the kitty was put on a prescription diet by hills (digestive care) and this food is the one my kitty has been able to stay on the longest without recurring episodes of vomiting and diarrea. I was also given a plug in called Feliway and was told my kitten might be stressed. Later i noticed that even though he wasnt vomiting, his stool wasnt very firm so i called the vet and i was given some probiotics that i add to his food. He has gone back twice in two weeks recentlly, because he quits eating and starts vomiting. I have no idea what triggers it. The vet keeps telling me the kitty is stressed. We do have two other cats at home but both of them are extremely gentle and have been there since the beginning. We also have a chihuahua that loves all the kitties and she thinks theyre her babies. I cant imagine whats supposedly causing the stress. We do not have any human children, these are our children and i feel like i am not a good mother if i cant figure out whats wrong with my child.
As of two days ago, he isnt eating and started vomiting and has diarrea. I sent the vet a video of how the kitty retches and vomits and how the stool is so watery and kind of bloody. I was told to bring him so they can "put him back on track" which is what theyve been doing the past three times ive taken him. I asked how they feed, how much, etc. Ive been following the same protocol and i am so aggravated, i really dont know how to help him. Is it really that he is not compatible with my household? i love him so much, I refuse to believe he is sick because of me. My husband is afraid that if we give him up (u know, because the vet says our house stresses him) that if it turns out his condition is medical, the new owners are not going to want to spend the money to make him better.
I joined this community a while back and have been reading everything you guys post. At some point, i got overwhelmed with so much info, I have the feeling raw food is going to be my best bet.Im not sure. But I have so many questions. Do i want my own homemade raw food or do i want to buy rad cat? and if yes what flavor? if the food he eats now is chicken, then maybe i should stay away from it? how can i figure out whats making him sick if switching him from one food to another is not recommended? or is there another brand of food that yall can reccomend? What am i doing wrong? if hes not eating can i feed him like boiled chicken or something? Is there medication i can buy online to help him?
I just placed an order for more rad cat food. But i am willing to try ANYTHING you guys suggest.
Thank you to all the people that reads this long post. I think yall are great for having a community for sphynx owners.
My kittys name is Dragon by the way, any help would be much appreciated!
Thank you again.