Saturday morning, the sound of a cat puking woke us up. I checked it out, it was Pete. We usually don’t think too much of a puke. But they continued, just foamy stuff. I watched him for a couple of hours, then gave him an amoxicillan. He puked that up three and a half hour later. Then I watched him in a litterbox, he cried and had some of the nastiest poo I’ve seen in a while. Very mucusy and bloody. And he cried. He did this multiple times. His backside was wet.
I found the flagyl (besides firming up stool, it also has an antibiotic effect) and gave him a half of a pill (being as these things are so bitter, I split them and put the pill in a beef flavored gelcap) around seven Saturday night. He pooped a small amount sometime before we got up the next morning, but nothing big until last night. He didn’t cry when he went and he went a lot. Still nasty looking, though. And there was no fresh wetness on the rear area. He is still getting the flagyl, twice a day. He’d been showing no interest in food at all.
This morning, I got up around 4:30/5:00 to let the cats out and started looking for Pete. Well, the first thing I did was check the litterbox. There was a small amount of stool in it, the color was weird, some was the pinky/red stuff, there was also some greenish stuff. The first thing I thought of was when you take a bandaid off and the blood on it has gone green. I took this as a good sign. But I couldn’t find Pete in the regular places. I finally found him in the sink in Brian’s bathroom. He did go outside this morning, because it’s so darned cold this morning, I got him back inside. When we got back from our walk, he was on the top level of one of the cat trees in the living room. I got him to eat a little tuna (he didn’t want much at all) and some tuna juice (from tuna packed in water). I also got another flagyl into him.
Poor little guy. Hopefully this will continue to get better. If he doesn’t continue to improve or he has another flare-up after this has resolved, I’ll take him in to get a definitive diagnosis, because this wouldn’t be just a one time thing.