Sick new kitty cat.

So maybe someone can help me out with this problem because the humance association I adopted from snowed me over.

I recently, as in last week, adopted a cat (about 1 yr old). I was told she was given up due to diarrhea, but that it was all cleared up. Since having her in my home, she has been having diarrhea all over my house and also vomiting quite a bit. Also, she has a pretty bad odor coming from her rear area.

Does anyone know of an ongoing problem that could cause this?

Please help if you can, I'm presently quite frustrated with this so called Humane Association. I adopted a kitten before this one that died on me within a week, and they gave me the quite expensive responsibility of having it cremated. I.E. They wouldn't help me at all. I have volunteered in the past at other shelters and trust me, they never would have handled the situation in such a callous, uncaring way.

Signed,

Frustrated in Philly

 

sick little Kitty cat

is the stool a yellowish shade?. I had a problem for several months with Giardia. This is a parasite that lives in the intestines and colon area. It is commonly mentioned as "don't drink the water". It sometimes is difficult to get rid of. A couple of my cats had vomiting because it can cause them to have upset stomachs in addition to diarrhea. Your local vet with a stool sample if they have a tech on hand can usually under a microscope can tell you. There is liquid as well as injection treatments for this. One of mine had it so bad that she was a nervous wreck. She could not control it and hardly ever could make it to a litter box in time since it comes on so fast.

 

one other note re:

Giardia is highly contagious. It is transfered generall in share litter boxes. If for any reason one or more of the cats at the HS were sharing it would only take one with the parasite to give it to another. It is usually contracted due to cats inate want to stay clean. They step in a stool then clean themselves ingesting the parasite.

 

coccadia....can be determined by a fecal exam. It is a stinky stinky situation
cats usually get this from their mothers when they are going through the birth canal.
It can be hard to detect and sometimes a couple of fecal exams are needed....albon will be prescribed and it'll take a couple of weeks and doses. But you do need to take a fecal sample to the vet

 

http://www.marvistavet.com/html/body_coccidia.html

 

parasite issue in fecal

Mary, I thought that coccadia was obtained as kittens. If this cat is a year old can they still contract this?. When I had mine in couple years ago the fecal exam was for all possible parasites. The Giardia showed up and was treated with a liquid than injection that is designed to kill off something in the way of 5 of these type parasites. I remembered him naming them and this one I thought was the one he immediately ruled out due to the cats all being a year and older. I could be wrong.

 

I was thinking same as Mary, coccidia, foul, rancid smelling, its an intermittent shedder and fecal tests can come up clear. We usually would do at least 2 follow up fecal tests after about 3 weeks of medication often the 3 weeks test will show negative but then test again in about another 2 weeks. Its common in shelters and rescues.

If they did all the tests at the shelter and everything was okay you could be looking at testing for IBD, food allergies etc.

 

Sorry...Im not Mary,
Coccidia is predominantly found in younger kittens and puppies but Ive seen it in older pets with compromised immune systems and/or extreme stress, the last rescue I worked at that had cats was really bad for it, the adult healthy cats were fine and we did do random testing but there were some adults that had it.
I agree with the Giardia though also, there was an ongoing Giardia problem at the same rescue with the dogs but it was much easier to clear up and basically involved blocking the gutters that they had running through all the kennels :shock:

 

I had a foster mom a couple of years ago who was a mess (left in an apt. for a month with her previous litter of eight 6 month old kittens and her newborn litter). She had it and she was nearly 2 years old. Luckily the kittens were able to get the meds through her milk and they didn't get it.

 

I'm sorry your kitty is so sick. I hope this site helps in addition to what has been already said:

http://www.kittencare.com/askKC_Tummy_Troubles_Diarrhea.html

 

well...from my personal experience, tritrichomonis foetus can sometimes be mistaken as giardia....

max has had giardia, clostridium, and now diagnosed with tritrichimonis...and christopher has it too...probably mikey at this point, but max is the only one who has the diarrhea.

parasite or bacteria...take lots of fecals in!! :roll: