25 day old orphaned kitten with severe constipation

The vet told me to use a drop of dish soap in warm water for the enema, so that is all I am adding now. I dont know what glycerin is.

I read alot about enemas last night and I have decided to just give 2ccs both times today. And call first thing tomorrow. I gave 2ccs last night and it worked pretty good and didnt seem excessive or too little.

I am going to try the other 24 hour animal hospital to see if their doctor can just give me an ammount so I feel a little more confident about it.

Cheetah, my dogs are curious, but none of them have done more than sniff her. My cat hated her when we brought her home. If the cat was near us and we had her on our lap then she would hiss and growl something awful (not like her at all).

My vet doesn’t want her in contact with my other pets because we can not be sure if she doesn’t have something that could harm them. She is being treated for coccidia now. But there are really no tests to check her out. We have been trying for a week to get a large enough fecal sample to test, but with her little poops its very hard to get enough in a 12 hour period.

I don’t discourage interaction if my dogs come up to her when she is in my lap, but I am not going to try to get them to lick on her because she might be a carrier to something.

Ok, well…I spent half the day today in tears.

She is eating half what she normally eats all day today. Except one meal she ate a good amount, which made me at least stop crying.

Her stomach is so swollen and hard. It is like the size of a small egg, I cant even imagine that it is poop causing this.

I gave her enemas and subQ fluids twice today. The enemas seem to help, and she is pooping ALOT. But the mass doesn’t seem to be getting smaller to me.

So, her appetite is smaller, her poop is more, her energy and activity levels are normal, as is her urine.

She has a doctor’s appt tomorrow afternoon. I am going to demonstrate the enema and fluids to the doctor to make sure that I am doing it all right.

I am feeling very down today. We took some video of her though. when she is in my lap and I am petting her, she will roll over so that I am petting her hard tummy, and I read on the net that if I rub the area it might stimulate blood flow to the area and might help. So if you check out our blog you will see the video that I took 🙂

Here is the link to her video. http://mousethestory.blogspot.com/2010/04/25-days-old.html

Its at the bottom.

Ok, I’m just wondering out loud here. Has mouse been a bottle-baby from the beginning? If she’s never had any milk from her mom, its possible that she never got the intestinal cultures going that she needs to digest & excrete her food properly. When i get newborns, I use stuff called protexin to counteract that, but please ask your vet about this first though. Even a tiny speck of protexin too much can kill them. Maybe some plain unflavoured yogurt with live cultures might be a safer option?

Mouse didn’t eat her 6am bottle or produce a stool or urine, I am going to call the vet at 8am (when they open) to see if they have an earlier appointment. I slept about 1.5 hours last night and now I can not go back to sleep because of worry.

I am at the vets office. The vet is getting a second opinion from the other vets here in the clinic so I am waiting and posting from my phone.

The vet thinks that the next step would be to take Mouse into get an ultrasound. They want to properly identify the mass. My issue is that the mass is soo big I just can’t see her colon expanding that large and still allowing poop to pass, because she has been pooping since day 1.

The ultrasound was quoted to us as around $300, we just paid $150 for x-rays and she sems to be declining really fast. I hate that money is an issue. But the fact that the test will either show that it is stool – which treatment won’t change, it’s an enlarged organ -which would mean eithinaisa, or parasites and they are going to treat for that today anyway.

I’m bawling my eyes out right now…and my husband has military 24 hour duty today and won’t be home till tomorrow night 🙁