Gypsy :)

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    Liz
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    Hey 🙂 it’s been a while since I posted. Gypsy is prolly around 7 months old now (maybe 8). For a loooong time she had issues with Coccidia, which led to blood and mucous in her stool. That’s all cleared up except her stools still aren’t normal like my adult cats (not really diarrhea but loose stools)….and boy is she gassy!! Horrible gassy she clears the room she smells so bad. My two other cats don’t have gas issues and have normal looking stools.

    I bought some cat food specially formulated for sensitive stomachs and she’s only been on that for two days. Hopefully that will clear up her gas. If not, I plan on deworming her again.

    Google searches have led me to think this is quite common in kittens (even though personally this is my first kitten to have such a horrible gas issue). A lot of the posts by concerned cat parents is that fecals came back negative and their cats had already been dewormed but still experiencing gas issues….and that maybe it’s diet related.

    Anyone experience something similar with their kitties?

    Gypsy had been on two rounds of metronidazole, one round of Albon and a round of Panacur. She’s had her fair share of medicine for parasites (which makes me think its diet related and not parasites, but we will see).

    Here is a picture of Gypsy (in the middle) with her two adopted brothers, Oscar (tuxedo 6 years old) and Oliver (black pygmy panther 7 years old)

    Gypsy

    #827570
    katzenjammer
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    Gorgeous trio!!! Miss Gypsy’s callie colouring is awesome. Sorry that I don’t have any advice for you Liz, other’s might. Or what about a call to your vet’s?

    #827575
    Anonymous
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    They are a beautiful trio! Miss Gypsy’s coloring stands out next to her Black and Tuxie brothers. I hope her diet change does the trick.

    #827576
    Liz
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    Thanks everyone! I hope the diet does the trick too. If not I’ll deworm again, and if that still doesn’t do the trick I’ll take her into the vet. 🙂

    #827579
    Kittyzee
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    Liz, those are some good looking cats you have there!! They are all just adorable, and Gypsy is very cute!! I tend to think since you have given her many meds for parasites, it probably is a diet issue. I would just let things die down, because the more you switch food, you will never be able to figure out what it is in her diet causing the problem. As long as she isn’t passing blood, or having issues making it to the litterbox–maybe she is just a gassy cat, LOL! If she is getting a lot of fiber or dairy products, this could be causing her gas too. Thanks for the update Liz, keep us posted!

    #827582
    CheetahBoysmommy
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    Your family is beautiful.

    Ask your vet if you can give Gypsy a bit of plain yogurt. If a human had been taking all those meds it could kill all the good bacteria in their guts. Maybe your girl just needs to get some beneficial and active bugs in her tummy.

    #827766
    Liz
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    I don’t want to speak tooo soon, but the food I put Gypsy on (for sensitive skin & stomach) has made a HUGE difference in her tummy problems! She still passes gas, but not very much. Instead of pooping 2-3 times a day, she is pooping once a day. The litter box also doesn’t stink to high heaven LOL And over the past few days I think maybe she has grown! If she had a dietary sensitivity it could have been she wasn’t getting all the nutrition she needed since she was putting so much waste in the litter box. The bonus is that the food is also for sensitive skin, and my cat Oscar will sometimes lose hair (dermatitis), etc so I hope this food helps him out too! 😀

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