Help with Constipation

I guess I could try the goat’s milk. I put her back on the KMR at the vet’s suggestion. They never mentioned any other alternative that could help or anything so I didn’t know. I’m not 100% sure that she is cleaned out completely. Last time I got her, she was. This time they said she was full of food, but like I said before, there doesn’t seem to be a difference between full of food and full of poop, and since she’s having a hard time going right now I’m inclined to think she’s full of the latter. She also hasn’t been in the mood to eat the last couple of times I offered her food, but she’s still more active than ever before. But she needs to put weight on and I don’t know how to get her to do that. She uses the litterbox on her own, but the vet still told me to stimulate her to go. I don’t really think this is necessary. She goes to the litterbox whenever she needs to go, but the problem is that the only thing that comes out when she tries to go is like, a tiny bit of liquidy stool that coats her tail, so I don’t really see how me stimulating her is accomplishing anything. Also, I do have clumping litter right now since it makes clean up much easier, but I guess I can switch. I’ve never noticed her eating any of it, but I guess it could get in her when she licks her paws. The vet also never suggested this as a possibility. I don’t really want her to have another enema, but if there is stuff stuck in her that won’t come out, I’m not sure how else to get it to come out. This is just a very confusing, frustrating situation and I feel like I’m not getting any answers. All of the suggestions handed down from the vet are the things I have been doing from the beginning. They want to run blood tests to check her liver function, but she doesn’t have enough body mass or blood volume to accomplish this and despite all my efforts, nothing is being added to her body. She has weighed exactly the same for the 2 weeks that I’ve had her. I just don’t get this and am starting to feel very hopeless. Luckily she doesn’t seem to be getting worse, and my only silver lining here is the improvement in her activity, but everything else is making me very anxiety ridden and frustrated.

She doesn’t have a problem with her leg. That must have been another thread, unless I made a typo. An update: I stimulated her about 10 minutes ago and a piece of stool came out. It was about .5 – 1 inch long. Not as big as I’d like, but definitely better than nothing at this point. There’s definitely more in there since this looks like it had broken off of a larger piece. I’m going to try stimulating her every half hour to see if I can get any more of it out of her system. I asked a vet tech about goat’s milk or something with probiotics. She said that they kept her on the KMR mainly for hydration purposes since she won’t drink water on her own. She didn’t really give an opinion on the goat’s milk. She said the vet suggested pedialyte for hydration instead of the formula, and to mix the miralax in with her food and that that’s my best shot at this point. I’m hoping I can empty some more of her bowel out, and then basically be at square 1 and keep up with laxatives and then ask the vet again about the goat’s milk.

The vets did an xray last friday when she was empty to assure me that she was empty. That night and the next day she was defecating normally. Then it firmed up again, I’m assuming because she became dehydrated. I’ll try switching litters and the goats milk. Will the goat’s milk still benefit her even if she is already somewhat impacted?

Okay I found a carton of plain pasteurized goat’s milk and bought that instead since it doesn’t have extra ingredients like the evaporated can did

Okay. I mean, she passed some about an hour ago so maybe she’s not impacted. It’s worth a try

Update: Another piece of poop was expelled after stimulation. I called the vet out of excitement. They were still concerned about liver disease due to the gray color of her stool, but the vet seemed extremely pleased when I informed her that Gracie is capable of producing brown poops, and that those poops were brown when milk was cut out of her diet, and turned grey again when it was reintroduced. So liver stuff has been put on the backburner and they are now just treating this as a case where Gracie’s digestive system just hasn’t reached it’s peak level of functioning. So now I’m just supposed to keep her hydrated, fed, warm and stimulated.

No it’s cool, I’m definitely not offended. I’ve had a very anxious few days, and very little sleep last night, so I’m sorry if my response seemed agitated. She poops best with stimulation right now, which the vet said is expected in developmentally delayed kittens. I suspect that she was the runt of this particular litter since her brother is doing quite well. I can’t say for certain though since there were only 3 kittens left out of 6 when I got to the farm. I’m just glad that the vet seems to think the poop color is not indicative of some sort of liver disease. That is the best thing I’ve heard all day. Other than that I’m going to keep doing what I’m doing, including incorporating the goat’s milk into Gracie’s diet. I’m just hoping I got the right kind. Hopefully her system will regulate itself soon!