Thread: Maine Coon not putting on weight

Thanks for the kind comments.

Yes sorry i meant 12 weeks, not sure where 32 came from.

After having a chat with the breeder she sugested Giardia could also be the cause. If this turns oout to be the case I'm disapointed that the vet kept sugesting only advocate instead of something like panecure.

The breeder also suggested stopping the wet food to see if it helps and getting some paste called 'Nourishem' or something similar to give to her to bump up her callorie intake.

I just had another thought also, we have another cat that we rescued about a year ago. Tiberius is an avid hunter and is always hunting mice etc in the spring. Martha is strictly a house cat but Tibs has bought prey into the house before, i'm wondering if she has nibbled on something he has bought in before which has caused an issue? Tibs is in fine health and is a big muscular moggy with no signs of parasites etc. I am worried that things may get transfered though.

We are waiting for Martha to do another poop so we have a large enough specimin, then we are going to boil out and disenfect her tray, and give her the medicine as well as Tibbs some panecuure tocover all basis. I just hope we can get this medicine in her food quickly and she starts to recover.

We are out right now looking for this paste for her which i hope to give her later.

Sorry for any typos this reply is on my phone.

Thanks.

I have a boy coonie who had an intestinal problem with recurrent diarrea that smelt like drainage, he was on a low dose antibiotic for a year and has now grown out of it, I dont think this is your problem but the reason I say it is because I swopped him at 6 months old onto royal canin intestinal (my vet rang royal canin and it is ok for young cats), this is more sensitive than the sensitive and it is a high calorie food so supports a cat that is struggling to put on weight or has bowel problems. Maybe a bag to get you over the treatment would help.
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Originally Posted by quass

Thanks for the kind comments.

Yes sorry i meant 12 weeks, not sure where 32 came from.

After having a chat with the breeder she sugested Giardia could also be the cause. If this turns oout to be the case I'm disapointed that the vet kept sugesting only advocate instead of something like panecure.

The breeder also suggested stopping the wet food to see if it helps and getting some paste called 'Nourishem' or something similar to give to her to bump up her callorie intake.

I just had another thought also, we have another cat that we rescued about a year ago. Tiberius is an avid hunter and is always hunting mice etc in the spring. Martha is strictly a house cat but Tibs has bought prey into the house before, i'm wondering if she has nibbled on something he has bought in before which has caused an issue? Tibs is in fine health and is a big muscular moggy with no signs of parasites etc. I am worried that things may get transfered though.

We are waiting for Martha to do another poop so we have a large enough specimin, then we are going to boil out and disenfect her tray, and give her the medicine as well as Tibbs some panecuure tocover all basis. I just hope we can get this medicine in her food quickly and she starts to recover.

We are out right now looking for this paste for her which i hope to give her later.

Sorry for any typos this reply is on my phone.

Thanks.

Hi Steve,think you could be looking for panacur paste,thats what we reccommend for kittens at work,don't go for any higher calorie food until she is sorted because that in itself could aggrivate the diarrhoea,yep agree with breeder to try something for a boost either what she has suggested or as she is eating well something like nutra gel plus,hopefully once you get the sample to the vets you should have the first results through pretty quickly but obviously takes a bit longer to grow the bacteria side & as Bethy_boo says she will catch up bless her.

Thanks both.

She's not been to the toilet again yet, we really want her to hurry up bless her so we can get the medicine in her food (the vet told us to hold off until we had the specimin).

We're both quite upset about it at the moment knowing she is half the cat she should be :(. I was thinking we should have got some tests done sooner, but then a couple of months pass so quickly and we have been trying what has been suggested so far.

We've grabbed another dry food for upset tummies and we have just mixed a small amount of that in with her regular dry food. We've yet to source the paste but we are popping out again to pets at home to have a look in a minute.

I just hope we can get it sorted sooner rather than later.