Thread: Maine Coon not putting on weight

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.