Thread: Sicky/Poop-y Problem?

Go back to the basic rule if animal seems fine & happy starve for 24hours,water down only,fuel a fire & it won't go out,after 24 hours start introducing a light diet,fish or chicken after next 24hrs if all ok start slowly introducing normal food back,if still bad or seems to go off colour at any point get to the vets,especially if it is coming from both ends.It is always handy to have a product like Pro kolin in the "animal medicine chest",you can just buy it over the counter & is handy to have on standby for such cases,I use good old fashioned Kaogel,with the amount of cats in this house a bottle of that & dosing syringe are always kept to hand. A lot of the time biscuits can actually make things worse as they are heavy on the tum.
I would also agree with Heather about trying to go over onto adult food,kitten is very very rich & lets face things it hasn't been on the market that many years,going back to my first pup & kitten you had a choice of Chappie & Kitekat,that was it,one size fitted all.
As for litter trays we have always had deep ones filled at least half way up with litter,as we are having to replace them though we are getting the storage containers that you use in the home,lot better choice of depth,length,lot cheaper & lot easier to clean as well.
Sorry no sympathy for the other half he now knows how his mum most probaly felt cleaning up after him a few times as a babe,give me animal any day,smelly or otherwise...x

Have you seen the oven cleaning trays from Lakeland? I have thought about one but my two seem happy with their covered tray at the mo.

Just wait till Teddy honks up his first hair sausage (I refuse to call it a hair ball!) Dave will really get a shock lol!

How's Teddy? I've been worried about him. Hopefully all cleared up now. I think you should send Dave round all our coonies litter boxes for a while pmsl. More hugs to Teddy xxx

Thanks for all the advice - I really appreciate it.

Today we've not given him any wet food and just let him munch on his biscuits when he wants to. He's not been sick today and again he's been acting completely normally. Dave checked his tray for poop but we couldn't smell any (unlike the earlier poos which had Dave gagging) or see any in the tray.

We'll see what he's like tomorrow and we'll give him some wet food - if he's sick again then we'll assume it's the food. It's strange as he's never had any issues before. I'm convinced he managed to eat something he shouldn't have.

I'll keep you all updated!

I wanted us to have a covered

Just wait till Teddy is bigger, Hectors 'output' is bigger than my mates staffies!! and when he gets a runny bum yuk.

Catslave: Teddy's seeming alright, thanks for you concern! No more accidents since I posted the thread - we've given him a little wet food this morning so we'll see what happens. He's been running around like a mentalist because Dave actually left the flat for work this morning. Teddy's not used to that at all! He tried to sneak into the porch after him.

I have a feeling he could have drank some milk out of Dave's cereal - he's forever trying to do that and Dave's stupid enough to leave his bowl sitting on the counter while he gets juice or something. I'm not sure! Would that have made him ill?

I meant to finish that previous post with 'I wanted to get a covered littler tray but our breeder said Teddy would grow too big and would end up looking like a tortoise.'

Helen - oh god! Haha! A couple I've fished out so far were pretty big - a bit like what our KCS doggie would have done! I'll inform Dave that things are only going to get bigger!

Your OH is gunna have to get over it wait until he finds a furball under his bare feet in the middle of the night

Try and not let your OH stress out Teddy, cats are very easily stressed and being so upset by it all could of made him sick, Tabitha is an extremely stressy cat and if something upsets her she'll be sick, she also over grooms so gets a lot of furballs!

Cows milk could of upset his belly or made him sick, no animals should drink milk after weaning, Tabitha always tries to get at cereal bowls or ice cream and Jimmy tries to drink our glasses of squash at night.

Jimmy used to stand on poops when we first got him, we wiped his feet with baby wipes but it did leave a bit of a pong on him so he had to have a bath whenever he did it.

I'm so sorry to bother you all again but Teddy's just been sick again.

All week he's been fine, his poos have been okay - not really firm but not super sloppy either. We started putting more litter in the tray and it seemed to keep him from getting mucky paws. The poops are quite a bit smellier than usual though which worries me.

We slowly introduced his food again and he was eating well until just now when he threw up his breakfast and lunch (immediately after eating his lunch). I don't think he's had any biscuits today. All I can think is that his wet food is too rich for him - would that be possible since he was eating it for three weeks and was fine?

Any advice is much appreciated!

Food could be a bit rich but as he has been fine for so long wouldn't think it is that, being the time of year it is would make me wonder if he is going to give you a nice hairball as a present,that could also make his poo a bit smellier,if he is pretty good in himself {although hairballs wipe a couple of mine out for 48hrs} go back to the basics again,light diet but if he does throw up a hairball you would be fine on normal diet,any unusual quietness though or worries a visit to the nice vet would be order of the day,nightmare aren't they,you could always just have a quick word with his breeder I know I used to fall back on my breeder friend a hell of a lot in early MC ownership days for reassurance & thats from someone who has worked at a vets umpteen years,still can't forget finding the lump on Merl & while I was waiting for hubby to get home so we could get him up to work I phoned my friend in tears,had him dead & buried because the lump just had to be cancerous at his young age didn't it...? She came rushing round with a good idea what it was after I had told her the position of it,vaccine reaction,what a plonker,work still won't let me forget the phone call I hade to make back to them but when its your own all common sense goes out the window & panic sets in,I am sure Teddy will be fine,might even have eaten brekkie too quick & threw it up & then being extra hungry done the same at lunch & ejected it even quicker,just give him water for a few hours & then perhaps try him with something really light later on,warn the OH there could be worse to come yet,bless...x