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I have a 1 1/2 year old spayed female cat that I adopted while living in Singapore and brought back to the states with me last December, she was 6 weeks old when I got her. Recently she started experiencing diarrhea so for a few days I just monitored her and when it didn’t clear up, I brought her to the vet, my vet is a cat specialist for over 25 years and only has feline patients. He examined her and said she was in excellent health, her coat is shiny, her stomach felt fine and sent me home with some anti-diarrhea medicine. After a week her diarrhea did not get better at all, it got worse, it’s nasty stinky watery stool but there is no blood in the stool. I brought her back to the vet and he ran a standard fecal test and a giardia test and she is negative for parasites. He has given me centrine which aids in digestion and wants me to monitor her further. If she is not better in a week then it’s back for my extensive testing. She is up to date on her shots as well. She is on a wet food only diet due to the fact that dry food has caused UTI issues in her as well as my other 2 cats (they are not experiencing any diarrhea) in the past. The vet suggests that just for a week, put her on a dry food only diet to see if it makes it better… this will be hard with 2 cats who are on wet food only but I’ll figure something out.

I’m curious if anyone else has gone through something similar with their cat? If so, I would love if you could tell me how it was treated. Thanks!

My kitten had this problem when I first got him. My vet told me to feed Purina which I did not. I currently feed a high quality dry food and I didn’t see how downgrading the quality was going to help so I waited it out and once he got used to his environment and his food the problem went away.

I have heard that acidophilus is a good remedy for cats with this problem. They sell it here:

http://www.herbalremedies.com/acidophilusforcatskittens.html

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animal lovers out there. I love animals of all kinds and I want to share that lover with others. I have for the past six months collecting information about the health and well being of cats, dogs, horse all kinds of animals. House breaking methods for dogs, feline ailments and cures etc. The thought hit me video people love video. I have been searching online for free animal related videos that I could download and post on my blog. I haven’t had good luck what I find is either funny animal clips, which is cool I will post a few of those on my blog as well or videos I can purchase and download. I really don’t have the money to pay for each clip or short movie I would want to use. I am doing this out of passion not for a profit. I tried searching under free animal video clip and like terms. Can someone help I am not good at searching online. Does anyone know sites that I could download video clips dealing with animal issues, training, health, how to leave alone…. of the correct search terms to use is it open source video clips, public domain I don’t know how to as the question on the search engines to get the results I desire. Could someone please help?

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Further to Vixpetrolia’s question and link to 10 year old study, I contacted Annie Bruce, cat expert,author, and cat behavioural consultant, who has been fighting for a ban on declawing for many years and who knows the truth.This is what she says :
I believe this so called ‘study’ is the one every vet cites (done by Canadian vet Dr. Gary Landsberg.) It wasn’t really a study but a questionaire to vets about THEIR perception of the cats THEY themselves declawed. And according to their conclusions, it’s okay for cats to bite and that exercise wasn’t even considered in regard to cat health. The fact that vets continue to cite invalid data is irresponsible and greedy.
These are the stats published on my web and in my book:
Published 2/1/03 on CourierPostOnline.com, "Eighty percent of the cats that are surrendered that are declawed are euthanized because they have a behavioral problem…. Declawed cats frequently become biters and also stop using litter boxes… One or the other…,” said William Lombardi shelter director, Gloucester County , New Jersey .
A study of 163 cats that underwent onychectomy (declawing), published in the Jul/Aug 1994 Journal of Veterinary Surgery, showed that 50% suffered from immediate postoperative complications such as pain, hemorrhage, and lameness; and long-term complications, including prolonged lameness, were found in nearly 20% of the 121 cats who were followed up on in the study.
In a study published in the January, 2001 JAVMA, 33% of 39 cats that underwent onychectomy developed "at least" one behavior problem immediately after surgery, with the most common problems being litter box problems and biting.
In a recent study published October, 2001, JAVMA by Dr. Gary J. Patronek, VMD, PhD., “…declawed cats were at an increased risk of relinquishment.”
A recent national survey of shelters from the Caddo Parrish Forgotten Felines and Friends indicates that approximately 70% of cats turned in to shelters for behavioral problems are declawed.
From the Summer 2002 issue of PETA’s Animal Times: “A survey by a Delaware animal shelter showed that more than 75% of the cats turned in for avoiding their litter boxes had been declawed.” [emphasis added]
In my own three-year experience, 95% of calls about declawed cats related to litter box problems, while only 46% of clawed cats had such problems—and most of those were older cats with physical ailments. Of my calls, only declawed cats have cost their owners security deposits, leather sofas and floorboards. And it’s mostly declawed cats that have been prescribed pain killers, anti-depressants, tranquilizers and steroids. Two-thirds of my calls are about litter box problems. In 90% of those cases, the cat is declawed, sick or old. In 7 years, only 3 people have called about a “scratching-the-sofa problem” - yet countless of “healthy” declawed cats have peed on sofas.
Annie Bruce

That’s more like the truth!

The so called studies, such a the one highlighted by Vixpetrolia, that are in fact funded by pro-declawing veterinary surgeons are meant to mislead, they are loaded in favour of declawing simply because it is a terrific money maker for the less unscrupulous vets who aren’t in the profession because they care much about animals but because it’s a paying game.

They must be a source of extreme shame and exasperation to their more ethical colleagues

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