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He is beautiful but thin bless him. Maybe Vaseline will help soothe his sore bottom. Is there a reason the sensitive pouches werent supplemented with the dry sensitive? You may find that plain live yoghurt is just as good as prokolin and at a fraction of the price.
From the weight gain it sounds like you are feeding him the right amount.
To be honest I think you are making a lot of work for yourself with boiling chicken breasts, I recently had similar problems with a rescue and solved it by feeding Whiskas Simply ( cereal free).
Good Luck , hope things soon improve.
is vaseline ok? didnt want to before incase he licked it off? no dry because the vet said 2 pouches a day and nothing else (mean vet
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Lacto- B is another probiotic- as reccommended by firefox and helen before as cheaper/better than prokolin. i didnt know whiskas simply was cereal free, i will look into it when the chickens finished. time wise- if it puts an end to the endless cleaning up and foot washing im a happy bunny
I confess to buying value chicken breasts (was getting through 4 a day with both cats so couldn't afford free range 
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Neko is eating value too
feel like an absolute heel but free range is too expensive for this sort of thing.
Riley in particular still had a runny bum while eating a pure chicken breast diet and it was only since I switched to RC sensitive that things firmed up completely. There's a Duck & Rice RC sensitive which was more popular than the RC sensitive chick pouches to begin with but now they are equally favoured although as the boys seem to have been fixed with a course of oral antibiotics I'm now weaning them back on to Bozita and their normal dry.
Neko is not at all fussy. in his first week he tried to steal a doughnut (wasnt mine honest)
My vet also suggested adding plain boiled rice to the chicken but Riley just picked round it 
As Neko is a grateful foster cat he might eat the rice if it's mixed in and it will help to bulk it out. I know that you would never compromise on care for finances alone but as chicken breast and the prescription foods are very expensive, if fed exclusively, I wonder whether it's worth trying a grain free food such as the one Teresa recommends? That said, I think once you start a particular food it's best to stick with it for a decent period of time to see if you can settle him down.
aye, it feels like a minefield- when to give up and try something new and when to stick with it and see? im sure Neko would eat the rice (hed have the plate if he could
) but if hes sensitive to cereals would rice still upset him?
Also, has your vet mentioned steroids at all? If he's being having diarrhoea for months before being rescued then his insides have got to be pretty inflamed/sore so maybe a steroid jab would calm the inflammation while you settle him down? The boys' faecal results came back negative but the vet put them on oral antibiotics, Metronidazole, and *touch wood* they both seem to have firmed up completely in conjunction with the sensitive food.
He's an absolute stunner btw 
she hasnt, ill ask when hes in for his next check up. tis a good point about the inflammed insides. he has to put on abit more weight before he can be neutered but last check up, vet said that if hes not settled down by then she wants to have a look while shes looking for his missing testicle
i can see her point but i worry. hes already had a course of antibiotics (before the scans)
hes not bad is he for a cat thats been appears to have been discarded as 'broken'
he is quite clumsy though and does seem to end up somewhere other than he meant to sometimes. it might be that this stomach is just how he is, in which case we'll find a way of dealing with it
