TARKA IS COMING HOME!!Kitten with "enlarged" bottom!! - anyone experienced this?

[LesleyW]

Have spoken to the Vet today to see how Tarka is doing.  He is on a drip and faecal samples have been sent off.  Put him on Pro-kolin but this is going straight through him so he has been put on antibiotics and they are applying cream to his bottom.

He is very bright in himself still and although they are starving him at the moment he is taking his lectade extremely well.

Nurses have fallen in love with him, despite the smell and he is still bright and bubbly.

He will stay in isolation for the time being, until samples come back (which could take a week) or until he starts to firm up and I can bring him home.  I hate to think of him in a room on his own but I know the nurses will fuss him as much as they can.

Will keep you up-dated.

[LesleyW]

Thanks Teresa.  Tarka and his brother and sister were abandoned at a day old but probably because mum was disturbed from a shed and the kittens were moved.  She came back and got one kitten but then never returned for these three and was never seen again.  Both Abby and Gibbs have always been fine and have recently been re-homed.

[Teresa Pawcats]

Lesley
I know its not neglect. I find myself wondering if maybe Tarka has been born with an abnormally small large intestine ; this would account for runny poop. Did mum abandon him? 
Keep hanging in there 

[Christine (Blip)]

I do hope Tarka's problems can be sorted out 

[Ela]

Thanks for info Ela - one final thing if you haven't gone yet, was the diarrhoea really smelly?

 
Very, often just a brown liquid. Of course so many similar symptoms and so many different diseases.  The results of the tests sent to the USA  will take at least 2 weeks.

[Gill (sneakiefeline)]

I hope all goes well for Tarka and the vet can sort him out 

[LesleyW]

Thanks for info Ela - one final thing if you haven't gone yet, was the diarrhoea really smelly?

[LesleyW]

Thanks for pic, Teresa - it does look a bit like that but I promise it is not due to neglect, he has been on every type of medication but we just cannot stop him having the runs.  Hopefully, his spell in hospital will be the turning point and they can discover the real cause of his problems.

[Teresa Pawcats]

Lesley have emailed the pic.
Sending lots of positive vibes to Tarka hes a little fighter

[Desley (booktigger)]

Will be thinking of him Lesley, I do hope something can be done for him.

[LesleyW]

Tarka has been to the Vet and has been kept in.  There are not two holes but his bottom is really swollen and they want to get poo samples, starve him and give him i/v fluids.  Not sure if the diarrhoea is causing the swelling or the sweling is causing the diarrhoea.

Teresa, I would be interested to see the photos, if you can e-mail them to me that would be great, 

Will let you know where there is more news, please send positive thoughts to my little man, I have raised him since he was one day old.

[Ela]

Ela, did Lily have a runny bum too, and did you find anything to sort that out or is that still ongoing?

All the time, funnily enough today when she was on the table with the specialist she did a little solid for the first time ever. They did a another ultrasound to check she had a  Pancreas and took more bloods which are to be sent to the USA for analysis. Only £470 plus £170 consultation fee which was £30 more than I thought. But we have to find out what is wrong with her we can't give up on her now.

[blackcat]

could be a prolapse, or, as T says it could simply be that the continual diarrhoea has caused thickening or possibly even haemarrhoids... Will be interested to hear what the vet says...

[Teresa Pawcats]

Lesley if he has had runny poo for so long it almost sounds like the anal tissue is thickened;I hope not.I have a pic of this but it is too unpleasant to post but can email it to you if you want. Keeping fingers crossed and sending positive vibes.

[Millys Mum]

Have you been to vets yet? Would be interested to know more!
Only thing i can think of is prolapse.

[LesleyW]

Ela, did Lily have a runny bum too, and did you find anything to sort that out or is that still ongoing?

[Ela]

We have Lily who is 4 months old who has problems that  sound similar to Tarkas probs. Lily  had every test the vet can think of. In fact this morning she has an appointment with a specialist from Manchester. £140 for consultation alone, still we need to try to find out what is wrong with her. Fortunately the specialist will take notice of all the tests that have been done already, some consultants want to start again.

[Dawn F]

Oh Lesley that sounds awful, no matter how much you love them that is pretty trying

[LesleyW]

I have to take Tarka to the Vets tonight.  He is now ten weeks old and has had runny poo most of his life.  Has been on antibiotics, lacto B, sensitive diet, etc but nothing has really worked.

The weird thing about him is that his "Bottom" seems extremely large and appears to have two holes!!  I do not know whether this is due to the diarrhoea or whether this is the cause of the diarrhoea and is a deformity. 

He is such a happy, playful little soul but has spent alot of his life in a pen because when he is free he just "leaks" all the time.  He has a dirty bottom and back legs all the time and now has a runny eye, which I think is due to all the cleaning he has to do round his rear end and his eye then getting dirty.  I am terrified that if it is a deformity that nothing will be able to be done for him and, though I HATE the thought of it, there may be no hope for him, as he cannot carry on as he is, it is not fair on him and he could never be re-homed and, though I am willing to clear up after him all the time, it is also not fair on the other cats or on OH.

Has anyone ever experienced anything like this?