Sunny's Doing Well & Pearl's Now Doing Much Better!!!:Latest SKY Update 6-17-09

[Felicia's Mom]

I'm sorry to know that Sunny hasn't been feeling well. Sending him lots of positive vibes!

[allmycats]

how old is he? here's hoping he is his old self again very soon.
please post an update soon. I'm sure he will be well again soon!

[Medusa]

And how is our Sunny today?

[cassiesmom]

Prayers and a candle lit for Sunny

[krazyaboutkatz]

how old is he? here's hoping he is his old self again very soon.
please post an update soon. I'm sure he will be well again soon!

He'll be 9 years old on Aug.25th but up until a few weeks ago he was still acting like a 2 year old. He's an Aby mix which makes him a very high energy cat.

And how is our Sunny today?

He's doing a lot better but he's still not running around playing like he used to. Pearl and Ziggy are really missing their playmate. I still think that he's afraid to run around because Starr was after him. He's a very sensitive cat.

Prayers and a candle lit for Sunny

Thanks so much. His appointment is tomorrow at 7am so I'll be able to update everyone once I'm home. I sure hope that his kidneys are fine.

[krazyaboutkatz]

I thought that Pearl's stools were under control but I found out that tonight she's still having liquid diarrhea. While she was on the medicine, she seemed to be getting better. After she finished her medicine, I started giving her Primal Defense Powder mixed in canned food but this caused some loose stools so I tried some baby food. Then this caused liquid diarrhea so I stopped this on Tues. She was still having issues so I fasted her for about 14 hours from Thurs. evening around 7pm to Fri. morning around 9am. I then only gave her a little bit of dry Innova Evo and she seemed to be doing better.

Today I gave her a little more Innova Evo but not as much as I usually do. Tonight she had more liquid diarrhea. I e-mailed and also left a voice mail with my vet asking her what I should do next. She works tomorrow from 7am-5pm so hopefully I'll here from her then. Pearl's last stool test came back negative so now I fear that she may also have a form of IBD or even colitis. I have plenty of prednisolone to give her if my vet feels that this will help her. I hate giving this to her but if it'll help calm her tummy down then I may have to. Please send some good vibes to Pearl. Thanks.

[Pinot's Mom]

I'm sorry the poo trouble continues. As you probably read, Pinot just went through an issue with loose stool (NOT diarrhea). We found that adding water to her dry food was one of the curatives and made her much happier. I don't know if this will help, but just a thought....

[krazyaboutkatz]

I wish it was that easy. It seems that by giving her any form of wet food seems to make her worse. Now since her tummy is still upset, even the dry food is causing her to have liquid diarrhea. My vet agreed that putting her on pred for week may help. I'll then talk with my vet in 1 week and we'll see how to go from there. Hopefully she won't have to continue being on the pred because this causes cats to gain a lot of weight because they drink a lot. My Starr is already on it and has to be for life for his IBD/Colitis problems and he's gained a lot of weight so now he can barely clean his own bottom.

[ChrisH]

Poor Pearl, and poor you too. Prayers and positive thoughts on the way.

[krazyaboutkatz]

Sky's stool test came back normal which is great news. My vet didn't even charge me the $150 for the test. I spent more than enough today on Ziggy's bill.

Now I'm to give Sky 5mg of pred once a day for the next 4 days to see if this will help firm up his stools. Then I need to e-mail my vet to let her know if it's helping him or not. If not then I don't know what we'll do next. The Fortiflora helped Pearl but it made Sky sick so I can't use this on Sky. I just want him to get back to normal again.