TooFar McGee
Member Since 2025
Hey y'all. I didn't know quite where else to ask this, and there are so many really knowledgeable folks here with so much experience, I figured this was good a' place as any.
I've seen a lot of things in my life, but nothing quite like this. Pertinent health history in signature... Just started on S.Boullardi for not-super-frequent-but-still-pretty-loose poops. Was on Visbiome flavored with fortiflora, then moved to Proviable DC when I ran out of Visbiome. When the vet gave us cans of "sensitive stomach" food allergy Hills food and we had a little bit of time where I had to syringe feed, he had huge, copious blowouts. I cut that stuff out and he's back to just his dry food (I know, I am working toward transitioning away from it, but I wanted to go back to his 'last known good' for his sake) and I'm crushing a little bit of freeze dried rabbit over his food, which he seems to LOVE.
BUT
these loose poops, though.
They're weird. He's eating well with Cerenia and Mirataz, drinking well, the poops have no visible sign of blood or anything suspect, but... they're darn near odorless. At MOST they smell very mildly vinegary, like apple cider vinegar. This has come out in my favor when he's stepped in it or dragged his tail in it and jumped up in my lap for cuddles. (Thanks bro, I love you, too.)
But... what IS this? The poop is yellow, stains, but doesn't smell particularly bilious (I moonlight in endoscopy and am pretty well acquainted with the look/smell/texture of human bile) piles are kinda cow patty-esque (like a 6ish on the Bristol stool chart?) and thankfully with a lot less gas than before. Gut sounds seem normal (or more normal) to me. Still trying to get numbers under better control, but it feels unnecessarily difficult on his old higher-carb diet.
We ARE backing off his prednisolone. He was on 7.5mg/day for bowel inflammation. We cut to 5 for 5 days, now 2.5. On Tues, planning on 2.5 every other day. I'm not really sure that this has had much of an impact because prior to his dx and all he wasn't eating very much at all, but those poops were more soft-serve.
Vet is suggesting flagyl, but I wanted to run all this by the incredible kitty collective here as well.
Thanks for sh*t talkin' with me here!
...sorry I couldn't resist. lol
I've seen a lot of things in my life, but nothing quite like this. Pertinent health history in signature... Just started on S.Boullardi for not-super-frequent-but-still-pretty-loose poops. Was on Visbiome flavored with fortiflora, then moved to Proviable DC when I ran out of Visbiome. When the vet gave us cans of "sensitive stomach" food allergy Hills food and we had a little bit of time where I had to syringe feed, he had huge, copious blowouts. I cut that stuff out and he's back to just his dry food (I know, I am working toward transitioning away from it, but I wanted to go back to his 'last known good' for his sake) and I'm crushing a little bit of freeze dried rabbit over his food, which he seems to LOVE.
BUT
these loose poops, though.
They're weird. He's eating well with Cerenia and Mirataz, drinking well, the poops have no visible sign of blood or anything suspect, but... they're darn near odorless. At MOST they smell very mildly vinegary, like apple cider vinegar. This has come out in my favor when he's stepped in it or dragged his tail in it and jumped up in my lap for cuddles. (Thanks bro, I love you, too.)
But... what IS this? The poop is yellow, stains, but doesn't smell particularly bilious (I moonlight in endoscopy and am pretty well acquainted with the look/smell/texture of human bile) piles are kinda cow patty-esque (like a 6ish on the Bristol stool chart?) and thankfully with a lot less gas than before. Gut sounds seem normal (or more normal) to me. Still trying to get numbers under better control, but it feels unnecessarily difficult on his old higher-carb diet.
We ARE backing off his prednisolone. He was on 7.5mg/day for bowel inflammation. We cut to 5 for 5 days, now 2.5. On Tues, planning on 2.5 every other day. I'm not really sure that this has had much of an impact because prior to his dx and all he wasn't eating very much at all, but those poops were more soft-serve.
Vet is suggesting flagyl, but I wanted to run all this by the incredible kitty collective here as well.
Thanks for sh*t talkin' with me here!
...sorry I couldn't resist. lol
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