Thread: Maine Coon not putting on weight

Cant believe that they are taking no responsibility for not having Marthas records - as Jackie says they should ensure they have everything they need for a consult and should have contacted your vet if they didnt - there is no excuse they could have even done it that day as with email and fax these things can be quickly resolved, failing that they should be offering you, as their client , some recompense - after all in the vet industry reputation is everthing - and now we on the forum would be wary of being referred there.
Having said that the important thing is that your fur baby is feeling better , if she is still perky and bright a few days of chill time for you all may not be a bad thing ... hugs to you all.

Hi All,

Hope you had a good xmas and new year. Martha has been doing great up until about a week ago when the smelly yellow poops started to return.

Her stools are now back to square one how odd. We've changed vets and we are waiting to settle up with out previous vets and to get the records to our new vets.

Strange how she got better on the metronidazole, I still think it might be a persistant Giardia infection, why else would it have cleared up?

She is now 2.5 kilos before eating, so she is nearly twice the cat she was, but we have to be ever so careful not to go backwards here.

Been waiting for an update was getting worried, would the vets not let you have a longer course of Metronidazole,I know all drugs can have side effects but at the moment weighing up both sides of Marthas problems it seems the lesser side to worry about than having the awful stools back again.

Hiya, well we gave a home to a 7 month old Siamese over xmas that needed to be homed too, he's such a loving little chap but very noisy bless him (and a total purr machine). It seems Martha's problem has now been transfered to him 'eek'. He's started to get yellow loose poops. We really thought she was on the mend and 'seemed' to be fixed just before we got him, as I said she is nearly twice the weight and playing, had normal poops and was much better.

I got them both straight into the new vets and explained the situation, we got metronidazole for both of them and pro-kolon as well. Poor little chap now I feel bad that we are doing our cats more harm than good! They are both playing though and happy, and enjoy sleeping on us (I just keep waking up at night checking them and cleaning the trays of poop!). I've also got some meds to treat our outdoor cat in case.

I'll post up some pictures soon when I get chance.

I think perhaps she was nearly cured, but still had some cysts in her that had not developed. I think it's the only answer as they kept sharing each others food, even though we have been trying very hard to keep them eating their own and have been strict with our hygene.

Fingers crossed!

And here she is, along with her new friend who loves laying near the fire or jumping onto our doors!

She is looking a lot better in the photos. And the Siamese boy is very handsome, I've never seen a cat walk across the top of a door before! Hope the meds help both cats now.

Originally Posted by brightlight23

She is looking a lot better in the photos. And the Siamese boy is very handsome, I've never seen a cat walk across the top of a door before! Hope the meds help both cats now.

A quick image search on google found me an "article" on this page - scroll down half way past the real estate stuff - does the breed look familiar ?

http://www.inspirationline.com/EZINE/27SEP2004.htm

Thanks Brightlight and that is funny Peter!

He loves getting up on the door which got us really worried when we were out, but we couldn't shut them in one room, and after getting him down from there many times he showed us he's fine to jump off of it! Quite an agile cat bless him.

They are both totally happy, playing, acting normal and gaining weight, poops seem to be firming up already after the metronidazole and pro-kolon so I think we should be ok

She's looking far more sturdy quass. I hope she is on the up and up.

I have the same problem with Jock. 2 steps forward and then one back. At least it's that way round now. His poops were fine for 2 or 3 weeks then for no rhyme nor reason he became loose again but (only) for a couple of days and is firming up again. Him and his sister at 7 months have reached the grand weight of 2.9 kg whilst the other brother is 4.5 kg. It's unfathomable and I am no where near the levels of worry I had especially since they now all have whiskers