Last vet visit for Pigeon today consisted of x-rays and an enema when the films revealed that this cat hasn’t had a proper bowel movement in weeks. He has now- thankfully and along with his diet change I am to add a substantial amount of canned pumpkin daily for him to keep things moving. They found small rodent bones in his waste so he ate something that was bigger than he should have eaten and it bound him up.
I did look online for canned cat food with pumpkin, but most of it is prohibitively expensive and mixed with chicken which the vet suspects Pigeon can’t digest properly. So canned pumpkin it will be- assist fed three times a day 3 ml per feeding. Hoping this turns the trick for him and he will be feeling more like himself soon. I was stunned at the amount of waste in his stomach and his intestines as he isn’t eating all that much- although he has gained half a pound since his last visit. That’s better than his 4 pound weight loss in 6 days that he was experiencing before and as I said of his outdoor life, it is over. I just have to be sure he is locked up any time I am opening the doors because he is sneaky and quick and he wants outside badly. But thank God, it all came out in the end!
That is good news, especially in the ‘end’. But why was his waste such viscous stuff and looking quite unlike it should?
He ate something he found lying on the ground and it impacted him is the educated guess from the experts. I am watching him carefully and will take him back in a week to have x-rays done on him again to be sure that it was just gunk plugging him up and not something hereditary. If he gets plugged again then they will have to open him up to find out why. Hoping that won’t happen
Pigeon was too full of poop! Glad he’s over that! When we used to add pumpkin to Chucky’s food, we purchased organic pumpkin, not pumpkin pie filling! And, during this time of year, it’s on sale a lot, so stock up if you can! In fact, we just stirred it into his and Angel’s food; they ate it without a problem.