Kitty not well yet, maybe not even improved

[cjsmith]

Unfortunately, jackiecat is pooping fresh blood again. There's some fecal matter, but mostly it's intestinal mucous and blood.

She vomited again, too, but there's no blood there this time, thank goodness.

She hasn't passed any of the hairballs that were blocking her this past weekend. She does have SOME fecal matter exiting, but overall, this is Not Good.

Managed to give her one of the enormous antibiotic capsules by coating it in butter and hanging on to her for dear life until she finally gave up and swallowed. I am amazed that thing went down. Poor fuzzball!

Another unfortunate thing: Jackie doesn't like Petromalt. (Well, laxatone.) Fortunately Duchess will eat it. Duchess has even more hair than Jackie does, so preventative measures there are a good idea. I wish Jackie liked it, though. She needs it badly right now.

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[mactavish.livejournal.com]

Is surgery out of the question? (I'm not sure what it would fix in the long term, though.)

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

If I bring her in to my regular vet he may recommend it at this point. Not sure. Any surgery where they open up the intestines is pretty drastic, so he might say it's still better to wait. I'll phone him and ask.

You're right, in the long term it wouldn't help; it would solve the acute situation and then I'd have to do other things to help it not happen again. I could shave her periodically or something. ;-) And definitely smear Petromalt (intestinal lube, basically) on her so she has to lick it off.