My houseplants are wilted and the cockatiels are looking a bit wobbly on their perches. Here’s the deal. I went to the Animal Warehouse, a local PetZoo like pet store, for dog toys and something for my first cat.
Somehow, though I am NOT this sort of person, I found myself back by the ASPCA Adoption Day area. There was a kitten there. I don’t do impulse kittens. I planned for Maisie, my current cat, for a long time.
Okay, so somehow, I found myself with a new kitten (I still don’t really know how it all happened). She and her siblings had been left in a garage, alone. She is black, has cross eyes and a broken tail, at the tip (poor baby) it looks as if it got slammed in a door or something, but that part of her tail no longer works.
So, anyway, ASPCA rules are that you must get the kitten or puppy you choose spayed or neutered. Her appointment was for the day after I paid the adoption fee, and I wasn’t supposed to be able to get her for 2 days, unfortunately she had an upper respiratory infection and had to come home and get well first.
So now, I have nasty kitten-being-fed-antibiotics gas. At least I HOPE it’s the antibiotics. I’ve only had Maisie for 2 years, and she’s never been sick, and she’s my first cat. What I know about cats, I’ve only learned with Maisie, is kitten gas normal?
It sure is deadly but I hope this is antibiotic related (living with deadly cat gas won’t be fun). Anyone know?
Two of the cats who rule the Bodoni household get terrible gas if they drink too much milk. We limit their milk intake to no more than a spoonful a day because of this. Cat toots are unbelievably smelly, you have my sympathy. I have no real advice, other than to ask the vet if it’s OK to feed Kitty a tiny bit of plain, unsweetened yogurt for some probiotics.
I commiserate. My sweet kitty has the most rank smelling gas and I’ve often wondered how such a big stink can come out of such a small cat. He can clear a room, this cat. Worse than my ex-husband which was one of the reasons he’s an ex.
I swear I can see a green cloud of stink over him when he lets one go. I don’t dare even slightly pull his tail upwards…he always has one ready to go. I made the mistake of doing this once and didn’t think the “pppppppt” I heard would smell as bad as it did. And he sits there looking up at me with the sweetest, most innocent face you ever saw.
Well, it’s getting better lately. I’ve put him on a prescription diet from the vet for gastrointestinal problems. It’s helping somewhat but occasionally I see a green cloud that I avoid for at least an hour.
If your kitty’s gas doesn’t improve after he’s done his round of anti-biotics, check with your vet. He may have some sort of gastrointestinal upset.
Ha, I didn’t even think about my username in relation to this thread!
Well, I wouldn’t be able to take it either but this cat is the sweetest thing otherwise. And I do have the occasional laugh at him when he does this. Somehow I can tolerate stinky kitty gas better than stinky husband gas.
It can be rather embarrassing when I have company. They don’t believe me when I say “it was the cat! Really, it was the cat!”.
Definitely check with the vet about the yogurt. Has kitty’s diet been changed? That can also contribute to tummy problems/gas. Of course the darlin’ wee one should be on kitten food - the highest quality you can afford. I don’t envy you trying to keep the adult cat out of it, however!
Heh - Eddles and Dewey don’t have much gas, but sometimes when you pick up a kitty it squeezes one out of them or something. It’ll burn your nose hairs off. You have my sympathy indeed.
Our Mistresses learned to fart from a master. Now they will, on occasion, walk over to the computer, turn their backs, and let one rip right at my head. Revenge for the times they have been under the covers, nice and toasty, and had me dutch-oven them.
I think it is normal. Every kitten I’ve ever had has produced Farts of Mass Destruction. Not all of them have been sick and on medication and I always feed them a good quality kitten food. They eventually outgrow it. That usually occurs about the time they outgrow their need to snuggle up under you chin. Coincidence? I think not.
I think I’m just now growing back the nose hairs from my youngest’s kittenhood.
see now? I knew this was going to come up. I have a really good excuse though. I can’t find the interface for my digital camera. And then I thought, they’re not going to buy that one, because everyone’s phone has a camera these days.
Ummmm, as computer savvy as I usually am, I still haven’t figured out how to actually post pics here on the dope.
I adopted a sick kitten last summer and he was on antibiotics for weeks (severe upper respiratory infection). His farts were monumental and filled the entire house; though he’s still Mr. Farty Paws, I don’t have to run outside and gasp for air like I did when the farts were clavomoxin-flavored.
I think you have been given good advice about giving the kitten diluted yogurt or something similar. But I do want to add, just given the kitten’s history, that if kitty also has the runs, get her straight back to the vet and say the word “giardia”. The smell is characteristic. It’s curable but really very infectious. A lot of animals carry it around in their gut and it doesn’t bother them; but the ones it bothers, it really makes sick.
Havoc is 2 now and still hasn’t outgrown it! Nothing like having a 12 lb. cat climb up on your chest and flop down on your face, still thinking she’s a little kitten.
The farts did go away though…mostly.
