Our kitty (16 weeks and a little over 3 lbs.) has had a bumpy start. After adopting him from a foster family, he was diagnosed with a URI and given Clavamox for his sneezing. He got progressively worse and a week or two later, we were told he had pneumonia and was spiking fevers and needed to be hospitalized for IV fluids and nebulizer treatments. Later that week, we were told that he was doing better, but the next day they said they suspected he had FIP and would need to be euthanized. Thankfully, we brought him home to spend a couple of days with us before they put him to sleep because he got better every day, with no fever and the only symptoms he had being diarrhea (2-3x/day) and signs of anemia (licking cement and trying to eat his clay litter.) We switched to newspaper based litter & his antibiotic was switched to Clindomycin and back to Clavamox. He was given Metronidazole for his diarreah, which only served to make it worse. Tests came back NEGATIVE for FIP, FIV, FeLV, Toxoplasmosis, and Bartonella. They said he was anemic and seemed to have liver issues/hepatitis. He is an indoor only kitty and has been treated for fleas and the vet *thinks* he was treated for heartworm and Giardia. (?) His current symptoms are the AWFUL diarrhea, trying to lick cement near the fireplace, and “butt dragging” like a dog with worms. His appetite and fluid intake is totally normal. The vet even had us change to a diet of canned venison or duck, suspecting a dietary intolerance, but there’s no change in the diarrhea. Anyone have any suggestions as to the possible cause or treatment? Our vet bill is in the thousands and we can’t afford to keep paying for what seems to be a guessing game. The only other thing suggested was a test for portosystemic liver shunt. HELP!

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I’ve got an an appointment to bring my pup to the vet in an hour, but I wanted to see if anyone has experienced this problem before. I know we’re going to pay up the *** to even find the problem as it is, and figured that if I had some guidelines to go by, this might be slightly less time consuming. The vet has not yet been able to find a problem, and this is our third visit in the past three weeks.
My four-year-old Border Collies has been pooping HUGE piles of diarrhea for about three weeks now. At first, the vet figured it was worms and we had her tested for both worms and giardia. The results were negative.
We then figured it might be the Nupro Hip/Joint Supplement we had startd feeding her last month, so we took her off it. Hip Supplements have made her sick before. This also did not work.
Yesterday, she had diarrhea in a kennel after I gave her a bath. Upon further inspected, I noticed the tiny traces of blood in the diarrhea. I immediately called the vet, and will be going to see them (once again) today.
My question is, what could possibly be causing this? I know tests for giardia can be a false negative, and my vet will probably recommend treating her for the parasite regardless of what the test said, but I am concerned that there is an underlying issue we are not seeing. She is fed Solid Gold Hund-N-Flocken, a food we have decided to change (probably to Wellness Core).
Does anyone recognize these symptoms? She isn’t showing any signs of being sick, other than abnormal amounts of feces.
I do think it is something she caught from a foster I had here. About a month ago, I had a mini Aussie with the same condition. After coming back negative in all of his tests, he was pooping a larger amount of blood than the Border Collies is. This was taken care of by the rescue, and I don’t know what came of the situation, but I can ask.
Both of these dogs were de-wormed before this occured.