06/06/2026
Happy Caturday from Luna and a possible light at the end of the tunnel ❤️
Luna came to us around one year ago; she was originally adopted from a hoarding situation, needed an emergency vet within 24 hours for dehydration and has suffered chronic diarrhoea from day one.
When the owners couldn't cope any longer she came to us.
We also have a second cat Honey, a Ragdoll bought from a breeder, with exactly the same problem.
They've cost us many hundreds of pounds in investigations and treatments:
Thorough blood work including B12 and folate, and TLI to
rule out exocrine pancreatic insufficiency.
Urine samples.
Multiple faecal samples and colonic washes for tritrichomonas.
Abdominal ultrasound where there were no obvious physical changes to their intestine.
We've tried steroids, metronidazole, various probiotics and multiple
different gastro intestinal or hypoallergenic diets, even anallergenic.
Nothing has helped at all :(
Recently we sent poo samples to a lab in Texas that measures 7 beneficial bacteria that should be found in a healthy cat's gut. Luna's results show she's lacking in these "good" bacteria which wasn't a surprise at all (we're still awaiting Honey's results) and that she's now a candidate for faecal transplantation from a cat with a normal gut biome.
This has a high rate of success and is her Hail Mary - there really is nothing left to try for her (or Honey) - the diarrhoea is beginning to impact their quality of life and they're both only youngsters at 2 yrs old.
We're just waiting for the call from Langford and we'll be whisking her in and keeping everything crossed, closely followed by Honey hopefully!
