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[-] Digestive_Biscuit@feddit.uk 5 points 2 months ago

A friend of mine had a cat which had kittens. It was a few weeks when he realised, after watching one try to take a dump and fail, it didn't have an opening for it's anus. He said it was bloated and abdomen was hard. The vet said they had only heard of this and never witnessed it themselves. Thing had to be put down.

[-] Frigidlollipop@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

It's often fixable if caught soon enough. Basically the affected creature gets ripped a new asshole under anasthesia.

[-] Digestive_Biscuit@feddit.uk 1 points 2 months ago

Yes the vet said it's probably treatable but she couldn't do it. She'd have to refer him to some other vet and it would have been insanely expensive.

[-] buddascrayon@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

99% of the time, a swollen hard belly on a kitten means it's infested with worms though.

[-] Digestive_Biscuit@feddit.uk 1 points 2 months ago

It is treatable, and financially? I don't know this is worse or better than what I said.

[-] otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 months ago

jesusfuck, man.

That's one of those anecdotes that you don't ever have to share again. Let it die.

[-] Drusas@fedia.io 1 points 2 months ago

Can happen to humans, too, but it's frowned upon to put those ones down.

[-] Damage@feddit.it 1 points 2 months ago

or worms

[-] FauxPseudo@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

I work with a lot of feral kittens. When I see a firm belly we start treating for worms immediately.

[-] EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com 0 points 2 months ago

Worms are bad, but I'm glad people are talking about that rather than FIP

[-] FauxPseudo@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

My area is blissfully free of FIP. FIV on the other hand.

This is Frasier. He and his brother were seven weeks old when they came in Niles was happily adopted about a week ago from a cat cafe. Frazier however tested positive for FIV. Two kids from the same mom that should have had pretty much identical life circumstances up to that point. We waited a month and tested them both again just to make sure there wasn't a false positive from was still carrying some antibodies from Mom.. still FIV. So it's taken us a bit of time to find a rescue adoption that will take an FIV+ kid. He is scheduled to leave in the middle of next month.

[-] aeiou@piefed.social 1 points 2 months ago

I'm thankful there's finally a treatment for that

[-] BedSharkPal@lemmy.ca -1 points 2 months ago

Is this one of those exploding kittens?

[-] Drusas@fedia.io -1 points 2 months ago

Not yet.

this post was submitted on 29 Jan 2026
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