Thread: giardia!
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Old Mar 09, 2008, 08:42 PM
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so about a month ago i noticed blood in my cat's stool. (we have 3 cats and a dog). we took a sample to the vet and they didnt find any parasites. we tried changing their food. we tried changing their litter. we gave her special soft food. we tried everything! and 3 weeks later it was bloodier than ever.

so i took another sample into the vets and they found giardia. we have to give all our pets medicine for it since they said if one has it, they probably all have it. and i can get it too!

i had to sanitize their rug that the litter boxes sit on. i had to completely empty out their boxes, lysol it down in the bathtub and scrub them and vacuum all around their litter boxes and then spray arm and hammer pet stuff on the floor. we also vacuumed the entire house like twice and washed everything.

hopefully this gets rid of it because i dont want to spend another 90 bucks at the vet on parasite medication.

i am glad that it was a parasite though. cause if it wasnt we would have had to do x-rays and all kinds of tests. i guess she said the reason it didnt show up the first time is because the eggs hadnt started shedding yet so it didnt show up on the fecal float. silly pets. they get sick 10 times more than we do! lol. but theyre my babies