Sunday morning I went in to take care of my fosters and I noticed one of
them was just laying in the bottom of the playpen and there was a lot of
bloody diarrhea in the litter box and vomit on the towels. Her temperature
was so low that she felt cool to the touch. Her two sisters, who share the
playpen with her, were and still are fine. This kitty had been fine the day
and night before and in fact had spent Saturday at the store for the
adoption day. This is a kitten who is about 12 - 14 wks old. We were told
that she was born outside under someone's porch. She was 8 wks old + before
someone brought her inside and was being kept in an unfinished basement
until I had foster space open up here and brought her home.

I got the ok to take her to the emergency vet. They tested her for FIV, FeLV
and Parvo and all were negative. She had been wormed a couple of weeks ago
and had gotten her first distemper shot 2 weeks ago. They ran a fecal and it
came back negative. They wormed her again anyway. They did an ultrasound and
didn't see anything that would indicate a blockage or foreign body in the
digestive tract. They put her on IV fluids and antibiotics but were only
giving me a 50/50 chance that she'd make it.

Her blood work results showed
NEU (2.50 - 12.40) HI at 14.37
HCT (30 - 45) LOW at 19.8
RBC (5 - 10) LOW at 3.99
HGB (9 - 15.1) LOW at 7

PCV/TS/BG Test showed
PCV (37 - 55%) LOW at 34
TS (5.3 - 7.8 mg/dl) LOW at 5

Albumin (2.6 - 3.9 g/%) LOW at 1
ALT (12 - 130 IU) HI at 181
Creat (.8 - 2.4 mg/dL) LOW at .4
TP (5.7 - 8.9 g/dL) LOW at 3.8

Monday I picked her up at the emergency vet and transported her directly to
the regular vet who has been keeping her on IV fluids etc. since. She was
more energetic than when I took her to the emergency vet but that was
probably as a result of being kept hydrated. She was too wobbly to stand up
but was moving around and shifting position. Sad state of affairs when
that's an improvement from just laying there limp. When I spoke to the vet
yesterday she said that the kitten had been able to maintain body
temperature overnight without the heating pad and they didn't think she had
been vomiting but was still passing a lot of very bloody diarrhea (frank
blood). I called
this morning and they said that she still has diarrhea. I have to call back
this afternoon and try to speak with the vet to get more detail.

Other than indicating bleeding in the lower intestine I'm not sure what this
all means or what could be causing it.

Any ideas?

Wendy