Oh dear where to start...

I'll try to make this short, but if my post turns into an essay, forgive me.

I have 2 Bengal cats, Penny who is one and a half years old (posted pics of her a long time ago in the pic section) and Ninja who is 5 months old. I brought Ninja home a month ago, awesome little guy, super cuddly, Penny loves him, joy in our house. Penny has had a longstanding history of diarrhea, vomiting, at some point she had fluids around her lungs, but the vet tested and tested and tested and she is fine. She is a terribly stressed out cat and we still don't know why, we are doing our best for her to be relaxed and happy but it seems to be in her temperament. After finding the right food for her, her vomiting/diarrhea problems stopped.

Ninja (the new younger cat) on the other hand is having diarrhea, and I thought that maybe he was stressed out being in a new house, with a cat he doesn't know, and the food change and all. After a couple days, the diarrhea turned into a more severe mode, where he was going 5 to 6 times a day and was pooing yellow liquid every time. (sorry for the graphic description). The vet tried Metronidazole (I am still having nightmares about trying to give that to him), and after a week she said, we will test for tritrichomoas Feotus cause this is ridiculous and the diarrhea has to stop. They ordered a PCR test and asked me if I wanted the one only for TF or the one for TF and 4-5 other parasites. I chose the big one, better safe then sorry. The vet called me tonight. SURPRISE, your cat has the coronavirus and No TF (YAY for no TF). Right away I started panicking, thinking of FIP.

I am just wondering, I know the vet told me NOT to panic about FIP, that it doesn't always mutate into it. Right now Ninja is at the vet being treated, with some medication, to try and get the diarrhea to subside because he was unable to resolve it himself. I am thinking that Penny might have had that virus for a long time and could have passed it on to the kitten. I am wondering if this is why Penny had some fluids around her lungs this summer... I mean she is right in that age for FIP no?

Does anyone has any experience with corona virus? I am really trying to stay calm about this, but to be honest, I am failing miserably.

Hiya,

Do not panic re Corona Virus - most cats will test positive and virtually all will have been exposed to it.
Your vet should be aware that trying to determine a Corona count is pretty fruitless - often most vets will see the count and on the whole disregard it because it is so common.

Aswell as TF & Corona do you know what was included in the panel?

You need to know what bacterias and parasites were tested for.
The main ones are Salmonella, Ecoli, Campylobacter, Clostridium perfringens, Cryptosporidium, Giardia , Panleuk aswell as TF - was your TF done by PCR testing?

Hi, Thank you for your reply.

Tf was tested by PCR testing yes. It came back negative. The vet took the samples (3 I think) and sent it over to the lab. We made sure the cat had not had any medication in the last 2 weeks.

I believe she said something about Cryptosporidium also, and said that the count was very high but that it usually lives in the cat's intestines and will multiply when there is inflammation and will shed through feces and cause diarrhea. Although I could be mistaken about the name but he had something else that was treatable on top of coronavirus. That all happened yesterday on the phone and the vet should call me back today again with an update as to when I can go and pick up Ninja, depending on if he takes the meds easily or not :)
The vet also said that this can be passed on to humans so wash my hands after handling the litter, nothing new there.

This sounds like campylobacter to me.

Was told to be really on top on the hygiene, disinfected everything, wash hands after stroking them etc, deep clean EVERYTHING around them and wear gloves and apron when dealing with litter. I was told not to allow anyone with a weakened immune system in the house, including pregnant people and so forth.

Luckily though, we managed to clear it from the house within 2 weeks of treating it. Still to this day, I'd love to know where daisy got it from.

The yellow foul smelling diahorrea has finally gone, and hopefully will never return :)