On Sat, 19 Mar 2005 21:51:05 -0500, "Kelly" wrote:


Does anyone have any ideas as to what could be causing his hard, bloated
belly???


There's a couple of things that you haven't mentioned. The
biggest and scariest is of course, FIP. There's no good test for FIP,
unfortunately.
The other thing (and this is what it was for my cat) is a food
allergy. He developed one (we still don't know to what) and got very
bloated and hard and then tried to scratch his face off. The face
scratching was the final clue to the food allergy possilbility. We
put him on IVD rabbit and green pea and within a week he'd stopped
scratching and his tummy had gone down to totally normal. Food
allergies can cause belly distension because they're not digesting the
allergen properly, thereby overfilling their intestines.




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