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Explosive! [a cat shit story]
bowen
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So my cat is explosively shitting again. And he refuses to use the litter box. I've taken him to the vet, and am following up tomorrow, but, it seems both the high fiber food, the deworming pill, the antibiotics and the gut flora additives haven't worked.
What else could possibly be the problem? Any ideas? It doesn't appear to be any blood in the crap, but, it has taken a slightly different form after the finishing of the medication, ie, really squishy but more solid than before (where it was almost liquid), but really smelly (I'm assuming it's the high fiber food and gut flora that are the cause of this).
Is he likely to improve in the next few days? Is there anything else I should try? I've changed litters, foods, litterbox's shape/size/color, separating him from the other cats.
What else could possibly be the problem? Any ideas? It doesn't appear to be any blood in the crap, but, it has taken a slightly different form after the finishing of the medication, ie, really squishy but more solid than before (where it was almost liquid), but really smelly (I'm assuming it's the high fiber food and gut flora that are the cause of this).
Is he likely to improve in the next few days? Is there anything else I should try? I've changed litters, foods, litterbox's shape/size/color, separating him from the other cats.
not a doctor, not a lawyer, examples I use may not be fully researched so don't take out of context plz, don't @ me
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http://dry-cat-food.findthebest.com/d/d/Gluten-Free
He's eating non kibble food at the moment and still having the issue, food straight from the vet to be anti-gluten. Some sort of high fiber wet food, forgot the specific brand off the top of my head.
He seems to be a bit better now with going in the litterbox but specifically requires an upstairs litterbox now, whereas before we've been working fine for 2 years with a downstairs one.
But I don't like the smell of liter upstairs, agitates my sinuses while I'm sleeping and I wake up all congested and stuffed.
I hate cats.
What's worse is he sniffs all over the place to find his litter box, but he goes downstairs to pee, but when he's got to shit, if there isn't one upstairs he shits on the floor in the corner.
I just can't think of why he's doing this.
Let's figure this out before Magic Pink regales us with a childhood story!
I thought that too. He'll gladly sniff around the room, go up then downstairs again, look at the litter box, then go back upstairs and shit.
Naw, he's not doing it to be mean; I can guarantee that. He may have some mild blockage that causes pain or discomfort when he poops so he's associating that pain with the litter box.
Maybe he associates the pain with downstairs only I guess. That would suck. Vet didn't feel anything, but she didn't want to do any imaging on him yet and tried the meds first.
LA LA LA NOT LISTENING!!!
He hates anything but this.
PSN:Furlion
We got a new kitten in August. Our older cat is 7 and she was eating fancy feast for years all wet food no problem.
We got him kitten food and he had really bad diarrhea for months(using the litter box at least but stinking up the house). Had him checked for worms, brought stool samples and he just had a sensitive stomach. We tried all kinds of different foods:
Science Diet
Blue Buffalo
Fancy Feast
Etc..
We tried various types of sensitive stomach foods of those brands as well. Finally through some googling we found out that some cats actually have incredibly sensitive stomachs in regards to grains. So we found grain free food from amazon.
Pinnacle is the brand we got: http://www.pinnaclepet.com/Feline/index.htm
A few days after eating that his bowl movements became more and more normal and now he's totally fine.
It's kind of expensive so we switched to a new brand this past week called Merrick - Before Grain (still expensive but cheaper at least)
http://www.merrickpetcare.com/consumer/products/list.jsp?cat1=3&cat2=10&categories=Cat-Before-Grain
He can eat the wet and dry versions of grain free foods. We also switched our older cat to it as well and she likes it just fine. So far he has been fine on the new Merrick food as well.
Good luck!
It's not terribly expensive, but I'm open to something cheaper that anyone has had good success with.
It's cheap... $30 for 100cc bottle, my cat gets 1/4 cc/week currently and the time between injections will increase.
No idea how he got it, none of the other cats were affected and all share the same food and water. Plus I'm on city water.
If the antiobiotics are making an improvement for you, that may be all there is to it, though.
Did not help at all.
For the record, they make an unscented version of this particular litter now. It's the type I use after switching from Schweat Scoop. I have allergies myself, and it doesn't seem to bother me.