Thread: The runny loose stool & the quest for a solid poo fixed !

Hi all , i thought i would make a post for anyone who has been in the sinking ship we were in & hopefully be of some help to others .........

lil Willow became part of the family at 13 weeks of age at which point she was being fed royal canin 36 kitten dry food and her poo's were very soft & smelt like battery acid or a kind of chemical smell at which point we introduced the royal canin babycat 34 food in an attempt to maybe help as i thought it would be milder on her stomach ,i stuck with this food for 4 weeks but with no change in the poo consistancy her monthly worm treatment ended up with horrible pools of diahorea with slight blood in them ,to say this was very frightening is an understatment ,boiled chicken and rice on several occasions during the next couple of weeks & still trying to stick with the RC babycat introducing it again slowly was the plan ..during this time we went from loose stool's to constipation but had trouble reaching a happy medium :(

I tried introducing applaws dry grain free food which she turned her nose up at & the same with hills dry food ,i finally got her to eat james wellbeloved but the poo was still loose and runny and now we had a little blood back in the deposits ,she was full of beans and still putting on weight during these times but again was very worrying :(

At 17 weeks i started giving her forti-flora which didnt seem to make any difference and started using nutri-plus gel to at least backup any nutrients that she might of been lossing during this time ,again she was still very active and putting weight on ,daily weighing became my life :S

By now i was spending 6 hours a day reading post after post on forums to try and educate myself on feline diets ,have had moggies all my life who ate anything and everything with no problems what so ever ,so started to believe it was a sensitive stomach issue ,now during this time i was nieve and thought that dry food would be the better option and giving wet food would just make matters worse ,but after reading many many posts about wet food being possibly better for cats i took another trip to pets at home to buy some wet food ,the limited choice of anything "quality" wise came down to natures menu ........willow sniffed this and looked at me as if i had offered her a bowl of hedgehog testicles ,back to square one i thought and continued with james wellbeloved...:(

A trip to tesco for weekly shop and i threw a pouch of felix wet food in the trolly not feeling very optimistic about her eating it and also giving her what most people call junk food but was starting to feel like i would try anything at this point ....introduced a little taste to her , the result was i nearly lost a finger and gave her a little more each day increasing the ammounts slowly ,then bought a box of felix kitten as good as it looks ,and slowly removed any dry food from her diet ,she goes wild for felix i dont know what is in it but almost over night her poo started to get normal and the smell was almost pleasent if there is such a thing :P

I thought OK i've got a felix cat she is happy and we have normal poo's i can live with it if that is the food she likes ,a visit to zooplus website and an order of bozita & some kitten carny wet food ,again i thought she will hate this stuff ,oh how wrong i was ........... at this point i have a cat that won't stop eating if she hears a fork or knife strike a plate she will run into the kitchen bowling over anything in her way ,she will dance for food & lick the pattern off the plate when finished ,i am struggling to try and keep her from eating too much and at 19weeks could quite easily eat 500g+ of wet food a day if i let her

Last week she had her scheduled monthly wormer ,what a difference i was expecting runny stools at least and was prepared for diahorea ,but nothing her poo didnt change at all maybe went a little softer ,and no worms present which was nice also

Fair to say i will not be going back to dry food again ,i know that for most people it works fine and there cats thrive on it but for me it was nothing but problems, i now have a very very happy cat & the weight i had on my shoulders every day has now been lifted and the daily bottom baths or fights would be a better word have ended...

Anyhow i just thought i would share my story with others maybe visiting here with same problems as me ,this forum has been a wealth of help & knowledge for me & i felt like i should give something back to the community, many thanks to Jackie & candes ,howling bob etc

many thanks

Grace & Willow