Thread: Probably should have posted in "diet & nutrition" but hey ho...poop problem!

Hi Tracey,
Taking it that Neo has been fully wormed especially coming from thet type of background the one thing i would say before trying anything else is to get your vet to have a poo sample sent off & checked especially as he obviously came from a not particular good breeder, worth it to rule out any nasties in his gut .....x

Hello! Thanks for your reply; yes, he's wormed up to date - vet prescribed wormer. I'll get him to the vet next week, and I'll take a poop sample with me so I can impress the vet by pre-empting him/her!

I am sure the vet will be very impressed with your forward thinking.....x

Just a quick thought - your older cat with the tatty coat, thin but hungry - have you had his thyroid function checked out? Sounds like a perfect description of our old moggy. There are treatments that are useful as a dodgy thyroid can be rather serious.

Our MC Sidney has a very delicate constitution but we have had great success with Orijen dry food. As long as he doesn't have anything else, all us well. A week ago he was making the most dreadful smells... We discovered half a blackbird in the garden shortly after!

Originally Posted by Weasel

Just a quick thought - your older cat with the tatty coat, thin but hungry - have you had his thyroid function checked out? Sounds like a perfect description of our old moggy. There are treatments that are useful as a dodgy thyroid can be rather serious.

Our MC Sidney has a very delicate constitution but we have had great success with Orijen dry food. As long as he doesn't have anything else, all us well. A week ago he was making the most dreadful smells... We discovered half a blackbird in the garden shortly after!

Hi there. Actually, I was talking to my friend yesterday about the old tatty boy, Gizmo, and she said her own golden oldie had been diagnosed with thyroid problems causing exactly the same symptoms. So it's off to the vets with Gizzy Whizzy!

We've experienced similar frustration with Sterling. The first vet gave her a de-wormer, which did nothing. Then they sold us some Hills Science Diet dry food, which did nothing. The next step was £300 worth of allergy tests, so I switched vets to get a second opinion. Right away they took blood for a blood test, gave her an antibiotic and steroids. The steroids did the trick.
I don't love keeping her on pills, but they're just tiny things (and I only give her half of one a day) and she's been so much happier and healthier. There were a couple days where she was just sitting curled up in the corner for hours and I thought she'd died, and not having those worries is so nice. She's a healthy weight, her poos are perfect, and baths are kept to a minimum.

I hope you find a solution you're happy with; it's a very frustrating problem!

Originally Posted by Weasel

Our MC Sidney has a very delicate constitution but we have had great success with Orijen dry food. As long as he doesn't have anything else, all us well. A week ago he was making the most dreadful smells... We discovered half a blackbird in the garden shortly after!

Typical! Armageddon in the litter tray today - I think it was mouse this time. Well, he stuffed a live mouse up my pyjama top at 3.30 am the night before... I sent them both out to "play". Probably a dim thing to do, but, hey, it was the middle of the night and I wasn't thinking straight! Sid came in at 8pm, so I dread to think what he'd done with the mouse in the meantime!

Originally Posted by Weasel

Sid came in at 8pm, so I dread to think what he'd done with the mouse in the meantime!

PLAYED! as instructed! ;-)

Hi teejay, poor Neo and poor you. Sound like you have a right dilemma there.

From my knowledge ( having a very mucky Weimaraner once upon a time) I can offer the following advice.

Get to the vet (again) with your poo sample and get them to run a Bacti culture for Salmonella Clostridium Campylobacter, as well as check for parasite burden. However My feeling is you are dealing with a case of inflammatory bowl disease. Then it's about controlling the diet unless you want to go down the steroid route.

When controlling the diet your going to need to separate Neo from the rest of the troops at feeding time. Basically stop him from eating any of their food. I know you've had trouble getting him on to raw food, but it is a really good bet at calming the inflammation down. If you can get hold of natural instincts then try that. As Neo is a bit fussy you'll need to change him over gradually by adding a tea spoon of the new raw food with his current food over the period of one to two weeks. Keep him on pure raw food and don't introduce anything else for two weeks after the cross over period. If the new diet works, you'll be seeing improvements by then.


I have seen this type of treatment work on 5 different breeds of dogs and 4 cats (including my own pets).. Granted, not many, but every time some one has tried it it worked for their pet. The trick is to do it slowly, to stick with it a while during the acclimation period, and to stop access to other food types. Make sure you get a cat approved raw food so you get the correct ratios of meat, bone, offal etc. if you don't want to go down the raw diet then get a grain free high protein food. I hope you and Neo find a solution xx

Originally Posted by Alekto

PLAYED! as instructed! ;-)

I have it on good authority that the mouse was stuffed inside the lining of the hall curtain...
Why am I even considering a kitten?