Thread: Sicky/Poop-y Problem?

Hi

Zack had terrible squirty problems as a kitten ( turned out it was in fact the kitten food) I used to wrap him in a towel - sit on the edge of the bath - unveil the offending back end and paws - wash that end with the top half still wrapped. Wear your oldest trackies for this as they get drenched!!!!! As soon as I changed to adult food it stopped. He had been to the vets and nothing sinister was ever detected.

Recently I got boris - a kitten - and completely forgot my past experience. You guessed it - Zack got into the kitten food and off we went again. I raced him to the vet and he had a temperature. He was put on tablets and ALL KITTEN FOOD ERADICATED FROM THE HOUSE. All back to normal again after that.

Maybe try changing food just in case??

It is unpleasant and my advice is to Dave is "get used to it". Whenever my boys - Leo has been almost perfect in this regard, the other two have issues - have a "sloppy" it's simply a case of grab cat, lock us in the toilet, half a sink of warm(er) water - remember their body temp is about 2C above ours -and pop the rear end in, clean with one hand while gentle holding down the other end, usually with front paws on the sink edge. Then the ready prepared "cat towel" on the top of the closed toilet and voila!

If it happens two poos in a row then it's time for white fish for 24-36 hours and all is well.

This has all been part of the food tuning regime. The Bozita tetra packs they love but result in "Dicky tummy" about once a week.

As far as the litter is concerned it's the same - finding a balance in depth and type that makes him happy to dig properly but not so much that he has to dig it our the tray. What kind of tray do you have ? Mine is a large covered "Omega Paw" but with the special rolling grill removed after it became too small. Also, you can get mats for in front of the tray to help litter (and poo) get dragged off the paws before they hit the real floor.

Go back to the basic rule if animal seems fine & happy starve for 24hours,water down only,fuel a fire & it won't go out,after 24 hours start introducing a light diet,fish or chicken after next 24hrs if all ok start slowly introducing normal food back,if still bad or seems to go off colour at any point get to the vets,especially if it is coming from both ends.It is always handy to have a product like Pro kolin in the "animal medicine chest",you can just buy it over the counter & is handy to have on standby for such cases,I use good old fashioned Kaogel,with the amount of cats in this house a bottle of that & dosing syringe are always kept to hand. A lot of the time biscuits can actually make things worse as they are heavy on the tum.
I would also agree with Heather about trying to go over onto adult food,kitten is very very rich & lets face things it hasn't been on the market that many years,going back to my first pup & kitten you had a choice of Chappie & Kitekat,that was it,one size fitted all.
As for litter trays we have always had deep ones filled at least half way up with litter,as we are having to replace them though we are getting the storage containers that you use in the home,lot better choice of depth,length,lot cheaper & lot easier to clean as well.
Sorry no sympathy for the other half he now knows how his mum most probaly felt cleaning up after him a few times as a babe,give me animal any day,smelly or otherwise...x

Have you seen the oven cleaning trays from Lakeland? I have thought about one but my two seem happy with their covered tray at the mo.

Just wait till Teddy honks up his first hair sausage (I refuse to call it a hair ball!) Dave will really get a shock lol!

How's Teddy? I've been worried about him. Hopefully all cleared up now. I think you should send Dave round all our coonies litter boxes for a while pmsl. More hugs to Teddy xxx

Thanks for all the advice - I really appreciate it.

Today we've not given him any wet food and just let him munch on his biscuits when he wants to. He's not been sick today and again he's been acting completely normally. Dave checked his tray for poop but we couldn't smell any (unlike the earlier poos which had Dave gagging) or see any in the tray.

We'll see what he's like tomorrow and we'll give him some wet food - if he's sick again then we'll assume it's the food. It's strange as he's never had any issues before. I'm convinced he managed to eat something he shouldn't have.

I'll keep you all updated!

I wanted us to have a covered

Just wait till Teddy is bigger, Hectors 'output' is bigger than my mates staffies!! and when he gets a runny bum yuk.

Catslave: Teddy's seeming alright, thanks for you concern! No more accidents since I posted the thread - we've given him a little wet food this morning so we'll see what happens. He's been running around like a mentalist because Dave actually left the flat for work this morning. Teddy's not used to that at all! He tried to sneak into the porch after him.

I have a feeling he could have drank some milk out of Dave's cereal - he's forever trying to do that and Dave's stupid enough to leave his bowl sitting on the counter while he gets juice or something. I'm not sure! Would that have made him ill?

I meant to finish that previous post with 'I wanted to get a covered littler tray but our breeder said Teddy would grow too big and would end up looking like a tortoise.'

Helen - oh god! Haha! A couple I've fished out so far were pretty big - a bit like what our KCS doggie would have done! I'll inform Dave that things are only going to get bigger!

Your OH is gunna have to get over it wait until he finds a furball under his bare feet in the middle of the night

Try and not let your OH stress out Teddy, cats are very easily stressed and being so upset by it all could of made him sick, Tabitha is an extremely stressy cat and if something upsets her she'll be sick, she also over grooms so gets a lot of furballs!

Cows milk could of upset his belly or made him sick, no animals should drink milk after weaning, Tabitha always tries to get at cereal bowls or ice cream and Jimmy tries to drink our glasses of squash at night.

Jimmy used to stand on poops when we first got him, we wiped his feet with baby wipes but it did leave a bit of a pong on him so he had to have a bath whenever he did it.