Miss.Contessa's Trials...

[warmbear]

Good Morning everyone..

I am trying yet another tack with Miss.Contessa's unending watery stools.. Although she is a still technincally a kitten (she is not a year old yet), I am now trialing friskies "sliced" lamb & rice formulated for geriatric cats with digestive problems. I hope that this works, as I am running out of options here.

She eats this food somewhat oddly... She will go and lick-eat all the gravy and rice from the food, and then come back later and eat the "slices" of lamb. The good news is that she is keeping it all down (so far).. Now to just watch the litter boxes...

[jennielynn1970]

Is there a reason she is only eating wet food? Many times wet food is what give kittens and cats runny poops. Is there a dry food that you can try, that will enable the poops to firm up. Or boiled chicken and rice? Rice would help too. I'd definitely not feed wet food to an animal with chronic runny stool issues. I know we didn't give wet food to any of the kittens at the shelter if they had runny stools.

[Freedom]

Hmm, in addition, I'd worry that a growing kitten won't get the nutrition she needs from a senior formula.

What has the vet suggested?

Does she get treats? Those may also be the culprit.

I'm don't recall the history, sorry. Have you tried a better quality food, rather than a grocery store variety? Chicken Soup for the Cat Lover is a high quality food. You can find a place that carries it near you by going to their web site; you put in your zip code. Other high quality foods include Old Mother Hubbard, Fromm's, Canidae, and Merrick. any of these in the kibble form should work fine.

Let us know how she is doing!

[emily_the_spoiled]

There are a number of brands of wet and dry cat food available that do not contain corn, other fillers, or preservatives. When I took my guys off food with those ingredients the diarrhea (and vomiting cleared up almost completely)

Good luck!

[warmbear]

Obviously you missed my previous posts.

Miss.Contessa has always eaten dry food (until now). She has been tried on every concievable & ultra-expensive dry kitten food, and has constant water for stools since day one. She has been on antibitotics & probiotics... She has been on kitty kaeopectate. Nothing has worked.

She has been to the vet more times than I can count. She has never even had all of her kitten shots, because the vet is afraid to give them all to her, because of this chronic, ongoing problem.

She has not been altered, because the vet will not do it until her bowels get better. She was recently in heat for a few days (about a week).. She is undersized at less than 5 pounds (she was the runt of the litter of 7), although she seems to have attained her full growth (I think that this unending problem contributed to her lack of size because it causes a constant nutritional loss).

She does not eat treats, nor human foods. (She absolutely hates treats, and we never give her human food because of her problems)

[emily_the_spoiled]

Sorry about all of her problems. I found that the vet wanted me to switch to an (expensive) prescription cat food because one of my guys was diagnosed with irritable bowel syndrome. But removing those things from his diet seemed to really help. I eventually converted most of them over to a raw diet (and yes I make their food ), but if you just want to try a little before going that route the Evo brand by Innova was quite popular in my household

[warmbear]

We have already been the prescription food route.. It was a waste of money, as were the other ultra-expensive kitten foods the vet had us try. We have tried them all; Both at the vets, and at the pet shop as well. Each food has been given a month's trial (or more). She has a diagnosis of colitis, but that is just based on the symptoms, and her stool samples.

I am aware that the senior foods are not as nutritious as the kitten foods, but if the senior foods can stop this water for stools, she will be getting more nutrition from the senior food than she has been from the kitten foods with this problem.