Still having diarrhea

[Jessika]

May I ask you what is your concern about Hills Science Diet w/d and what your concern about cornmeal in the diet?

Corn is generally the #1 ingredient used as a filler in most pet foods. Corn is not easily digestable and goes straight in and comes right back out as nice little packages on your front lawn.

[lv4dogs]

May I ask you what is your concern about Hills Science Diet w/d and what your concern about cornmeal in the diet?

I ask because my Cleo had Hills feline w/d for quite some time due to loose stools and did very well on it. Colette has fared very well on Hills Hairball formula too just recently. In fact when I ran out of it she chucked up again

Thanks for your input, we all want to do what is best for our furkids.

Now Cleo is on Walthams renal due to age and early renal failure.

Colette has some of that (or she'll steal Cleo's) and Hills furball.

I'd be interested to know what your concern is with the w/d and cornmeal, thanks.

My concern about the w/d is that it is a weight management formula (w=weight, d=diet). My cats like I metioned before are on the slim side (healthy but slim) & to put them on a weight reducer diet is just asking for more trouble.
Sure the amount of fiber in it would probably be great for diarrhea problems but the fact that it has low sources of protein, fat & carbs is not good for my cats.

And my problem with corn, any corn products is just that, it's corn. Have you ever looked at your feces after eating corn? It looks the same when it comes out as it did when it went in. Gross but true. Corn is a filler, it has no nutritional value. It's useless.

Science diet has other fillers too. Too many for my preferences.

[Bonny]

I have been having problems with my out door cats also with diarrhea. I got some cleared up & used Pepto Bismol but I have one kitten that keeps spreading the diarrhea. Anyhow I think she is the one spreading it. I plan to try yougart on her next. I wonder if there is some kind of bug going around causing the cats to get the diarrhea. Someone dumped off a stray kitten & it started up after she was here. The stray kitten does not have the diarrhea though but maybe she is the carrier that brought the bug here. I plan to call our veterinary tomorrow & see what else we can do. They eat purina dry cat food & don't get table scrapes & clean fresh water everyday.