One of Our Cat's Has Blood in It's Poo

[Catlady711]

Not to minimize the possible seriousness of bloody diarrhea, however it is possible a bad reaction to a food change, in this case to adult food, could possibly cause this.

While any diarrhea is dangerous because of dehydration and underlying problems, we had one of our hospital cats do this a while back. We had been feeding her the same food we feed our patients and she was fine with that. However we got a ton of sample packets of a different food and figured we'd feed it to her. We did the food change gradually, but soon she started losing weight, losing her hair, getting scabs all over her body and had horrible bloody diarrhea. We couldn't find anything else wrong with her and changed her food back. After two days her stools firmed up, and after a week no new scabs. After two weeks you could see the hair trying to grow back.

I'm not saying that's what this particular cats problem is, however being it was mentioned she recently started eating a new food, it could be a problem. The cat still needs to see the vet though and soon to prevent further problems. Until you can get to the vet or at least a fecal sample, try to keep your cat in it's own food bowl, not the one that has the other food in it. If you have to feed the cats separately, it could make a big difference.

Is your vet always that busy? If so then I'd concider getting a second vet for emergencies or outright change vets. It's not good to have to wait 3 or more WEEKS when you have a problem now. Most vets should be able to get you in within a day or two, sooner if it's an emergency.

Good luck and keep us posted.

[jennielynn1970]

Poor Kalypso... hope it's nothing serious! Will be sending up good thoughts and prayers for her, and sending out big hugs for her as well!

[Kalei]

Thanks Catlady, that's what I am trying to do right now. Its really hard to keep Kalypso away from the adult food, just for the fact that she can jump pretty much as high as them. I put the food in a different spot that is a little higher up so I am hoping that she won't figure out its there and be able to jump that high.

Right now Kalypso has been on Nutrience for Kittens, but she also had been getting up and eating the cat's adult food, so she has been getting a mixture of both now for awhile.

[rg_girlca]

Poor sweet Kalypso. I glad though that she is still running and playing.

I was going to suggest the same thing that Catty1 did. Getting a sample to the vet tomorrow. At least they can rule out any bacterial infection or worms. Personally, I think it could be the food. This happened with Lindy Lou when she got into the adult food. All I did was kept her in my room for a few days and mixed some Rice Baby Cereal in with some wet food and gave it to her. Within two days her bowels were back to normal, and the adult food got put up higher.

[cassiesmom]

Kalei, how is miss Kalypso today? How do her stools look, any more blood?

[Kalei]

Thanks for asking I just looked at one of her poos and even looked inside it ....gross...and it doesn't have any blood in it, and it is still a form of diarrhea but its not as watery as before, it is a bit firmer Yay! She has gone a full 24 hours without any adult food, so lets hope it was that Maybe tomorrow it will be even better.

[cassiesmom]

Kalei, how is sweet Kalypso? No more blood I hope.