Thread: Stupid question about frequent diarrhea

Originally Posted by jckkerrison

Welly has diarrhoea if he catches a bluebottle,I always reckon its because somebody has sprayed the b****y thing somewhere & its got away from them & decides to just pass by my cats for its final flight,crunch,crunch,yum,yum....& as he is the sharpest cat on this block he mostly gets them !
They all tended to get slightly upset tums & a couple of them very upset tums if they were on what I class the "Rich"type of foods for more than a couple of days,hence good old Felix tins, has to be jelly,gravy causes even more problems,sachets still upset them if they have for more than one day & only the few biscuits because once again can cause too many upsets for some of them as well as cause weight problem with one of the boys.
Like everyone else don't want to be cleaning bums & trousers unless its for a genuine upset tum & have found the good old basic works well for mine,no growth problems either.Daughters female cat has had lots of problems with her tum over past few years & we always put it down to food changes,we have now found out it was stress related,not the cat being stressed but daughter.We have one of the biggest breed of cats & you would presume the strongest,but not so,they are very,very sensitive,bless them.

I can't even think about her eating a blue bottle, or a spider - I'm all or for encouraging a cat's natural instincts but that's just not nice...

I'm leaning heavily towards going back to the original diet, especially after reading this. We're your typical DINKY's (Dual Income, No Kids Yet) couple so we've been able to get Freyja the 'best quality' food that we could find, so the high meat content recipes seemed the right way to go. But perhaps it's just too rich for MC tums (or at least my MC).

Our Monty has had similar problems for months. Ever since we first got him he had gas in his belly and soft poo. Then it suddenly turned really squishy and smelly so we took him to the vet. First his poo was checked for parasites such as Giardia… thankfully nothing like that turned up!

We conferred with the vet and started changing his food and the feeding schedule.
After some experimenting we found out what works best for Monty (and the girls as well):

• Their main food is kibble. The vet told us not to leave a full bowl standing around during the day. They get fed a certain amount twice a day, so they have time to digest the food between meals.
• We changed the dry food from Sanabelle Kitten to Hill’s Kitten.
• Wet food they only get on special occasions. (Although I consider every Saturday a special occasion. )
• For wet food it’s usually freshly cooked fish, chicken or turkey. Whenever I have to resort to packaged food, it’s either Whiskas or Cosma. Definitely no Bozita … it immediately upsets Monty’s tummy.
• Treats: a couple of Hill’s t/d a day (they love them and it’s good for their teeth), and of course the daily bed-time prawn. We do give them tidbits from our own meals (such as cheese, ham, egg, fish) but really, really microscopic scraps.

This may sound like a Spartan diet, but it got rid of Monty’s diarrhoea problem. And both he and the girls are thriving.

I always used to feed my cats on raw and never ever had tummy upsets at all. Unfortunately, the company closed and when I switched over to a new supplier, all of my cats came down with sickness and diarrhoea, which I figured was from a type of food poisoning.

So, I decided to go down the commercial route and started them on Bozita wet food, as I have never liked biscuits. They all seemed permanantly starving so I fed them 3 times a day using 6 tetrapaks between 6 cats each day. They all had permanent diarrhoea - we had just brought another girl in so I thought she had brought something into the house. I went through months and months of testing and vet appointments and yet nothing showed up.

Anyway, to cut a long story short it turns out that I was massively overfeeding them, especially with all the wet food and when I re-introduced biscuit and gave them the guideline portions it all cleared up.

I always think that with most diarrhoea issues that food and diet has a huge role to play and you should always try and eliminate any dietary problems before you look at anything else.