Sloppy poo with occasional blood

Please help! I have 4 moggies and 2 maine coons. My intention was never to have this many but I rescued some which would have been put to sleep. All my moggies are fine on whatever food they eat and they come and go as they please and biscuit food is always out for them and they have tins of meat morning and night. The Maine Coons started out on Royal Canin Maine Coon Kitten dry and it didnt agree with either of them. I then switched to Hills and my female kitten now has no problems and even when she steals the adult food she is absolutely fine. In fact she is better on whiskers meat sachets. My male however constantly has sloppy poo which he frequently brings into the living room slimed down his back legs and paws and I have also noticed blood in it. The first time I noticed the vet prescribed me some paste to give him and tinned sensitive food and i still noticed no difference accept the blood did go. My main issue is because I have so many cats who eat everyday food, I am struggling to stop my sensitive tum maine coon from eating it. I am at work most of the day and all the cats sleep in the conservatory which i leave open so they can go out when they please and still have a warm place with food and shelter. I would really struggle to feed them separately, any advice on how to firm up his poo's and feeding regimes/techniques would be greatly appreciated. I know a lot of the issues are because of the amount of cats I have and I would of put the latest rescue up for adoption however no one is taking them and she was minutes away from being put to sleep at her owners request and she was fit and healthy so I could not let that happen.

HI ,im no expert & you will prolly get a better reply from some of the more experinenced forum members but i had a similar problem which i fixed so i can share what i did.

Firstly until you can stop him eating the others food you will possibly never sort the problem ,with our lil girl the slightest ammount of dry food would set her off even if it was just a mouthfull ,she was on Rc food and sloppy poo was the norm & like you occasional blood, i tried all kinds of dry food and nothing changed, it wasnt untill i switched to an all wet diet that things improved greatly ,there is a parasite that can cause this as well which the standard wormer doest kill i forget the name but im sure someone will post it ,and at one point i beleived our lil girl had this ,but it turned out to be solely her diet .

What i did was find a wet food which mine would eat this happened to be felix as good as it looks ,i then put her on a boiled chicken diet for a few days until the poo firmed up then i started adding felix very slowly into her diet this took almost 10 days until she was on all felix diet ,at which point her poo was firm not text book but a lot better .

I then researched a better quality food than felix ,not to say felix isn't a good food but i beleive there is better foods out there for the money if you can get your cat to eat them ,and after my experience with dry food i will not be going back to it ,i now have mine eating a mixture of bozita pate which is very good and Smilla the poultry and fish pots which she goes mad for both available from zooplus ,she has the occasional raw chicken wing for her teeth .

Following advice given on this forum i also used nutri plus gel during this period to boost the nutriants she might of been losing while trying to fix the problem and i have continued using it and will prolly use till she is at least 2 yrs old ,i tried forti flora which some ppl have had great success with but it didnt really do anything for our lil girl

It is a hard struggle finding the right food it took me almost 6 weeks & at one point i felt total dispair but i now have a very happy lil coonie who goes once a day with a text book poo and all the problems seem a distant memory ,there is a huge amount of advice given in this forum & others with regards diet's and dry v wet food discussions ,but in my opinion & experience i would try a wet food diet only & see how that fairs ,with my lil girl there was somethign in dry food that just didnt agree with her :(

Good luck & i hope you can find a solution quickly as i know exactlly how you feel at mo

Grace & willow

I hope chicken boiled with turmeric powder and salt can solve his problem.My MC had the same prob in his childhood and I tried many things n he became ok after I tried this food. you try to give the same food to other cats till the coonie becomes healthier..my warm wishes to ur boys n girls.. I know the effort in making the gentle giants clean if he has stomach disorder..as they r with lots of fur..

My experience: I had the same problems with my MC male. He too had blood in his sloppy & highly stinky poo which was tracked thru the house on occasion. I put him on cooked ground up chicken for 3 days then slowly added back his kitten food. Once he was back on kitten food, he had the same problems again. I even tried different dry and canned kitten foods with no success. At 6 months of age he saw a new vet. This vet told me that kitten food can be too rich for some kitty tummies. She told me to try the dry Royal Canin Maine Coon 31. I did the chicken again for 3 days then slowly introduced the RC 31. This cleared him up. His poo has been normal since and he's now 9 months old and still loving the RC 31. I love the big kibble bits as they're great for his teeth. I also give him about 1 tablespoon of canned cat (not kitten) food as a treat for breakfast and 1 tablespoon for dinner.

With a lot of cats in the home, you may have to change the diet for everyone as they all have access to the same food bowls. When one cat has to eat special food, I just give it to all of the others as long as it isn't bad for them.

Good luck and I hope you find a cure soon.