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I posted last week that my cat had been diagnosed with lymphoma, but the vet got a second opinion on the biopsy and now thinks that it's ibd. Prior to all of her issues starting a few months ago, I had been feeding her cooked food (rabbit, chicken, and turkey). She had started having really hard dry stools and shortly after that, stopped eating which is when we took her in and got the ibd/lymphoma diagnosis. She didn't want to eat the cooked food anymore, so I started giving her canned chicken (Soulistic) that she usually ate without an issue, but it gave her runny stools that lasted for almost two months. The vet thought she had a chicken allergy since the runny stools started right after I switched her and she started itching her face and ears. Last weekend, I started transitioning her back to the cooked food (turkey only) and her stools started firming up. A week later, they are back to the super hard and dry that she had before and she strains in the litter box for a couple minutes before she is able to go. She has also started slowly losing her appetite as her stool has become harder. I had been mixing water in, so she should be getting enough liquid and she is urinating normally. The odd thing is that she had been eating this cooked food for nearly a year without the added water before the dry stools started. The vet keeps saying that cooked food is the best thing for her since she has ibd but it just doesn't seem to work for her and I have no idea why! I don't know if she has an allergy to turkey that is causing the constipation or if the bone content is suddenly too much for her to handle or if there's something else about the cooked food that affects her.