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Hi all! So I adopted my 5-month old kitten, Vanta, about a month ago. When I first bought him in he was on a Purina kitten dry food (I forget which), which he did fine on. I transitioned him to wet food (mostly Soulistic) with almost no problems, but he had a small period of diarrhea with Soulistic turkey. It lasted less than a day so I figured it wasn't a big deal.
From wet food I transitioned him to HPP-processed freeze dried raw food, rehydrated. Everything was great for a few weeks, his poop was firm and mostly odorless. Then, for a behavioral issue it was recommended I have some dry food out for him at night, so I grabbed some Instinct kitten and put a little in his bowl. It was somewhere between 1/8 and 1/4 of his total calories, so I thought it was a slow enough transition. Big mistake. Vanta got pretty bad diarrhea for hours that night.
I took away the instinct kitten dry food, waited a few days, then tried a little orijen cat&kitten dry. Same result.
For now I've cut out all dry food but an unrehydrated primal nugget, cut into pieces. His BMs still haven't returned to normal, they are too soft and super smelly. I'm in litter box hell.
So my questions are:
- Was the problem caused by feeding both raw and kibble, even if they were at different meals? I know this is frowned upon because carbs, but I thought it would cause more vomiting than soft stools... and I'm not sure why this has persisted after the kibble is gone.
- Could he have an intolerance or allergy? He's done well on Stella and Chewy's duck duck goose, Primal turkey nuggets, instinct kitten wet, soulistic shredded chicken, and vital essentials chicken nibs.
- Will a chewable probiotic from Petco maybe improve things? He's already been dewormed recently.
Thanks!
From wet food I transitioned him to HPP-processed freeze dried raw food, rehydrated. Everything was great for a few weeks, his poop was firm and mostly odorless. Then, for a behavioral issue it was recommended I have some dry food out for him at night, so I grabbed some Instinct kitten and put a little in his bowl. It was somewhere between 1/8 and 1/4 of his total calories, so I thought it was a slow enough transition. Big mistake. Vanta got pretty bad diarrhea for hours that night.
I took away the instinct kitten dry food, waited a few days, then tried a little orijen cat&kitten dry. Same result.
For now I've cut out all dry food but an unrehydrated primal nugget, cut into pieces. His BMs still haven't returned to normal, they are too soft and super smelly. I'm in litter box hell.
So my questions are:
- Was the problem caused by feeding both raw and kibble, even if they were at different meals? I know this is frowned upon because carbs, but I thought it would cause more vomiting than soft stools... and I'm not sure why this has persisted after the kibble is gone.
- Could he have an intolerance or allergy? He's done well on Stella and Chewy's duck duck goose, Primal turkey nuggets, instinct kitten wet, soulistic shredded chicken, and vital essentials chicken nibs.
- Will a chewable probiotic from Petco maybe improve things? He's already been dewormed recently.
Thanks!