I adopted two brothers about 3 years ago - Hank and Dean.
Dean is seeming to be my problem child. I’m going to give a brief history on Dean.
Dean had loose stools (occasionally with red blood) for a year and half. We tried all kinds of food. I finally got him poops completely perfect rotating pro plan, tiki cat, Royal Canin (various flavors) with Weurva Paw Lickin’ Chicken. Out of the blue, he will occasionally have loose stools about every 4-6 months. Sometimes both of the cats will have it and sometimes just Dean. Which has always made me think we got a bad batch of food or something.
This last round, Hank had diarrhea which cleared up and then Dean started with it - with very loose stools with red blood - only once per day so it wasn’t true diarrhea in the fact that he wasn’t going multiple times per day.
Off the to vet, again. Doc now think it’s either a sensitivity to chicken or IBD. Is that just something they say when they don’t know? We’re going to schedule an ultrasound. Parasites have been ruled out. He’s acting fine. Because the vet thinks it may be chicken, he switched him to rabbit - Royal Canin Selected PR. He hates it with a passion. He’s refuses the canned and will eat some of the dry but not enough to meet basic caloric needs.
He’s overweight because he’s the laziest cat on the planet. Love is all he needs - laying on your lap for hours, LOL. He plays also, though.
So my problem, he hates the food. I’ve tried other rabbit foods - Instinct, Ziwi, Koha. I think he just hates rabbit. So I bought some Ziwi Venison. No go. Today I buckled and mixed his Selected PR Dry with some Tiki Cat Tuna - he ate - finally.
This isn’t worth the stress to him or me. If he doesn’t have IBS he will from the stress of being fed food he hates and being hungry! Do you agree? I have read thread after thread of finicky cats (which aren’t they all?) and the IBS threads. I guess my question boils down to - is it just better to eat or suffer through starvation with the theory that if he’s hungry enough, he’ll eat (I don’t really like that plan). In addition, I do not like him only being on dry.
If you have any thoughts, I’d love to hear them. Thanks for reading such a long post.
Dean is seeming to be my problem child. I’m going to give a brief history on Dean.
Dean had loose stools (occasionally with red blood) for a year and half. We tried all kinds of food. I finally got him poops completely perfect rotating pro plan, tiki cat, Royal Canin (various flavors) with Weurva Paw Lickin’ Chicken. Out of the blue, he will occasionally have loose stools about every 4-6 months. Sometimes both of the cats will have it and sometimes just Dean. Which has always made me think we got a bad batch of food or something.
This last round, Hank had diarrhea which cleared up and then Dean started with it - with very loose stools with red blood - only once per day so it wasn’t true diarrhea in the fact that he wasn’t going multiple times per day.
Off the to vet, again. Doc now think it’s either a sensitivity to chicken or IBD. Is that just something they say when they don’t know? We’re going to schedule an ultrasound. Parasites have been ruled out. He’s acting fine. Because the vet thinks it may be chicken, he switched him to rabbit - Royal Canin Selected PR. He hates it with a passion. He’s refuses the canned and will eat some of the dry but not enough to meet basic caloric needs.
He’s overweight because he’s the laziest cat on the planet. Love is all he needs - laying on your lap for hours, LOL. He plays also, though.
So my problem, he hates the food. I’ve tried other rabbit foods - Instinct, Ziwi, Koha. I think he just hates rabbit. So I bought some Ziwi Venison. No go. Today I buckled and mixed his Selected PR Dry with some Tiki Cat Tuna - he ate - finally.
This isn’t worth the stress to him or me. If he doesn’t have IBS he will from the stress of being fed food he hates and being hungry! Do you agree? I have read thread after thread of finicky cats (which aren’t they all?) and the IBS threads. I guess my question boils down to - is it just better to eat or suffer through starvation with the theory that if he’s hungry enough, he’ll eat (I don’t really like that plan). In addition, I do not like him only being on dry.
If you have any thoughts, I’d love to hear them. Thanks for reading such a long post.