Poor baby. Yes, take it slowly.
Thanks...I am using rabbbit bone broth...our other cat eats rabbit which we buy and then steam and then add add a premix to make our own cooked rabbit food ..so we use the leftover bones to make a broth...Here's one that I liked suggesting (towards bottom) a meat bone broth should be used in the beginning before raw to heal the GI tract.
Feline Inflammatory Bowel Disease: Nature and Treatment - Feline Nutrition
Feline Inflammatory Bowel Disease: Nature and Treatment - Feline Nutrition
Great idea!Thanks...I am using rabbbit bone broth...our other cat eats rabbit which we buy and then steam and then add add a premix to make our own cooked rabbit food ..so we use the leftover bones to make a broth...
HelloJames Kelly: If your cat is vomiting (versus regurgitating), try a different protein. He might be rabbit-intolerant despite the fact that it's a novel protein. Try turkey or pork. My cat can't tolerate duck. Also, try to feed more often and in smaller amounts. If you feed 2x/daily; try 4x daily.
By the way, I would try to figure out the proportion of bone in the raw rabbit mix, or at least find out if the head is included. Whole rabbit is quite boney.
HiThis is very mysterious. I'm glad you got your cat checked out thoroughly by the vet.
It might just be that the transition was too fast. If he wasn't vomiting on a mix of raw and canned, you could go back to the smallest proportion of canned that is required to stop the problem. It'll also be reassuring to know that it's a simple diet issue, if going back on part canned/part raw fixes it. If so, let him stay on that a week or two, then try gradually taking away the canned, but do it more slowly than you did previously.
Some other things you could try, to get your cat off canned and symptom-free as quickly as possible:
- Rad Cat, if you can find it. It uses eggshell calcium rather than ground bone.
- Homemade food - first try using eggshell calcium in place of bone, then try cooking the meat. There are recipes on this thread and on the catinfo.org website.
- A slightly wild idea: Honest Kitchen Grace. It's a dehydrated cooked food with an unfortunate but tolerable amount of carbs in the form of potato and pumpkin, but it's much less processed than canned and has none of the crappy ingredients that trigger IBS symptoms. If so, you can use it to help get your cat off canned food. My brother used Honest Kitchen for his IBS cat and reports that she did better on it than raw food.
You're unfortunately having to throw darts at the problem since the canned food produces lose poop with no vomiting and the raw food produces solid poops but with nausea.
One of the things that seems to produce solid, firm stools in raw fed cats is the use of whole raw bone. When you cook the rabbit, you are using eggshell calcium instead of raw bone, and continue to see pudding poop. I don't want to experiment on your kitty like a lab rat , but I wonder what would happen if you served cooked meat with some small pieces of raw meaty bone for calcium? Just thinking out loud...
Thank you for your sharing your experience with Tummyworks.I use something called tummyworks to keep my cats poop a bit more solid when she's on canned. It's like a constant struggle. I'm just getting her on raw. I really hope you get it figured out. Maybe tummyworks would help in the meantime, if you have it there. She's 11.6 lbs and takes 1 1/2 scoops maintenance. Just thought I'd share in case it helps.
Thank you for your advice on how much to give.I have tried fortiflora,a different probiotic but without success but then I was told that it is not a complete probiotic to give so I was llooking around for another probiotic to give him.Tummyworks is just a blend of probiotics but really help with mushy poop. I got it through amazon. My cat takes 1 1/2 scoops when on soft and is 11.6 lbs. I emailed asking about using 2 scoops and they responded right back saying that don't recommend using 2 scoops at her size for more than a week or two. It's a nicely large container. Just another option while trying to figure things out. 2 scoops might constipate.
I do have baby spoons I use to give her a spoon or two of fage yogurt plain. It helps their tummy but won't over firm poop. Be sure to only use plain no flavors and no sweeteners.