Feeding Wet And Dry?

Has anyone had trouble with feeding wet and dry food? My cats had trouble with some soft stool. Somethings it was soft, then formed. Then sometimes both in the same BM.
They used to get dry 3 times a day and wet at 2pm. Then I started giving them more wet food. Every other night wet instead of dry. Then recently I started doing wet every night.
So now its dry in the am, wet at lunch, dry at dinner and wet at bedtime.
I noticed what looked like blood in mittens stool the other day. Now today ebony pooped and dripped blood. :/
Lillian the other day had a dark formed stool with really soft all in the same BM.
Could this be messing their system? I'm struggling now to add more wet food, costly and enough calories. They did change the simply nourish. The pieces are smaller and not sure they made any other changes.

Hi. I think soft stool is not terribly unusual when a cat's diet is changed, and perhaps even more so to begin with when introducing wet food - at least temporarily. But, blood is not a normal part of it, as far as I have ever known.

I saw your other post, and would advise you to take Ebony - and probably Mittens as well - to the vet. They will likely want to take fecal samples and do blood tests to see if they can determine a cause.

The stool I have seen looks formed but wet on the outside? What causes that?

momof3b1g said:

The stool I have seen looks formed but wet on the outside? What causes that?

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Sounds like mucous. Maybe this article about both blood and mucous will help...

Should I Worry if My Cat's Poop Has Blood or Mucus?

Not sure its mucous. It's like soft wet poop is covering the formed stool. That's what I thought maybe it was cause they are getting wet and dry at every other feeding.

Possibly, but not the blood - as far as I know.

I am also putting a link here to your other post, so readers can see all of what has gone on so far.
Blood In Stool :/

I have fed a combo of wet and dry for years with two cats and never had this issue

mizzely said:

I have fed a combo of wet and dry for years with two cats and never had this issue

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Thanks. Dont know what's going on. They have had BM problems lately on and off. Wasnt sure if the mix of meals would cause issues irritating their system. Dry causing constipation then then wet causing soft stool. Instead of working together. If that makes sense

I am sorry, I may be missing something in your posts. Yes, an abrupt, immediate dietary change (vs. slow move from one food to another by gradually mixing them together) can cause temporary changes in stool - unless for some reason the cats are allergic to the new foods. But, I have never heard of that resulting in bloody stools. Have you gotten the bloody stool (and possible mucous) issue resolved, and I perhaps missed that part?

FeebysOwner said:

I am sorry, I may be missing something in your posts. Yes, an abrupt, immediate dietary change (vs. slow move from one food to another by gradually mixing them together) can cause temporary changes in stool - unless for some reason the cats are allergic to the new foods. But, I have never heard of that resulting in bloody stools. Have you gotten the bloody stool (and possible mucous) issue resolved, and I perhaps missed that part?

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No nothing i can do til next week and vet will need a new sample. They said to keep an eye on it. I just dont know whats causing it seeing constipation could cause the blood. She did stand up in the box to try and go. They are getting more wet food and did in the past have more dry stool. One reason im trying to get them to eat more wet food. I feed mostly fancy feast wet and know others were having issues. Wonder if that could be the problem. there was a poster who said they had a bacterial infection, maybe from the food.

Ok 2 cats now I have found poop all over the inside of back legs and Rockies bum. I've had to wash them off. Rockie and Levi. I haven't noticed diarrhea in the boxes. But I'm guessing that's what it is or are they leaking poop maybe?
I swear I dont know what's causing so many issues.

What kind of food are you giving them?

Are they inside or outside? Maybe they have picked up some sort of parasite. Dexter had a coccidia infection that caused him to have runny poop.

Indoor only. Fancy feast pate and grain free simply nourish

momof3b1g said:

Ok 2 cats now I have found poop all over the inside of back legs and Rockies bum. I've had to wash them off. Rockie and Levi. I haven't noticed diarrhea in the boxes. But I'm guessing that's what it is or are they leaking poop maybe?
I swear I dont know what's causing so many issues.

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My two cats had that problem when they were eating Friskies Classic Pate. I had to clean poop off their bums every day . They love Friskies and I think it's good food but I couldn't figure out what the issue was so I switched them back to Fancy Feast Classic . No problem since.

Minxxy said:

My two cats had that problem when they were eating Friskies Classic Pate. I had to clean poop off their bums every day . They love Friskies and I think it's good food but I couldn't figure out what the issue was so I switched them back to Fancy Feast Classic . No problem since.

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The important thing is that you've eliminated the problem by switching the food!

FWIW, the two biggest differences between those two foods would be that the Friskies has both rice and carrageenan but Fancy Feast does not. Of course it may be that neither of those ingredients was what caused the problem but some research has shown that carrageenan can cause inflammation and rice isn't a natural food for (carnivorous) cats. (Which is why I will feed our cats Fancy Feast but not Friskies.)

Hi,

Joy is fed wet food, but she doesn’t like pate food, so I don’t buy her pate food. Sometimes when I do happen to buy her pate food by accident and served it to her, she will turn her nose on it, or if she does eat it, she has diarrhea like really bad. I have to be diligent about not buying her pate canned food. Joy does like to eat stew or chunky wet food. Lately, I have been giving her one scoop of dry food (equals 1/6 cup) in the mornings and wet food at night (equals about 2 tablespoons from the can). It’s plenty for her, as she tends to leave food in her bowl if she is not hungry. I also give her hairball supplement paste nowadays because she has a tendency to over-groom herself, thus she has hairballs collecting in her stomach or intestines, hard to pass, without vomiting.

1/6 cup of dry food plus 2 Tablespoons of wet food per day doesn't sound like enough food.