A few weeks ago I had posted about my then 18 week old Siberian kitten having very soft to almost non-formed very smelly stools. Below is the link to the origional thread.
Kitten With Soft Smelly Stools
It turns out that he has a bacteria that produces urease and that is the likely culpret for the cause of the crystals and he has bacteria in his stomach/ lower digestive tract that causes his colon to spasm (the vet thinks the 2 are related). The vet has recomended that he be perminently on Hills c/d or Rayne RSS. Neither food is of great quality (Rayne uses only natural ingreadients for preservation and has a 2% higher protien content than Hills and uses potato products as compared to the corn and wheat used by Hills). My poor boy has had 2 shots of anti-biotics and seems to be doing well with more normaly formed stools (he still smells....), and has been using the litter boxes (except after getting home from the vet...he pooped in the BF's bathtub after they got home from his first antibiotic needle and then again in the BF's tub when I brought him home from getting his second antibiotic needle, he then pooped in the litter box that evening).
So the question is: Has anyone had experiance with bacteria that produces urease that resulted in struvite crystals and used somthing other then a "prescription diet"?
I have started to increase his wet food and introduce some well hydrated freeze dried raw foods with a low dose of pre and probiotics. Until I get the results of the follow up samples (not to be taken for a few more weeks) I won't compleatly keep him on the "prescription diet" as I'm concerned about his nutrition, between Nov 23-Dec 4 his weight went from 2.8kg to 3.33kg and he polished off 2/3 of a bag of Hills 1.8kg bag of dry food. Physicaly he grew bigger~ I was a way for most of that time and noticed that he was bigger then his sister when I got home, they were the same size when I left.
Kitten With Soft Smelly Stools
It turns out that he has a bacteria that produces urease and that is the likely culpret for the cause of the crystals and he has bacteria in his stomach/ lower digestive tract that causes his colon to spasm (the vet thinks the 2 are related). The vet has recomended that he be perminently on Hills c/d or Rayne RSS. Neither food is of great quality (Rayne uses only natural ingreadients for preservation and has a 2% higher protien content than Hills and uses potato products as compared to the corn and wheat used by Hills). My poor boy has had 2 shots of anti-biotics and seems to be doing well with more normaly formed stools (he still smells....), and has been using the litter boxes (except after getting home from the vet...he pooped in the BF's bathtub after they got home from his first antibiotic needle and then again in the BF's tub when I brought him home from getting his second antibiotic needle, he then pooped in the litter box that evening).
So the question is: Has anyone had experiance with bacteria that produces urease that resulted in struvite crystals and used somthing other then a "prescription diet"?
I have started to increase his wet food and introduce some well hydrated freeze dried raw foods with a low dose of pre and probiotics. Until I get the results of the follow up samples (not to be taken for a few more weeks) I won't compleatly keep him on the "prescription diet" as I'm concerned about his nutrition, between Nov 23-Dec 4 his weight went from 2.8kg to 3.33kg and he polished off 2/3 of a bag of Hills 1.8kg bag of dry food. Physicaly he grew bigger~ I was a way for most of that time and noticed that he was bigger then his sister when I got home, they were the same size when I left.
