I hope 'kibble' is the correct term
We have two 6 month siblings, and a couple of weeks ago we decided to try a new brand of solid food. We had been using low quality kibble (what we could in that moment) and we switched to Applaws, a brand that has a great price/quality ratio.
We did the whole transition thing: a week or so mixing both kibble brands, every day increasing the quantity of the new one. In the end, it took like 9 or 10 days. Of course, in the latter days, both kittens had less solid poop, sometimes not solid at all. Anyway, a couple of days later, they stabilized, so after waiting 2-3 days more, we gave them some canned food, which they had not eaten in more than a month.
And obviously that wasn't a good idea, because bad poop came back. That was last weeked. Now, without more canned food, the male is doing perfectly fine since Monday, but the girl is still having moments of almost liquid poop. Maybe first poop of the day is liquid, then the next is almost perfect, and the last one is a mix, or not very solid... You get the idea.
My question is: is this normal, do they take that long to adapt to new food, specially when they were used to really bad quality kibble?
I once read supermarket-quality kibble was so bad it could damage their internal bacteria and all and that was why they usually had a bad time when eating canned food, because they wouldn't have a way to digest it properly.
Thanks!
We have two 6 month siblings, and a couple of weeks ago we decided to try a new brand of solid food. We had been using low quality kibble (what we could in that moment) and we switched to Applaws, a brand that has a great price/quality ratio.
We did the whole transition thing: a week or so mixing both kibble brands, every day increasing the quantity of the new one. In the end, it took like 9 or 10 days. Of course, in the latter days, both kittens had less solid poop, sometimes not solid at all. Anyway, a couple of days later, they stabilized, so after waiting 2-3 days more, we gave them some canned food, which they had not eaten in more than a month.
And obviously that wasn't a good idea, because bad poop came back. That was last weeked. Now, without more canned food, the male is doing perfectly fine since Monday, but the girl is still having moments of almost liquid poop. Maybe first poop of the day is liquid, then the next is almost perfect, and the last one is a mix, or not very solid... You get the idea.
My question is: is this normal, do they take that long to adapt to new food, specially when they were used to really bad quality kibble?
I once read supermarket-quality kibble was so bad it could damage their internal bacteria and all and that was why they usually had a bad time when eating canned food, because they wouldn't have a way to digest it properly.
Thanks!