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My kitten is 5 month old and following many people's suggestion, I've been committed to feeding him wet food. He still has certain portion of dry food in his diet only because he needs to have access to food whenever he feels hungry. To offset any negative impact, I feed him reputable brands of dried and canned food only (blue buffalo, wellness core etc).
Problem happened lately when he started vomiting and having lose stool. He has been on wellness core chicken and turkey (both canned and dried) for a while and we couldn't think of anything wrong with it. One day it just popped into my eyes that cat may have these issues due to food allergy from having the same type of protein over the time. To resolve vomiting, I followed the vet's suggestion and fed him smaller portions of food each time and the trick worked. In an effort to kill lose stool, I switched him to the white fish and herring version of the same brand for the canned -- however, we got bad diarrhea that night.
I subsequently read that lots of cats are particularly sensitive to fish, so I immediately switched him onto Natural Balance duck and green pea formula canned. During 3 days he had mostly normal stools but still had once or twice of lose stool/diarrhea. Today I read that pea fiber needs to be avoided from the kitty's diet, and regardless whether it was the cause of his diarrhea, I've decided to have him off from that even though I've already bought a dozen of venison and green pea formula canned besides that.
Another thing I've been reading about is carrageenan and guar gum's high correlation with cancer and damaged digestibility in cats. Reading the ingredient list of food we've tried (e.g., both flavors of wellness core, both flavors of natural balance and Evo), both are on it neat and clear. Plus Cranberries, which is proven to be toxic according to some sources, is well laid out on the labels too.
There has been many twists and turns in finding the right cat food and we still haven't landed on a safe choice yet. We've been switching the kitten among different brands hoping for ruling out factors for diarrhea/lose stool, but the kitten still gets that every once in a while on the new food and we are not sure whether this is due to the undefined legacy issue or new ingredient intolerance.
Anyone feel the same frustration here?
A question - when switching canned food to rule out reasons for irregular symptoms, how fast can you go? I know it is widely suggested to mix the new food with old for transition but that way, I wouldn't know which food is causing the issues.
Problem happened lately when he started vomiting and having lose stool. He has been on wellness core chicken and turkey (both canned and dried) for a while and we couldn't think of anything wrong with it. One day it just popped into my eyes that cat may have these issues due to food allergy from having the same type of protein over the time. To resolve vomiting, I followed the vet's suggestion and fed him smaller portions of food each time and the trick worked. In an effort to kill lose stool, I switched him to the white fish and herring version of the same brand for the canned -- however, we got bad diarrhea that night.
I subsequently read that lots of cats are particularly sensitive to fish, so I immediately switched him onto Natural Balance duck and green pea formula canned. During 3 days he had mostly normal stools but still had once or twice of lose stool/diarrhea. Today I read that pea fiber needs to be avoided from the kitty's diet, and regardless whether it was the cause of his diarrhea, I've decided to have him off from that even though I've already bought a dozen of venison and green pea formula canned besides that.
Another thing I've been reading about is carrageenan and guar gum's high correlation with cancer and damaged digestibility in cats. Reading the ingredient list of food we've tried (e.g., both flavors of wellness core, both flavors of natural balance and Evo), both are on it neat and clear. Plus Cranberries, which is proven to be toxic according to some sources, is well laid out on the labels too.
There has been many twists and turns in finding the right cat food and we still haven't landed on a safe choice yet. We've been switching the kitten among different brands hoping for ruling out factors for diarrhea/lose stool, but the kitten still gets that every once in a while on the new food and we are not sure whether this is due to the undefined legacy issue or new ingredient intolerance.
Anyone feel the same frustration here?
A question - when switching canned food to rule out reasons for irregular symptoms, how fast can you go? I know it is widely suggested to mix the new food with old for transition but that way, I wouldn't know which food is causing the issues.
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