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I’ve had my American longhair, Darcy, since she was 3 months old. She’s 5 years old now and we’re still having the same issue, though it has varied over time.
She was a shelter cat and I don’t think she was weaned properly because she doesn’t seem to understand how to cover her poop in the litter box, and has some needy, weird behaviors consistent with premature separation from her mother. For the first months that I had her, she had chronic diarrhea and bad flatulence. She could clear a room in seconds! I took her to the vet and he recommended I change her food to something better quality. I switched her to a Purina sensitive skin and stomach formula, which helped a little bit but we were still having the same issue. I also noticed that sometimes there would be a little bit of blood in her stool and she would leave little smears of blood on the floor/furniture. Very small amounts of blood at a time and she didn’t seem to be in pain, but I brought her back to the vet and explained this to him he shrugged me off and said that I should give her immodium tablets, which is what he did for his Persian cats when they had diarrhea. I did this and didn’t really notice a difference, so we went back to the vet, I asked him to do a fecal test to see if there was anything going on but he refused and said to just keep up with the immodium and keep switching food to find something that agreed with her.
Now that she’s older, the flatulence isn’t really an issue anymore but she still has soft, very smelly stool that she doesn’t cover in the box. It gets in her fur and she tracks it around the house, and she smells horrible. Her nickname is ‘smelly cat’. The litter box smells horrible because it’s a self-scooping one but the soft stool gets stuck to the little rake and just reeks. I don’t see any worms or anything in her stool. It’s been five years now of this consistent, chronic problem.
Other than this problem she seems totally healthy. Not dehydrated, eats well (too much, she’s a little chunky) she’s a lazy cat but doesn’t seem lethargic or sickly and can run/jump normally, she doesn’t seem to be in any pain at all. No crying or anything when using the litter box.
Does anyone have any advice for handling this? I’m planning on taking her back in to a different vet to see if they’ll give me any advice, and considering switching her food again though I’m not sure what to try. Recommendations??
Darcy is a beautiful gray tabby color, I’ve considered trimming her hair to keep stool from getting caught in it and tracked around to cut down on the smell. If I do this, will it grow back in the same pretty tabby pattern? Sorry if that’s a stupid question!
She was a shelter cat and I don’t think she was weaned properly because she doesn’t seem to understand how to cover her poop in the litter box, and has some needy, weird behaviors consistent with premature separation from her mother. For the first months that I had her, she had chronic diarrhea and bad flatulence. She could clear a room in seconds! I took her to the vet and he recommended I change her food to something better quality. I switched her to a Purina sensitive skin and stomach formula, which helped a little bit but we were still having the same issue. I also noticed that sometimes there would be a little bit of blood in her stool and she would leave little smears of blood on the floor/furniture. Very small amounts of blood at a time and she didn’t seem to be in pain, but I brought her back to the vet and explained this to him he shrugged me off and said that I should give her immodium tablets, which is what he did for his Persian cats when they had diarrhea. I did this and didn’t really notice a difference, so we went back to the vet, I asked him to do a fecal test to see if there was anything going on but he refused and said to just keep up with the immodium and keep switching food to find something that agreed with her.
Now that she’s older, the flatulence isn’t really an issue anymore but she still has soft, very smelly stool that she doesn’t cover in the box. It gets in her fur and she tracks it around the house, and she smells horrible. Her nickname is ‘smelly cat’. The litter box smells horrible because it’s a self-scooping one but the soft stool gets stuck to the little rake and just reeks. I don’t see any worms or anything in her stool. It’s been five years now of this consistent, chronic problem.
Other than this problem she seems totally healthy. Not dehydrated, eats well (too much, she’s a little chunky) she’s a lazy cat but doesn’t seem lethargic or sickly and can run/jump normally, she doesn’t seem to be in any pain at all. No crying or anything when using the litter box.
Does anyone have any advice for handling this? I’m planning on taking her back in to a different vet to see if they’ll give me any advice, and considering switching her food again though I’m not sure what to try. Recommendations??
Darcy is a beautiful gray tabby color, I’ve considered trimming her hair to keep stool from getting caught in it and tracked around to cut down on the smell. If I do this, will it grow back in the same pretty tabby pattern? Sorry if that’s a stupid question!