One day of loose poo and one day of firm poo....for 6 months now

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14 year old cat, in good health according to vet. (That is her as my avatar.) Has one day of loose poo and one day of normal poo alternating for 6 months now. Just does not seem right. Tried pumpkin, elm bark, hypo alergenic food, different foods, duck, turkey ...etc. from different vendors and no change. She seems happy, healthy and her normal self. I just can't help thinking this is not normal. Any thoughts?
 

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I hate to say it, but maybe it is related to all these different things you have been trying?

Foods can change a cat's stool, so if she gets different foods/treats, not the same things every day, that could explain the alternating soft and normal poops.

I'd cut out all the remedies you've been trying, go back to her normal food routines, chart what she eats, and see if you find a pattern.
 

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Try something that isn't poultry based...no chicken, turkey, or duck. Try lamb, venison, rabbit, or salmon but make sure there is no hidden chicken in the ingredients! My allergic boy is very sensitive to poultry. Less so for lamb and salmon. More sensitive to "whitefish and shrimp". Also sensitive to beef, and not interested at all with rabbit...and losing interest with lamb after I spent a lot of money when he ate it for 3 days straight. It's hard I know...but if you find a protein they are sensitive to...or an additive or thickener like carrageenan, guar gum, and xanthine gum, just take them off it. It may not be the protein at all. If you can find a food without that thickening gum or additive try again and see if that helps. Many of Weruva's products have no gums and thickeners, or use agar agar which seems to be the least irritating even to my IBD cat.
 
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I hate to say it, but maybe it is related to all these different things you have been trying?

Foods can change a cat's stool, so if she gets different foods/treats, not the same things every day, that could explain the alternating soft and normal poops.

I'd cut out all the remedies you've been trying, go back to her normal food routines, chart what she eats, and see if you find a pattern.
Thanks, I watched for 1 whole month with no changes, then I tried the supplements two weeks at a time, then I tried virtually all the different foods a week at a time if she liked them. No success so far.
 
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Try something that isn't poultry based...no chicken, turkey, or duck. Try lamb, venison, rabbit, or salmon but make sure there is no hidden chicken in the ingredients! My allergic boy is very sensitive to poultry. Less so for lamb and salmon. More sensitive to "whitefish and shrimp". Also sensitive to beef, and not interested at all with rabbit...and losing interest with lamb after I spent a lot of money when he ate it for 3 days straight. It's hard I know...but if you find a protein they are sensitive to...or an additive or thickener like carrageenan, guar gum, and xanthine gum, just take them off it. It may not be the protein at all. If you can find a food without that thickening gum or additive try again and see if that helps. Many of Weruva's products have no gums and thickeners, or use agar agar which seems to be the least irritating even to my IBD cat.
Thanks for the idea of the thickeners, never thought of that. Tried Weruva's, she hates it unfortunately. But I will keep looking.
 

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I don't know the types of wet food, in terms of texture, that your cat likes, but Fancy Feast pates only have one 'thickener' in them. It is guar gum, so that would perhaps eliminate a problem with other thickeners. But, it like so many others has a degree of fish in them, so it that is the trigger, it wouldn't resolve the problem.

My cat, too, hated Weruva (again, I am talking about pates). It contains xanthan gum, but also locust bean gum, as well as potato starch for thickening. The stuff looked like it contained some kind of gel, which is likely whatever they use to create their 'hydrating puree', and that seemed to turn off Feeby.

The only thing about the every-other-day poop changes is that if your cat is eating the exact same thing every day, why would it not impact her poops daily? If there were any differences in the food you feed from one day to the next (including treats or human food), then that would seem to make more sense, as one could impact her stool and another not.
 
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