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My kitten Ruby is six months old, and she is always eating stuff off the floor. I just can’t sweep up fast enough, plus I have a very messy second-grader. So she’s always eating bits of crackers, cereal, nuts, veggie scraps, snow, dirt, etc. Half the time I don’t even know there’s anything on the floor to eat and then I see her crunching up some mystery crap.
Anyway, she has periodic loose stools, which as you know are very disgusting. She always uses the litterbox, but her fluffy butt gets yucky. I have been giving her probiotic powder (the kind made for pets) to help with this, but I don’t know if there is some other thing I should be doing. I think pumpkin is for constipation? I have been mixing their wet cat food with water—could she be getting too much water that way?
I would love any advice, because not only is this messy and smelly but it’s starting to stress everyone out and the poor kitten is confused about why she is being stuck in the bathroom and manhandled as we try to clean her up. One thing I know I need to do is buy an electric clipper and figure out how to use it like they do at the vet’s...which, by the way, I haven’t called the vet because she doesn’t actually seem sick. She eats, plays, gets along with the older cat, and uses her box properly; I really think this problem is just from eating random floor stuff and maybe some Boston Fern leaves.
Thanks in advance for the advice.
Anyway, she has periodic loose stools, which as you know are very disgusting. She always uses the litterbox, but her fluffy butt gets yucky. I have been giving her probiotic powder (the kind made for pets) to help with this, but I don’t know if there is some other thing I should be doing. I think pumpkin is for constipation? I have been mixing their wet cat food with water—could she be getting too much water that way?
I would love any advice, because not only is this messy and smelly but it’s starting to stress everyone out and the poor kitten is confused about why she is being stuck in the bathroom and manhandled as we try to clean her up. One thing I know I need to do is buy an electric clipper and figure out how to use it like they do at the vet’s...which, by the way, I haven’t called the vet because she doesn’t actually seem sick. She eats, plays, gets along with the older cat, and uses her box properly; I really think this problem is just from eating random floor stuff and maybe some Boston Fern leaves.
Thanks in advance for the advice.