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Hi!
I've been feeding my boy the same dry food for a while now that he loves and does well on, but recently he started having soft stools (slightly melted ice cream texture) that are MEGA stinky and sometimes gets stuck on his butt hairs. His poop sample is cleared by the vet and he shows no other behavior changes or symptoms.
I suspect it's related to the food as the recent batch I got before all this started was different looking than my previous bags. After 3weeks of soft stools with some red blood, I made a decision to return to another dry food he has had before and did fine on in case the off batch was causing the issues (some recent reviews also echoed my experience). However he is still having the stool issues just with less to no blood now. I'm not sure if this is because of the sudden food transition or something else? It's really smelly and unusual. Either way I also started giving him some jarrow formulas saccharomyces boulardii as it has helped him firm up soft stool in the past.
I can't swap him to wet because I tried it for a few month slowly before until he literally started a hunger strike so bad it snowballed into a huge health scare that almost killed him due to him rejecting food. It's a long story but just trust me when I say this boy is sadly kibble only.(my other cat is getting the best wet I can afford!)
I've been feeding my boy the same dry food for a while now that he loves and does well on, but recently he started having soft stools (slightly melted ice cream texture) that are MEGA stinky and sometimes gets stuck on his butt hairs. His poop sample is cleared by the vet and he shows no other behavior changes or symptoms.
I suspect it's related to the food as the recent batch I got before all this started was different looking than my previous bags. After 3weeks of soft stools with some red blood, I made a decision to return to another dry food he has had before and did fine on in case the off batch was causing the issues (some recent reviews also echoed my experience). However he is still having the stool issues just with less to no blood now. I'm not sure if this is because of the sudden food transition or something else? It's really smelly and unusual. Either way I also started giving him some jarrow formulas saccharomyces boulardii as it has helped him firm up soft stool in the past.
I can't swap him to wet because I tried it for a few month slowly before until he literally started a hunger strike so bad it snowballed into a huge health scare that almost killed him due to him rejecting food. It's a long story but just trust me when I say this boy is sadly kibble only.(my other cat is getting the best wet I can afford!)