Kitty Constipation Poll

What have you found works best?

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SaraMV

SaraMV

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For those who have experience with it, please feel free to offer any experience/advice for people who might be dealing with it for the first time. Both of my kitties (one diabetic, one not) have been having less bowel movements since they've been switched to a high protein diet.
 
Their reaction to the new diet is normal and nothing to be alarmed with as long as they are still doing it, with high protein diets you have less waste so feces tend to be smaller and sometimes not as frequent as with high carb diets

When my cats started to have actuall constipation problems because CKD and age I started giving them physillium and Slippery Elm Bark and it has worked just fine
 
I havent tried all of these, but i found miralax to work ( but in a slower fashion) slippery elm was gangbusters on Landos system
 
I have found pumpkin works best for my cats. When I open a can I put the extra in an ice cube tray and freeze it. Then I have more available the next time I need it. It also works for diarrhea.
 
Lisa and Witn (GA) said:
I have found pumpkin works best for my cats. When I open a can I put the extra in an ice cube tray and freeze it. Then I have more available the next time I need it. It also works for diarrhea.
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I really like that idea. Then you can take out a little at a time.
 
I'm finding that pumpkin is doing pretty much nothing for my guy. He still pooping little rabbit nuggets and straining, he's at 1/2 teaspoon of pumpkin per meal now, which can be up to 5-6 times a day. I'm trying psylium husk powder next.
 
zerovector said:
I'm finding that pumpkin is doing pretty much nothing for my guy. He still pooping little rabbit nuggets and straining, he's at 1/2 teaspoon of pumpkin per meal now, which can be up to 5-6 times a day. I'm trying psylium husk powder next.
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Pumpkin also didn't work for our two prior cats who had constipation.
 
Dr Lisa in her webpage explains in great detail the changes in the stool with high protein food as well as the constipation problems some cats may experience when transitioning to the new diet and suggested treatments

In her page when she addreses the question "What is the normal consistency of feline feces when eating a species-appropriate diet?" she says:

"it is important to note that the feces of a cat eating a species-appropriate diet are often dry and crumbly which is not necessarily abnormal, or a problem, for most cats. Cats eating a natural, species-appropriate diet do not produce soft, voluminous, stinky feces like so many people are used to seeing from their cats eating commercial diets."

she also mentions that:

"fecal ‘logs’ are smaller in diameter than those produced from higher residue commercial diets and the cat’s gut tract is not accustomed to dealing with the difference in bulk."

This is the link to her page where she explains it:

https://catinfo.org/making-cat-food/
 
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