Smelly poop

Clover_07

Clover_07

Member Since 2025
When your cats were first diagnosed with diabetes, did their poop smell more foul? My cat’s poop stinks really badly, but he has always had very stinky poop in college. However, I feel it has gotten worse since his diagnosis. Is this normal? It doesn’t smell rotten or anything, just stronger.
 
Yes Corky’s poop began to be smellier after he started insulin, I personally never asked why, but then I realized that is probably since diabetes damages the pancreas that that can be a reason, I truly changed litters since he was diagnosed I buy the Pretty Litter it stills smells as soon as he pops,, but whatever wonder that litter does, it petrifies it within seconds and the smell is almost gone, I’m home all the time soon as soon as I don’t smell it I clean the box, but yeah really strong smell, and again it can be the insulin, I never thought about it
 
What are you feeding your cat? Once I switched to a low carb diet, the issue with smelly poop was nonexistent. I have two nondiabetic cats now. They both eat a high protein, low carb diet. There's no noxious odor from their poop.
 
Sienne and Gabby (GA) said:
What are you feeding your cat? Once I switched to a low carb diet, the issue with smelly poop was nonexistent. I have two nondiabetic cats now. They both eat a high protein, low carb diet. There's no noxious odor from their poop.
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I am feeding my cat the hills prescription diet of dry food. I did have him on the fancy feast classic pate, but he has rejected it. I have unopened containers that I need to use up somehow before I get any new ones. Clover has done this a multiuide of times. He does not like his food mixed. So with him eating the dry food, he drinks lots of water, too.
 
I hate to tell you but the prescription dry food is high in carbs. If you read the ingredients, you'll see that it contains carbs which is probably the source of the odoriferous poop. You want to feed your kitty a diet that's less than 10% carbs. We have food charts with the carbs listed. I've linked one. Most dry food is high in carbs.
 
I know the prescription dry food is high in carbs, but he won’t eat anything else. Use rather him eat the high carb diet than starve to death.
 
to transition from dry to wet food is a slow process, every time you feed you take away a bit of the dry and mix a tsp at a time of the wet, are you home testing? it is important to test during this transition are you giving insulin ? what dose? the best insulin for cats are Lantus and ProZinc they are a 12 hour insulin and easy on the cat, and testing before each shot, you do not want to give insulin if you do not know the glucose level to avoid hypoglycemia, most member use the ReliOn human monitor and strips (Walmart) you do not need an expensive Pet meter, we are very numbers oriented, to help you in this journey, and so we can all be on the same page we would like you to create your signature and spreadsheet, links below, keep posting, we are here for you ;) 🤗

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I use prozinc and I am giving him 2.5 units. I would transition him slowly but he does not like mixing food. However, I have not tried mixing a tsp at a time. I will try that and see what happens. If he still doesn't take the wet food, it might be because when he was eating the wet food I gave him the shot while eating. Thus resulting in him associating the wet food and the shot. It is hard to try to make the shot a positive experience now that he has gotten annoyed with it.
 
with ProZinc is important that you give the 2 main meals and several small meals during the day, you want to test 2 hours after each shot, that's when ProZinc hits the system, the protocol for ProZinc are TEST, FEED, SHOOT, you might want to review Corky's spreadsheet, he's on ProZinc, scroll the SS to the left, till you see remarks, you can get an idea what he eats, how much and the times, he feeds at 6:00am, shot, snack at 8:00 Am very important, then at 1:00 PM , 6:00PM, shot feed, and last meal at 10:00PM , do not feed any later than that, I do not give dosing advice but I will tag a member that can, also I shoot Corky while he has eaten several bites of food, I just go behind him, pick up the scrub, and shoot down, he will not notice. you did not mention that you are home testing, when you have the time please open the links I posted for you,
@Suzanne & Darcy
 
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