Wet Food Only and Smelly Cat Poop

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I am new to the board and my kitty (Babo) was diagnosed in late September with diabetes. Before she was diagnosed, we had already started supplementing her diet with canned cat food to help with constipation issues that were actually a side effect of the diabetes. Now that she only eats canned cat food, specifically Fancy Feast Classics (all on the approved listing on this board), her poop is soft, large and smells horrible. She's always passed large stools and when she was receiving enemas, the vets were shocked how large her stool was and the quantity she was producing. I'm thrilled that now that she is on insulin (1/2 cc twice per day) she doesn't need enemas anymore, but am wondering is this normal? We have invested in a lot of candles, World's Best Cat Litter, and other fragrance items to help with the smell, but they are all temporary. Has anyone else noticed that with the switch to canned cat food their cat is producing smelly, larger stools? If so, have you found canned cat foods that have helped decrease the smell?

Thank you for any suggestions!
 
Try adding a good probiotic to her diet. It could be that her tummy is still not quite used to the canned food.
 
Okay, thank you. I'll try giving her a probiotic. She was taking a liquid one that was mixed with her food - salmon oil, but it just made her poop and her breath smell pretty bad. I stopped at a boutique pet store down the road and they have a powdered version, so I'm going to try that. Her fructose levels were perfect when she was last checked by the vet, so we don't want to try supplementing dry food and honestly, she seems to prefer the wet. We have two other kitties that eat dry and she doesn't try to steal their food. Thank you for your help!
 
Salmon oil isn't a probiotic. Though it is good to give because of its anti inflammatory properties. It tends to go bad fairly quickly, so you don't want to buy a bottle of it. You want to look for the individual salmon oil capsules.

A good probiotic many of us use on here is FortiFlora. Your vet should carry it, and you can get it without a prescription through many online pet websites.
 
BaboF said:
We have two other kitties that eat dry and she doesn't try to steal their food.
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Hello,

A quick comment here...have you considered getting ALL of your cats off of the species-INappropriate diet of dry food *before* they end up with the various illnesses caused by this type of diet?

Please don't take that comment as being harsh because many of us fed dry food before we became 'enlightened' regarding how a cat is designed to eat.

Please see my Feeding Your Cat: Know the Basics of Feline nutrition AND....please see the Urinary Tract Health page and read at least the first paragraph AND...look at Opie's pictures. Both articles are linked below.

After looking at Opie's pictures, I would be hard pressed to understand why/how anybody could feed dry food to a species with a low thirst drive.

And...of course...there is the issue of carb-overloading a species not designed to eat high carb diets.

And....the issue of ALL dry foods being cooked at extremely high temperatures - altering every nuance of the diet.

And...the issue of most dry food being predominantly plant-based proteins vs animal-base.

One last comment...as Kelly mentioned, salmon oil is not a probiotic. Also, be very careful with just picking up any "probiotic" from a store. Most probiotics are complete scams...not having any live organisms....not having enough organisms....and not having the organisms listed on the label even in the product....and some are not targeted for the cat's acidic gut tract.

Most over-the-counter probiotics are a complete waste of money.
 
Our Moggy has been having more wet than dry food the last week or so and . . . yeah . . . worlds stinkiest poop ever. I figure it's a small price to pay for him having food that's better for him.
 
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