Reasons for diarrhea ?

darkrabbit213 · Posted: Sun Jul 09, 2006 4:15 pm Post subject: Reasons for diarrhea ?

I've been feeding Winks a different kind of wet food, we switched from Friskies kitten to Whiskas, and he's been having diarrhea and producing more stools lately. I know that Whiskas probably isn't the best wet food, but there's not a lot of choices where I live, and he was having an allergic reaction to the Max Cat i was feeding him. I didn't know if it was the food or if there was something else that could have caused it...

Mary_NH · Posted: Sun Jul 09, 2006 6:00 pm Post subject:

did you switch over gradually/
sometimes they will get runny stools if you just switch. I usually try offering a little of the new with the old slowly eliminating the old food and adding more of the new
and yes - you can buy better than Whiskas. Even Fancy Feast (most of the time easily found) is better.
also WalMart is now carrying a better wet food - Natural Life it is called and has good ingredients.
My cats won't touch it (of course) but my fosters usually enjoy it.

darkrabbit213 · Posted: Sun Jul 09, 2006 6:55 pm Post subject:

i did switch over gradually, and he really likes the food, he eats it better than the other stuff i used to give him, which is why i stuck with it... but maybe he'd like fancy feast just as well...

it's kind of gross to listen to your cat fart...

Mr. Green

Mary_NH · Posted: Sun Jul 09, 2006 8:13 pm Post subject:

LOL and grosser yet SMELLING a cat fart Rolling Eyes

darkrabbit213 · Posted: Mon Jul 10, 2006 1:12 am Post subject:

haha

winks thinks is great fun to fart especially when there's company around

lynnhaz · Posted: Mon Jul 10, 2006 5:01 pm Post subject:

may be parasites, or bacteria like clostridium.

maybe get a stool sample done. might not have anything to do with the food itself....

allenysis · New member Joined: 15 Jul 2006 Posts: 5

we got a kitten when she was 4 weeks old and when we weened her we fed her whiskas wet kitten food. She loved it but it gave her really bad diarrhea. But like lynnhaz said she had a bacteria infection and needed and antibiotic. Afterwards we tried the same food again, but she wanted our older cats dry food. So we feed her purina kitten chow. Loves it more and the vets like it that we feed her that because it is not a rich as the other food.