Advice on diet & loose stools

[Linus&friends]

Hi there,

I'm looking for some advice about a cat I have recently adopted. He is a ten month old neutered male named Lupin.

When I got Lupin, nearly two weeks ago, he was on a terrible diet - dry Go Cat & nothing else I immediately switched him over to two pouches of Hilife (60% meat wet food) & a couple of small handfuls of Applaws dry food per days, which he is loving. I know I should have done it gradually, but I couldn't bear to give him any more Go Cat.

My problem is that his stools are pretty loose & often very smelly (the smell actually once woke me up in the middle of the night!) I have no idea if this is related to his sudden change in diet, or something else. I was under the impression that I was feeding him the best food within the limits of money & practicality, but am concerned I am somehow making a mistake. From what I remember, his stools were not this bad to start with.

Does anybody have any ideas, things for me to try etc?

[WhiteKitties]

Fergie couldn't handle it when I tried to double the girls' wet food suddenly. She had some very long, drawn-out, very human sounding gas incidents that were very entertaining, except that they were followed by very smelly loose poop. Because of that, I put them back on their 2 dry meals, 1 wet meal diet for about a week. Then I changed one of their dry meals to a 50/50 split for about three weeks - they got a half portion of wet food followed by a half portion of dry food. After doing that for a while I made the meal a straight wet food meal and they were fine. So they now get two wet food meals a day and one dry meal split into a morning and evening 'snack' and they're doing great. Don't feel like you have to immediately take your cat off of all dry food - switching him gradually is fine as well, and if he doesn't tolerate all wet you can supplement with a high quality dry. I give mine Wellness Core dry, which they love, and I could never eliminate it because after three days of all wet food Fern stops eating completely until I bring out the dry again.