Sensitive stomach?

[cey0219@hotmail.com]

My 17-week-old Persian/Turkish Angora kitty, Pia, is having some stool issues. When she first came home (about a month ago), she was having soft stool, occasionally with blood. I was worried and took her to the vet and got her stool examined, but the vet said that she was perfectly fine. (They did prescribe her with medicine for her diarrhea to feed for a week, which seemed to help her stool harden up.) She had her first deworming medicine a couple of weeks ago and is scheduled for her next one within the next week or two.

Anyway, for a while, her stool was fine. Then within the past week, she had softer stool (not runny), which was kind of annoying because she would step on them and track poop all over the house and also get them on her behind. This evening, she had stool that was soft with a little bit of blood on it. When I looked at her behind to clean her up, it seemed like the blood was coming from the butt/rectum, not from the inside. This is the same symptom she had from before when I took her to the vet and they told me she was fine. I'm wondering if it is because she has a sensitive stomach, and I should probably try switching it to a formula for sensitive stomach? I'm currently feeding her Friskies because that's what she had at her first home - I was thinking about gradually switching to Wellness, but now I'm thinking maybe I should switch to Natural Balance?

FYI, her sister, Lumi, has no stomach issues whatsoever with the same diet.

Any advice?

-cey0219

[doodlebug]

What medicine did they prescribe? Giardia and coccidia are 2 parasites that are often very difficult to detect in a stool test. They require different meds, so if one didn't do it, the other may. In addition, sometimes both of these parasites can be difficult to get rid of and require more than one course of meds.

If it's not a parasite, a food change could help, Friskies is about the worst there is. Go very slowly though as the better foods are significantly richer and may cause an upset tummy if you go too fast. I would not recommend Wellness kitten food, I've heard lots of people say that they've had digestive issues with it. If you're taking about going to one of the NB limited ingredient diets, I wouldn't jump right to that. They're great foods for cats that nothing else works for, but I'd try a regular high quality food before going to something hypoallergenic. I'd go for a fish free wet food.

[cey0219@hotmail.com]

Thanks! Any recommendations on the brands?