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So I brought Emmy home on Thursday afternoon so I've had her for about 4 and a half days at this point. This morning she started having really bad diarrhea. Like (not to be too detailed), but we could hear her going and it smelled awful! I had to wash her paws after. Then she went again tonight and she needed another bath (feet and bum) and had tracked it a few places.
I only got a small bag of her dry food at the shelter and a few cans of wet when I brought her home so I stopped and got a different kind of food (the shelter had her on Hill's Science Diet Healthy Development, I got Blue Buffalo Healthy Growth Kitten Chicken & Brown Rice). I mixed a little bit (probably a handful) of the dry into her dry food bowl and gave her some wet food last night and again this morning (a spoonful each time of which she ate probably three-forths of).
In hindsight I should have kept with the Science Diet until she was more adjusted to here. I know stress can cause diarrhea. So I've taken all of the Blue Buffalo out of her bowls and am not going to be giving her the Blue Buffalo wet food until she gets cleared up.
My question is - is it more likely it is stress causing this? Or the change in food (I was trying to do it very gradually)?
I only got a small bag of her dry food at the shelter and a few cans of wet when I brought her home so I stopped and got a different kind of food (the shelter had her on Hill's Science Diet Healthy Development, I got Blue Buffalo Healthy Growth Kitten Chicken & Brown Rice). I mixed a little bit (probably a handful) of the dry into her dry food bowl and gave her some wet food last night and again this morning (a spoonful each time of which she ate probably three-forths of).
In hindsight I should have kept with the Science Diet until she was more adjusted to here. I know stress can cause diarrhea. So I've taken all of the Blue Buffalo out of her bowls and am not going to be giving her the Blue Buffalo wet food until she gets cleared up.
My question is - is it more likely it is stress causing this? Or the change in food (I was trying to do it very gradually)?