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gottabuylots asked in PetsCats · 1 decade ago

Cat with bowel trouble?

My cat (he's 12) started off a few months ago being constipated and having very hard but light weight stool, he would go all over the house like a rabbit. Sometimes it had blood on it. We took him to the vet and the vet thought he probably was swallowing too much hair and that was causing the trouble. So we started giving him a hair ball remedy and he did pretty good for a few months.

Now this week he has started having diarrhea all over the house. He seems perfectly healthy other wise but obviously this can't continue. I will try giving him some plain yogurt over the weekend to see if that helps and if not I will take him to the vet on Monday. Does anyone know what could be wrong with him?

Update:

The vet said blood was from being constipated and fissures, there is no blood in his stool now. Plain yogurt is fine for cats, it is low in lactose unlike milk. Now does anyone have some real help for me? I just want to know what kind of problem we could possibly be looking at here.....

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  • Ken
    Lv 6
    1 decade ago
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    HI

    Stop feeding dry foods and the proble will go away.

    Nutrition since there are so many bad things out there is very important to your cat’s health

    Contrary to what you may have heard; dry foods are not a great thing to feed a cat.

    Please read the label on what you are feeding? What are the ingredients? Do you know what they mean? Is the first ingredient a muscle meat like chicken or is it meal or other things?

    http://www.catinfo.org/#Learn_How_To_Rea...

    Dry foods are the number 1 cause of diabetes in cats as well as being a huge contributing factor to kidney disease, obesity, crystals, u.t.i’s and a host of other problems. Food allergies are very common when feeding dry foods. Rashes, scabs behind the tail and on the chin are all symptoms

    The problems associated with Dry food is that they are loaded with carbohydrates which many cats (carnivores) cannot process them. Also, Most of the moisture a cat needs is suppose to be in the food but in

    Dry, 95% of it is zapped out of dry foods in the processing. Another thing, most use horrible ingredients and don't use a muscle meat as the primary ingredient and use vegetable based protein versus animal. Not good for an animal that has to eat meat to survive.

    You want to pick a canned food w/o gravy (gravy=carbs) that uses a muscle meat as the first ingredient and doesn't have corn at least in the first 3 ingredients if at all. Fancy feast is a middle grade food with 9lives, friskies whiskas lower grade canned and wellness and merrick upper grade human quality foods. The optimum food to feed cats has no grains whatsoever, cats have no use for them and many have trouble processing them as well as the carbs. IBD is another disease that is rapidly becoming common amoung cats because of the inappropriate diets being fed.

    Also, dry food is not proven to be better for teeth. Does a hard pretzel clean your teeth or do pieces of it get stuck? http://www.felinefuture.com/nutrition/bp...

    Please read about cat nutrition.

    http://www.newdestiny.us/nutritionbasics...

    http://www.catinfo.org/feline_obesity.ht...

    http://maxshouse.com/feline_nutrition.ht...

  • Laurie
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    Remember, no milk products. Feed him small amounts at a time so his intentional tract has time to settle down. Ask the vet for a blood work up and stool culture. Something has caused your senior cat to have these problems, one being age but a remedy should not be hard to find. You may need to change his food to one for sensitive systems.

  • ?
    Lv 4
    1 decade ago

    Don't give him any dairy foods, cats don't digest them very well and might cause diarrhea. He needs to see a vet and bring a stool sample to be checked. Blood in the stool is not good, something is wrong with his bowel system.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    I agree with Ken, in fact i recommend the same exact site http://www.catinfo.org/ which will teach you about feline nutrition and help open your eyes about it. good luck!

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