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    Black stool with tar like texture in a normally healthy cat?

    He got better in 3 days after I changed his diet a little bit. I switched him over to 80% canned food mixed with 20% lightly boiled chicken thighs, stirred up with added water. I mix all this up in a big metal bowl and feed him 3 times daily. His stool went from solid, normal shaped, but black...
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    Black stool with tar like texture in a normally healthy cat?

    Chicken gizzards, thighs, and hearts all have taurine in them. Raw obviously has the most. The length of time that you boil them determines how much is lost. I don't think I boiled out 2/3 of the taurine content, I'd say more like 2/5 as it was a light boil. I wish I could afford to go to a...
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    Black stool with tar like texture in a normally healthy cat?

    I just discovered that chicken hearts have large amounts of taurine in them and are all around great sources of nutrients for cats. I think the reason my cat was having black tar stool was from eating pure diet of rough textured chicken gizzards and hearts. I never really felt those little...
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    Black stool with tar like texture in a normally healthy cat?

    My cat didn't cover his stool and I noticed it looked like black tar. I was medium sized, not small like which can sometimes be seen in raw fed cats. I didn't notice the smell as I covered my nose with my shirt when I went to put litter over it. I read that I could be a sign of stomach or upper...
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