I apologise if this has been covered already a number of times, but I couldn't find anything with a few searches. You wouldn't, by the way, realise how many posts on these forums turn up with the search "smell". Maybe that says something about our feline friends.
We took in a five-month-old kitten just before Christmas, and in spite of our best efforts couldn't find anyone missing him. This is not unusual, as this area has a lot of stray cats. Since it was cold outside, the shelters didn't want him, and he had clearly chosen us (he kept sleeping outside of our front door until we took him in), we decided to adopt him. After the vet pronounced him healthy we proceeded to properly introduce him to our somewhat protesting 3-year-old queen. To my great surprise, after a couple of days the two became buddies, and they now play together, and sleep next to each other.
The newcomer, however, has one rather distinct quality -- smell. It is not that his coat would smell, and even the breath smell is manageable (apparently it will get better after the baby teeth come out). There is just rather often that very distinct poo smell emanating from him. Well, the bottom part of him, to be more exact. And his poo smells on a level totally different from our older cat. This one could be used in chemical weapons.
It may be that because he has long black hair something we can't see gets stuck when he uses the litter. His bottom itself seems clean. I also thought that he might be passing wind, but the smell lingers about longer than that (or maybe he is a biological gas factory).
Save for the idea of hanging one of those "Little Tree" car air fresheners on his tail, I don't really know what to do. Does anyone have any suggestions?
And do you think it could be food or health related? One idea I have is that his stomach might not yet be quite accustomed to the type of food we feed him. We have also been forced to feed him some adult cat food, as we ran out of the kitten brand sooner than we thought. I am also thinking of taking him to the vet again for this, just to make sure.
We took in a five-month-old kitten just before Christmas, and in spite of our best efforts couldn't find anyone missing him. This is not unusual, as this area has a lot of stray cats. Since it was cold outside, the shelters didn't want him, and he had clearly chosen us (he kept sleeping outside of our front door until we took him in), we decided to adopt him. After the vet pronounced him healthy we proceeded to properly introduce him to our somewhat protesting 3-year-old queen. To my great surprise, after a couple of days the two became buddies, and they now play together, and sleep next to each other.
The newcomer, however, has one rather distinct quality -- smell. It is not that his coat would smell, and even the breath smell is manageable (apparently it will get better after the baby teeth come out). There is just rather often that very distinct poo smell emanating from him. Well, the bottom part of him, to be more exact. And his poo smells on a level totally different from our older cat. This one could be used in chemical weapons.
It may be that because he has long black hair something we can't see gets stuck when he uses the litter. His bottom itself seems clean. I also thought that he might be passing wind, but the smell lingers about longer than that (or maybe he is a biological gas factory).
Save for the idea of hanging one of those "Little Tree" car air fresheners on his tail, I don't really know what to do. Does anyone have any suggestions?
And do you think it could be food or health related? One idea I have is that his stomach might not yet be quite accustomed to the type of food we feed him. We have also been forced to feed him some adult cat food, as we ran out of the kitten brand sooner than we thought. I am also thinking of taking him to the vet again for this, just to make sure.
