Is Penny a bengal? What does she normally eat that is different from what Ginger and Ferris eat?
Digestion starts in the stomach, so I think "sensitive stomach" is a nicer way of saying "weak guts." It's relative.
Yes, she is a Bengal that I just adopted from another TCS member, Kai Bengals. She, along with Ferris and Ginger, are eating:
Yeah, I meant I hasn't able to find out if by "sensitive stomach" they meant that bengals are prone to throwing up or prone to loose stools or both. And if this is a breed trait then there should be a common cause and so a common solution and I'd like to know what it is.
Quite right, it would just be a temporary solution. Because your cat has had that condition for such a long period its hard to say if the stools would stay firm once you stop giving arrowroot. The longest I've seen a cat with loose motions was about six weeks and it got better, however that was a kitten of about 3 or 4 months old. Sometimes you just try things and they end up working, sometimes not.
Yes some bengals are prone to tummy issues...Originally Posted by mschauer
Yeah, I meant I hasn't able to find out if by "sensitive stomach" they meant that bengals are prone to throwing up or prone to loose stools or both. And if this is a breed trait then there should be a common cause and so a common solution and I'd like to know what it is.
This sounds exactly like my problem with Molly. The first day days we had her, her poops were orangey and stinky, but they had a shape, but after a week of being on Merrick canned, the smell went away and the color changed to a normal color. At the time, I didn't have the the funds to put her on a canned-only diet, so she went into the dry-only diet that my other two girls were on. Well, for the next year and a half, Molly had nothing but diarrhea, sometimes with blood in it, and the smell was God-Awful! It could melt steel! The diarrhea was sometimes so bad that it splattered onto the wall, though the best poos were pudding-like yet had a slight poo shape. I tried all kinds of kibble (the food that started the whole problems, the original kibble, was California Natural, and I tried Felidae (worked pretty well), Timberwolf Organics (worked really well), Innova, Innova EVO, and Orijen. Nothing worked. Finally, I thought, "to heck with it," and decided to try a RAW diet once and for all. I'd been considering it, seeing as how she smelled and acted like a normal kitty for the first week we had her, and I figured now would be as good a time as ever to venture into the world of Rawness (versus going with a canned-diet). Well, lemme tell you, the smells and the diarrhea cleared up right away, after the week of detox, that is. Her poops are now firmed (though not hard like Willow's is, but that's not a fair comparison: Willow could live on a diet of glass and still have hard poops) and there's hardly any smell to speak of. The whole family is just shocked! I've found out, too, that the RAW diet is cheaper than canned. When I switched Molly to RAW, I switched Willow as well, but since Buffy wouldn't touch raw meat, I compromised and put her on a canned diet, so I figured out the differences in the costs between the two types (Buffy is now on RAW and loving it)
Trying to swtich to an all wet diet after doing an elimination diet and determining that egg is a problem for Coco I think is where I went astray. She is pretty finicky and I had a hard time finding wet food that she would eat that didn't have egg. In trying different foods I believe I triggered the loose stool again by introduced another ingredient she has problems with but which wasn't in any of the foods I used during the elimination diet.
I'm not sure which post you are referring to. Coco never had incontinence or smelly poops.
I use a probiotic regardless of what I am feeding ... that is the common pet store or feed store one... my vet approves of it so I would say it is good
canned is good just find a good one that works for your babies...
Do you mean you just tried Wellness or that you tried Wellness plus a probiotic supplement?
Eukanuba low-res is what my vet first recommended. Didn't do a thing for Coco.
