Hi all! I'm new here, but this seemed like a great place to get ideas and answers that other sites aren't forthcoming with.
Anywho, I've recently adopted a new little guy, Toulouse (he's got short legs
). He's about 8 months old, and was a stray living next to an abusive household for the first 7 months of his life. He was very shy and didn't know what to think of people at first, but he's really warmed up and loves to sleep and play with me.
The first day he was with me, he had normal bowel movements, but he soon started having soft stool and diarrhea and farting a bit, and he barfed up a LARGE quantity of food. I think the food i initially had him on didn't agree with him, plus the stress of going from stray to animal hospital to me, and the fact that he WOLFS everything down as fast as possible, were wreaking havoc on his insides. I got him on some better food (eagle-pack?), give him small portions throughout the day, and gave him distilled water to drink in hopes of getting rid of it.
We've been together now about 5 weeks and he has his good days and his bad days, poop-wise. One day he'll have solid, well formed stool, albeit stinky and soft, and the next he'll literally be making noxious puddles in his litterbox
I'm not really sure what to do, I can't seem to pinpoint a cause and I've never run up against this with cats before. On two separate days he also had little dry heaves and several hours later barfed up, though not a lot of material. I've called the vet where I adopted him and brought in stool and barf samples, and thankfully hes physically fine (no worms or parasites) They said to more or less keep an eye on him and if it continues to take him in for a checkup.
Whats most distressing about it, is that he's very thorough in the litter box! If he can smell anything at all, he'll keep digging until it's covered to his standards. I hear him in there for more than 5 minutes sometimes. But the liquid poo doesn't really clump and the more he tries to cover it, the more it breaks up and gets spread around. I can tell it's frustrating him, especially if he gets a paw in it, and it's very difficult to keep his box clean because of it.
If it's not worms/parasites, and he's got manageable portions, better food, and he's much more comfortable with me and his surroundings, then whats making my poor little guy take two steps back everytime he succeeds in the litter box ??
how can I help him through this?
Anywho, I've recently adopted a new little guy, Toulouse (he's got short legs
The first day he was with me, he had normal bowel movements, but he soon started having soft stool and diarrhea and farting a bit, and he barfed up a LARGE quantity of food. I think the food i initially had him on didn't agree with him, plus the stress of going from stray to animal hospital to me, and the fact that he WOLFS everything down as fast as possible, were wreaking havoc on his insides. I got him on some better food (eagle-pack?), give him small portions throughout the day, and gave him distilled water to drink in hopes of getting rid of it.
We've been together now about 5 weeks and he has his good days and his bad days, poop-wise. One day he'll have solid, well formed stool, albeit stinky and soft, and the next he'll literally be making noxious puddles in his litterbox
Whats most distressing about it, is that he's very thorough in the litter box! If he can smell anything at all, he'll keep digging until it's covered to his standards. I hear him in there for more than 5 minutes sometimes. But the liquid poo doesn't really clump and the more he tries to cover it, the more it breaks up and gets spread around. I can tell it's frustrating him, especially if he gets a paw in it, and it's very difficult to keep his box clean because of it.
If it's not worms/parasites, and he's got manageable portions, better food, and he's much more comfortable with me and his surroundings, then whats making my poor little guy take two steps back everytime he succeeds in the litter box ??