Attitude and poop

taryn

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Attitude appears well but her fur keeps getting dirty and it looks like she's having loose poops, I'm not finding any diarrhea in the box so I'm wondering if it's just poop getting stuck in her long butt fur or if she really is having loose poops or diarrhea. I clean her butt up and then she gets dirty again. I'm also wondering if it's just because she isn't grooming back there because she's fat and lazy. I will sometimes find small pieces of normal poop stuck on her rear in the stains. It's about once a week at most that I have to clean her. Not sure if it's a daily thing with the loose poops since I let her go up to a week without cleaning her(she also doesn't always allow me to look back there because she knows what happens when I do but it doesn't seem to get any worse if I don't clean her immediately.)

Should I see if changing her food helps or should I take her to the vet? This has been happening for months so she isn't sick, she's as fat and happy as ever, I'm just sick of having to clean her rear end up I'm about ready to shave her entire rear end bald. She doesn't like baths or me cleaning her back there(with waterless shampoo but she needs a full bath at the moment, her fur is starting to look discolored all over) so that only adds to the fun. I'm just wondering if a change in food(gradually obviously) might help because she might not be handling the NB like she used to. She has never gone outside the box and like I said I have never found diarrhea in the box so I'm just wondering if it's just her fur.

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OK finished the bath. It does seem more like staining(but it is stiff so I know there is something there) and every time I do it I do have to physically pick out small pieces of poop as well as clean up the area around it. Crap need to part the hair on her rear end or I'm going to have a mess. It comes clean really easy and the pieces are easy to pick out once I have her shampooed either with the waterless or full bath.

I just hate bathing her, especially full baths, Nuts bites her so hard she cries after baths (he used to do it regularly but she finally let him know she wasn't going to put up with it but she doesn't stand up for herself after baths) I guess he doesn't like the way she smells, in other words she doesn't smell like Attitude anymore. It's weird though he only does it while she's wet, he quits once she's dry. BTW- timeouts don't work, Nuts goes back to biting her if she's still wet the second I let him out of the bathroom. Forgot about that until I released her from being towel dried so she could start trying to dry herself off.

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I was actually going to suggest trimming or buzzing her rear quarters just to see if the stains continue afterwards.

My MIL's Papillons have long foofy hair, they also tend to have stains or dingle berries like you described. Their poops are normal, they just seem to get messy sometimes, and eventually, they get their butts shaved (like once a year) b'c the FIL gets sick of cleaning the poop out.

(I also shave my dogs butt, but its part of her groom anyways, otherwise she gets dingle berries too, and she hates scissors by her rear end)
 

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It's not an unusual circumstance with longer haired cats. My Archie gets crusties and I have to wash him back there - I use baby shampoo. I need to get him what's called a sanitary shave- where that back part IS shaved down to fuzz... but it grows back pretty quick, so I need to invest in clippers and learn to do it myself w/o cutting his skin.
 
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