Reddish (with mucus?) soft stools in cats.

Hello. I'm concerned about my 2 cats and the way their stool look like: they're on raw food diet for about 11 months now and recently, in the last month or so, I noticed at first ( once or twice) a tiny amount of bright red blood outside the stool- knowing they're a bit constipated at times I thought that was the reason- so, I start increasing the amount of whole psyllium husk and more water on their diet; then the stools got softer and have more volume but they look half dry and half reddish with what looks to me mucus? with a foul smell. Not quite sure if that color reddish is normal because of the psyllium...maybe? or because it's blood! Cats are acting normal: playing, eating and using their litterbox (defecating) pretty much once daily. Wonder if I sould just take a fecal sample to the vet....

P.s.: we recently moved and I always thought that the stress of selling a house, a couple of hours trip in the car and move into a new house could cause some intestinal issues but not sure anymore. It has been a bit over a month now since we moved .

Does anybody noticed similar stools as I described above on their own cats?

Thanks.

Well, I'll tell ya, my cats are on raw, and their poop has absolutely NO smell at all.  You probably noticed that before, right?  No smell?  Do you make your own raw food mixture, or buy commercial, or what?  (wondering if you have a recipe that calls for the whole psyllium husk.  When mine seem to be slightly constipated, I increase the amount of pure meat, which, in turn, decreases the amount of bone.  That usually solves the problem.  Plus I give them Egg yolk Lecithin.

BUT, all that being said, it seems to me there is a problem because that just isn't normal for a cat on raw.  You might want to post this on the Raw Forum to see what the more experienced raw feeders think, since I am pretty new to it.  It's a sub-forum under Cat Nutrition.

I saw your post in the raw forum and responded. But for people reading this thread here, I suspect the problem is the psyllium husk. Calcium controls the water content of stool in the colon, and in raw fed diets, it's usually an issue of too much or too little calcium, as Sally described. Increasing the amount of meat lowers the Calciumhosphorus ratio by increasing phosphorus content (lowering the amount of calcium per phosphorus), and solves the problem of dry, crumbly stool.

The foul smell is because of the fermenting fiber (psyllium husk).