Grain free causing blood in stool? Possible?

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My female cat Mango, has had bouts of on and off blood in stool. I was feeding her a grainfree dry food in a particular variety. Then I stopped and I switched her to Optimum for a change. From what I can remember, her stools went back to being mostly solid and no poop and she'd poop in the box. I just recently bought another bag of the first food I mentioned and now the blood in stool is back.

Is it even possible that a grainfree could be bad for Mango? It's just wierd because I thought I was doing the right thing :(

This is the list of ingredients in the grain free food;

Poultry Meal and Meat Meal, Poultry Tallow, Real Chicken Meat, Potato and Tapioca, Soybean Meal, Field Peas, Natural Flavours, Whole Canola and Linseed, Beet Pulp, Vegetable & Fish Oils (Sunflower, Linseed, Fish), Salt, Cranberries and Blueberries, Egg Powder, Cellulose Fibre, Potassium Chloride, Dried Chicory Root, Choline Chloride, Dried Brewers Yeast, Yucca Schidigera Extract, Di-calcium Phosphate, Methionine DL, Taurine, Soy Lecithin, Garlic Powder, Kelp Meal, Whey Powder, Potassium Sorbate, Carrots, Essential Vitamins (E, Niacin, Patothenic Acid, Thiamine, A, D, B2, B6, B12), Biotin, Folic Acid, K) and minerals (Iron, Zinc, Copper, Manganese, Iodine, Cobolt, Selenium), Alfalfa Powder, Beta Carotene, Dried Pineapple, Cinnamon, Natural antioxidants, Vitamin C, Parsley Flakes.

And the Optimum;

Poultry and poultry by-products, corn, cereal protein, pearl barley, tuna meal,poultry digest,beet pulp,salt, minerals(potassium chloride,zinc sulfate,ferrous sulfate, copper sulfate, potassium oxide) Vitamins(A, B1,B2,B3,B6,B9,B12,C,E and choline) methionine, taurine, antioxidants,inulin and yucca.
 
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My female cat Mango, has had bouts of on and off blood in stool. I was feeding her a grainfree dry food in a particular variety. Then I stopped and I switched her to Optimum for a change. From what I can remember, her stools went back to being mostly solid and no poop and she'd poop in the box. I just recently bought another bag of the first food I mentioned and now the blood in stool is back.

Is it even possible that a grainfree could be bad for Mango? It's just wierd because I thought I was doing the right thing :(

This is the list of ingredients in the grain free food;

Poultry Meal and Meat Meal, Poultry Tallow, Real Chicken Meat, Potato and Tapioca, Soybean Meal, Field Peas, Natural Flavours, Whole Canola and Linseed, Beet Pulp, Vegetable & Fish Oils (Sunflower, Linseed, Fish), Salt, Cranberries and Blueberries, Egg Powder, Cellulose Fibre, Potassium Chloride, Dried Chicory Root, Choline Chloride, Dried Brewers Yeast, Yucca Schidigera Extract, Di-calcium Phosphate, Methionine DL, Taurine, Soy Lecithin, Garlic Powder, Kelp Meal, Whey Powder, Potassium Sorbate, Carrots, Essential Vitamins (E, Niacin, Patothenic Acid, Thiamine, A, D, B2, B6, B12), Biotin, Folic Acid, K) and minerals (Iron, Zinc, Copper, Manganese, Iodine, Cobolt, Selenium), Alfalfa Powder, Beta Carotene, Dried Pineapple, Cinnamon, Natural antioxidants, Vitamin C, Parsley Flakes.

And the Optimum;

Poultry and poultry by-products, corn, cereal protein, pearl barley, tuna meal,poultry digest,beet pulp,salt, minerals(potassium chloride,zinc sulfate,ferrous sulfate, copper sulfate, potassium oxide) Vitamins(A, B1,B2,B3,B6,B9,B12,C,E and choline) methionine, taurine, antioxidants,inulin and yucca.
The grain free food has a LOT more ingredients than the other one, and any one ingredient can cause a reaction in a cat.  Grain free doesn't mean a whole lot medically, but it sure looks nice on a label.  I would go back to the other food and see if it improves.  If it does, then stick with what works and not with what doesn't.  If it doesn't improve see a vet.
 
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Yeah I've put it away. With my other cat on royal canin SO for urinary issues, I'm trying to find a food that isn't utter garbage for her that is readily available in a supermarket. I've thought of ditching dry food for her but then she gets into the royal canin! I guess I will have to read the label of a few foods so that she can have dry food when my other cat has his SO food.
 

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One of my cats cannot tolerate a completely grain free diet.  For him, it produces very soft stools, no blood, but almost diarrhea like conditions.  We have to give him a prescription dry food (Royal Canin Gastrointestinal HE) and that firms things up.  He's still 95% grain-free, but we do have to have some grains in his diet for him.
 

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Lot of humans can't eat pineapple.  Tapioca seems like a pretty useless carbohydrate, but it's probably cheap.  Why give a cat soy anything?  There are so many ingredients in the food, it could be any of them.  I can't give my cats any commercial food without them getting diarrhea and vomiting.  Our vet didn't think much of royal canin, but she's a holistic vet.  Good luck.
 
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It's been 2 days now and I haven't found any bloody pooop anywhere. I'm trying her on purina indoor food. The ingredients of that is;

Wholegrain cereals and/or cereal by-products; meat and meat by-products (chicken, beef and/or lamb) and/or poultry by-products; vegetable proteins; natural fibres (including yucca extract); minerals, vitamins and amino acids (including, potassium chloride and/or phosphoric acid, sodium chloride and/or calcium carbonate; vitamin E, zinc sulphate, ferrous sulphate, niacin, copper sulphate, manganous oxide, pantothenic acid, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, vitamin A, pyridoxine hydrochloride, folic acid, vitamin D3, potassium iodide, cobalt carbonate, sodium selenite, vitamin B12; choline chloride; taurine and/or methionine); natural flavours; garlic, rosemary plant extract.

Hmm, maybe I should go back to the Optimum, it seems like  it has way less garbage in it!
 
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