Kitten, mushy poo, not diarrhea

vivwraith

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I've recently switched a kitten onto a mostly wet diet using natural balance, blue, fancy feast chicken classic, basically anything with as many natural ingredients as I can read and afford. I'm going to be purchasing Evo canned food but haven't yet. He was eating dry food since he started eating solids and I slowly incorporated the wet food and he doesn't seem to be picky about any of it. Before I did any serious research I had a couple friskies cans I gave him and would say he probably had that for about maybe a week. I alternated between the wet and the dry when feeding him. I'd put the wet out with the dry food and he'd eat both. Not a whole can just part of it since he'd also eat the dry. His poop was fine a couple days after I got him. Dark brown, hard etc etc. As of a couple days it's been more mushy and yellowish and I'm kind of a paranoid person so I'm thinking it'd be the diet since I went to the vet about two weeks ago and his stool sample was fine. He was in fine health. The only thing I've switched is feeding more wet food and I'm switching to wet completely. It doesn't seem like he's in pain when he goes and he does hide it so it's harder to distinguish from the clumped pee puddle left behind. Just a bit of a pain when it gets on his paws and he runs around with poopy paws before I can catch him to clean him off. Do I just wait this out? He's only like 12 or 13 weeks old. I read that their stomachs can just be in shock after changing food but it's okay to change between wet foods but not dry.

I'm just hoping I'll have to clean up after him constantly for a little while longer or I'll go sick with worrying. Figured I'd wait a week or two and switch him to completely wet food and see how it gets.
 

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For a young kitten it's probably best NOT to switch up foods too much as their tummies are still getting used to things and some foods can actually be too rich (Evo particularly).  I would find a good canned  Kitten Food and stick with that for right now and see if that helps.   I read that a yellowish stool can be indicative of bacterial imbalance in the gut, so you might add a probiotic to his food also.  I give my guys the same one WE humans take, a full capsule per day, 1/2 in the morning and 1/2 at night.  For a kitten,though, you might want to start with a smaller dose and work up. 
 
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