Hello! I'm Darren & my mixed-siameses are Cassie, Morty & Gertie

I love my Siamese-ish cats. I have Mortimer, he looks like a blue-point but had a Russian blue daddy & chocolate point mom. Morty is 8yrs old. I also have Cassie, she's a stripey pointed senior kitty that I adopted about 2 years ago when my oldest kitty passed away. I also have Gertrude, she's not sure what she is! She's 6 months old, has stripey points, siamese colored calico feet & blue eyes ringed with green. Gertie also has horrible 'cat flatulence'. She's a smelly gal! This is why I joined this site- I need advice about probiotics. I rescued Gertie & she has all the behaviors of a kitty that was weaned much too early. She 'nurses' & as I said....she has worse gas than a dog! Can probiotics help her tummy & if so, what probiotics should I give her? Thanks so much for any advice ya'll can give us.

love-

Darren, Cassie, Morty & Gertie 

Welcome! If you post your question under health or nutrition, I'm sure that you will get excellent responses to your questions. Best wishes!

Hello Darren...welcome to TCS!

Please ....share us some pics of your babies!

We love cat pictures :-)

OH, by all means we must have piccys of teh kittehs.  We love photos of the furbabies.

You'll find a world of help here, information as well as support when needed.  Prowl the forums, you many find that your questions are already answered.  I've recently (yeah, I'm a little slow) discovered that the "search" function is a huge help, especially in the forum on health.  Most of the others, I just prowl. 

I had a lovely silver-tabby point Siamese tomkitty named Tora Hihu, which I was told is Japanese for "Tiger Fart."  Hummmm...Hihu or Hohi.  This was 22 years ago. I've forgotten both the name, and my VERY limited Japanese.

Welcome ...

I hope that you were able to get some help for Gertie!

We're working on it Everyone seems to think it's a diet thing, but I think it's an enzyme thing w/her guts. I keep getting advice for 'wet-food', but Siamese cats need dry food to scrub their teeth when they chew, they're prone to plaque build up more than other breeds. Gertie drinks lots of water anyway. All of my 3 kitties do. She was smelly when I first brought her into my home & who knows what she'd been eating before!

I added some Gertie pics

Awesome! Where did you post the pics of Gertie? [emoji]128008[/emoji][emoji]9786[/emoji]

I just posted a couple more, guess they're on my profile? Feel free to move copies to other places

I went to your profile, and your cats are beautiful and so healthy looking! Im glad that you were able to get help for Gertie too!

Welcome to the cat site.  We had a siamese mix, and prior to her getting sick we fed a dry food diet.  She never had smelly gas, but did end up dieing of chronic renal failure... at the end, she could only eat wet food.  I think it doesn't hurt to give them a diet of both.  Our current cat has many tummy and skin issues, so we have to work hard to find a diet that agreed with her.  When we adopted our Ragdoll, she had BAD smelly gas... not just gas even.. she just smelled bad, and had a really red but, but a few months on the same diet as snowy is on and she smell lovely and her but is not all read anymore, so I think its definitely worth a try.  I know there are posters who go the probiotic route, so I am sure some of them will eventually weigh in.

Good luck to you and Gertie, and the others too.

Siamese-ish are easy to spoil   I went and looked on your profile and they are gorgeous.

I lost my old stripey Siamese tom cat to renal failure too, it's awful to watch. The worst part for me was that it was caused by a vet's medication that was carelessly scripted. By the time I got Sid to a new vet it was too late for him. That was a heartbreak I will never forget, makes me cry even now. I learned from that awful experience though, I will never blindly trust a vet ever again when my instincts tell me differently. I also have back-up vets to call now, just in case.

Yep, and thank goodness for Google!

Hello and welcome!

Sorry if I'm repeating anything in another thread.

Have you ruled out an allergy for the cause (or a contribution) of the flatulence smell? One of my guys has horrible horrible smelly gas and poos that smell like a death bomb if he gets food with wheat or corn in it but otherwise seems to have no issues. He also gets a sniffly nose and some eye gunk so it's pretty clearly an allergy in his case. Grain allergies are fairly common.