Hi!
I posted a long thread in cat health about one of my three cats having stomach issues on and off and now more consistent issues this week after I fed a friskies can of shreds containing wheat gluten. Ollie is 7 months old and has had on and off stomach issues. I've always fed my older cat blue buffalo dry and friskies wet to supplement and started feeding the kittens the same. Mostly problem free--few hiccups when kittens would eat dog food at my parents out etc but nothing major. My vet there originally said nothing to worry over, kitty is fine/looks healthy, etc. He has no parasites/worms, up to date on shots, etc.
This past week, all three kitties threw up after eating a friskies shred flavor they normally don't eat. I had blue buffalo chicken indoor and chicken kitten flavors mixed and thought maybe that was an issue. I replaced all of it with their normal food blue buffalo freedom chicken. Thea (7 mo old) and Shadow (13 years) have been perfectly fine since. Ollie however has alternating loose stools and sometimes outright diarrhea issues. Wednesday? I think.. he began puking up dry food within 15 minutes of eating it. After the friskies food incident, I went ahead and took the leap to change their wet food to higher quality food..I had been looking for a better food and just had not picked one yet. I got blue wilderness chicken--it has three primary ingredients, chicken, potato, flaxseed. I switched all three cats to nothing but the blue wilderness wet food. No more issues puking but still alternating loose stools for Ollie.
At this point, I have scheduled a vet appointment but it's not until next week. This is where I miss living in NC and having access to my regular vet--they literally would have just had me walk in the day I thought I had any problems but getting any sort of appointment with the vets where I am now is so much more difficult. Anyhow, this entire time Ollie has been fine aside from the tummy issues. He plays super hard, he drinks lots of water, his coat is great, he's bright eyed, etc. After talking it over with my mom, she and I thought maybe there wasn't enough fiber in the wet food alone so she helped me find a limited ingredient food with chicken as the base and I got that to try to supplement--Nature's Balance pea and chicken. Great--after today Shadow and Thea love it, Ollie's poo got a little more firm and he's nibbled on it all day on and off until tonight. Tonight he threw up mostly digested food--went and ate more dry before I put it up and then threw that up too. My mom says I'm worrying too much since Ollie seems otherwise fine but I feel helpless because I don't know what to do at this point. Could he have an intolrance to the peas? Pea and chicken were the only common ingredient in both the dry foods that caused issues. He can eat chicken wet food that has chicken/potato/flax in it seemingly fine but I still cannot get his stool to harden up. Am I just not giving the wet food only diet long enough to be effective for him? If it wasn't for the litter box, I really wouldn't think anything was wrong at all... so anyhow, any advice in the interim before he sees the vet would be appreciated...
Also, if it is a pea intolerance, is there dry kitty food that is gluten free without peas? Most of the "premium" brands I have checked so far all have peas/pea fibre/pea protein.
I posted a long thread in cat health about one of my three cats having stomach issues on and off and now more consistent issues this week after I fed a friskies can of shreds containing wheat gluten. Ollie is 7 months old and has had on and off stomach issues. I've always fed my older cat blue buffalo dry and friskies wet to supplement and started feeding the kittens the same. Mostly problem free--few hiccups when kittens would eat dog food at my parents out etc but nothing major. My vet there originally said nothing to worry over, kitty is fine/looks healthy, etc. He has no parasites/worms, up to date on shots, etc.
This past week, all three kitties threw up after eating a friskies shred flavor they normally don't eat. I had blue buffalo chicken indoor and chicken kitten flavors mixed and thought maybe that was an issue. I replaced all of it with their normal food blue buffalo freedom chicken. Thea (7 mo old) and Shadow (13 years) have been perfectly fine since. Ollie however has alternating loose stools and sometimes outright diarrhea issues. Wednesday? I think.. he began puking up dry food within 15 minutes of eating it. After the friskies food incident, I went ahead and took the leap to change their wet food to higher quality food..I had been looking for a better food and just had not picked one yet. I got blue wilderness chicken--it has three primary ingredients, chicken, potato, flaxseed. I switched all three cats to nothing but the blue wilderness wet food. No more issues puking but still alternating loose stools for Ollie.
At this point, I have scheduled a vet appointment but it's not until next week. This is where I miss living in NC and having access to my regular vet--they literally would have just had me walk in the day I thought I had any problems but getting any sort of appointment with the vets where I am now is so much more difficult. Anyhow, this entire time Ollie has been fine aside from the tummy issues. He plays super hard, he drinks lots of water, his coat is great, he's bright eyed, etc. After talking it over with my mom, she and I thought maybe there wasn't enough fiber in the wet food alone so she helped me find a limited ingredient food with chicken as the base and I got that to try to supplement--Nature's Balance pea and chicken. Great--after today Shadow and Thea love it, Ollie's poo got a little more firm and he's nibbled on it all day on and off until tonight. Tonight he threw up mostly digested food--went and ate more dry before I put it up and then threw that up too. My mom says I'm worrying too much since Ollie seems otherwise fine but I feel helpless because I don't know what to do at this point. Could he have an intolrance to the peas? Pea and chicken were the only common ingredient in both the dry foods that caused issues. He can eat chicken wet food that has chicken/potato/flax in it seemingly fine but I still cannot get his stool to harden up. Am I just not giving the wet food only diet long enough to be effective for him? If it wasn't for the litter box, I really wouldn't think anything was wrong at all... so anyhow, any advice in the interim before he sees the vet would be appreciated...
Also, if it is a pea intolerance, is there dry kitty food that is gluten free without peas? Most of the "premium" brands I have checked so far all have peas/pea fibre/pea protein.
