My Cat Poops Every 3 Days..

I'm worried my cat doesn't poop enough, she poops every 3-4 days, as in 3-4 days in between each poop, so about twice a week. She's on raw food but I'm still worried there is something wrong. When she does go she goes twice in that day normally. The amount isn't a lot but it isn't very little when she does go. Im not sure if I should be overly worried or not. She seems healthy otherwise. She's been to the vet serval times over the past 6 months and I don't want to take her again, nor do I have the money.

Someone will correct me if i'm wrong, but when my cats were totally raw fed kitties they didn't defecate but every two to three days either.  And their poop was much smaller and much less smelly.

If the poop is a good consistency (not round and hard), she's not straining or complaining while she's going, and the vet thinks her motility is good (which they can get a sense of by feeling their abdomen during an exam), then she's likely fine. Raw food does reduce the amount of waste produced, because so much of what she eats is being put to use!

Molly92 said:

If the poop is a good consistency (not round and hard), she's not straining or complaining while she's going, and the vet thinks her motility is good (which they can get a sense of by feeling their abdomen during an exam), then she's likely fine. Raw food does reduce the amount of waste produced, because so much of what she eats is being put to use!

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Define round and hard. Her poop is always like I guess a normal shaped poop, but it tends to be pretty firm, I was always told that firm is normal on raw.

LavishSqualor said:

Someone will correct me if i'm wrong, but when my cats were totally raw fed kitties they didn't defecate but every two to three days either.  And their poop was much smaller and much less smelly.

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Yes that's true but I worry since she goes about every 3-4 days. As of now she hasn't pooped since Thursday last week.

The marble-shaped poop I don't think is normal. I don't feed raw, so I'm not positive on that, but I have dealt with constipation, and that's what it looks like. What kind of raw are you feeding? Does it have an appropriate amount of moisture (like if it's freeze-dried, do you rehydrate it?). I've also heard that too much bone can make cats constipated, and there are recipes that use an eggshell supplement instead of bone for calcium for this reason.

Molly92 said:

The marble-shaped poop I don't think is normal. I don't feed raw, so I'm not positive on that, but I have dealt with constipation, and that's what it looks like. What kind of raw are you feeding? Does it have an appropriate amount of moisture (like if it's freeze-dried, do you rehydrate it?). I've also heard that too much bone can make cats constipated, and there are recipes that use an eggshell supplement instead of bone for calcium for this reason.

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It's not marble shaped. In my experience with raw firm is quite normal. It is a premade raw that it kept in the feezer, not dehydrated. I make sure to even give her extra water mixed with the raw to make suse she have the correct water intake.