Chronic Blood In Stool

Hi All and Happy Thanksgiving!

My 3.5 y.o. Cat has been diagnosed with IBD 2 years ago and been through all the usual treatments and has seen a specialist. He was doing really well on limited ingredient diet but then went on strike against the pate last December. I was letting him eat Purina Pro Plan, but was noticing the blood on the outside of his stool as time went on and finally went back to the vet for a Royal Canin Prescription food in September.

I've tried the venison and the rabbit royal canin so far. He refuses to eat either flavor on it's own, so I mix some of the Purina Pro Plan canned in - which obviously defeats the purpose. He will eat some of the dry prescription food.

Oh and he also grinds his teeth, but that seems to have gotten better of late.

I'm writing because. He just pooped and the blood is like a light coating of mucus, very light. Now, however, there's what looks like to me a few pieces of stool that are dark with blood. I know this is chronic and turns into cancer eventually and I'm afraid that the process is being helped along by the fact that I haven't done enough to stop his intestines from being inflamed.

Does anyone know if there's any medication he should be taking besides the daily pred. He gets 1 pill per day, half in morning and half in the evening, I think it's .5mg.

I guess I can also switch him to exclusively dry. Didn't want to do that bec. I am Worried about urinary tract issues.

Thank you in advance for any advice - really sad about this.

PS Have also tried the freeze dried raw. He' would eat that too, but he has gone on strike regarding any food except purina pro plan with gravy.

Try not to give yourself a hard time over feeling you're not doing enough for your cat - you are doing everything you can, and looking for advice on anything else you could try to help some more.   

For me, the main thing is always that a cat will eat something as they can become very sick so quickly if they don't, and that can end up being much more of an emergency than the long term health issues most of us try to manage or avoid.   It is really hard when your cat refuses everything you try, but sometimes it is worth giving in just to make sure they are eating enough.   Many cats live on dry food their whole life without getting urinary or other health issues as a result, and if that is all you can get your cat to eat, and it happens to be a food which suits his IBS then I would go for that.

As for any other medications, I don't have any experience in this area I'm afraid.    The cat I had who was food sensitive settled after fairly long term medication and keeping to as high protein diet as I could find (wet foods for some reason always seemed to trigger off diarrhea with her).