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Looking for advice for my 5 year old fuzzy orange kitty who has been dealing with diarrhea for the last week and chronic soft stools since we adopted him 2 years ago.
A bit of back story - In January, our orange guy was diagnosed via ultrasound with IBD triggered by suspected protein allergies, having dealt with chronic soft stools and ups and downs in behaviour/appetite since we adopted him in 2021. Based on this, he was prescribed prednisolone and Royal Canin hydrolyzed dry food to eat exclusively. This food resulted in projectile vomiting and diarrhea until it cleared his system. We then tried him on RC canned select protein (pea and duck) and that actually firmed up his stools decently, while taking reduced prednisolone every other day. We did however notice some upper GI symptoms (like wanting o regurgitate) on the RC pea and duck + still some on and off stools, so our vet suggested we try a novel protein and we opted for Rayne rabbit - the pate wasn't palatable but he ate the dry food equivalent. Similar to the RC hydrolyzed kibble, this led to another episode of completely liquid diarrhea until it cleared his system, including not making it to the litter box and pooping in the bathtub (at least a relative easy place to sanitize!).
For the last few months, we settled him back into RC pea and duck + pred + probiotics and he was doing alright, all things considered. A week ago, we tried to give him 10 kibbles of FirstMate duck and blueberries dry food (single protein) and that resulted in another saga of liquid poop multiple times a day, low appetite, this time lasting on and off for the last 6 days and has not yet resolved. Our vet recommended increasing his prednisolone dose temporarily to get past this incident. We of course feel terrible for putting our kitty through this, especially since he was doing alright prior the kibble experiment.
Long winded back story, but this latest incident led us to wonder if others have experienced a cat who just didn't tolerate any dry food but didn't have an evident protein allergy? We realized that all of the vet-guided testing we've tried so far have been kibble-based - hydrolyzed, rabbit. And now also this latest side track duck kibble incident. The only time we have given our cat exclusively canned food has been the RC pea and duck, and this has had the best result (though not perfect). We ran this dry food intolerance hypothesis by our vet and they said they had never heard of an intolerance to kibble before and are pretty confident our kitty reacts poorly to a protein. We're at a bit of a loss because we want to follow the vet's recommendation but are also curious to test out other canned foods that could have better results than the RC pea and duck. We also don't want to cause unnecessary suffering to our kitty. Looking for any similar experiences or advice! TIA!
Looking for advice for my 5 year old fuzzy orange kitty who has been dealing with diarrhea for the last week and chronic soft stools since we adopted him 2 years ago.
A bit of back story - In January, our orange guy was diagnosed via ultrasound with IBD triggered by suspected protein allergies, having dealt with chronic soft stools and ups and downs in behaviour/appetite since we adopted him in 2021. Based on this, he was prescribed prednisolone and Royal Canin hydrolyzed dry food to eat exclusively. This food resulted in projectile vomiting and diarrhea until it cleared his system. We then tried him on RC canned select protein (pea and duck) and that actually firmed up his stools decently, while taking reduced prednisolone every other day. We did however notice some upper GI symptoms (like wanting o regurgitate) on the RC pea and duck + still some on and off stools, so our vet suggested we try a novel protein and we opted for Rayne rabbit - the pate wasn't palatable but he ate the dry food equivalent. Similar to the RC hydrolyzed kibble, this led to another episode of completely liquid diarrhea until it cleared his system, including not making it to the litter box and pooping in the bathtub (at least a relative easy place to sanitize!).
For the last few months, we settled him back into RC pea and duck + pred + probiotics and he was doing alright, all things considered. A week ago, we tried to give him 10 kibbles of FirstMate duck and blueberries dry food (single protein) and that resulted in another saga of liquid poop multiple times a day, low appetite, this time lasting on and off for the last 6 days and has not yet resolved. Our vet recommended increasing his prednisolone dose temporarily to get past this incident. We of course feel terrible for putting our kitty through this, especially since he was doing alright prior the kibble experiment.
Long winded back story, but this latest incident led us to wonder if others have experienced a cat who just didn't tolerate any dry food but didn't have an evident protein allergy? We realized that all of the vet-guided testing we've tried so far have been kibble-based - hydrolyzed, rabbit. And now also this latest side track duck kibble incident. The only time we have given our cat exclusively canned food has been the RC pea and duck, and this has had the best result (though not perfect). We ran this dry food intolerance hypothesis by our vet and they said they had never heard of an intolerance to kibble before and are pretty confident our kitty reacts poorly to a protein. We're at a bit of a loss because we want to follow the vet's recommendation but are also curious to test out other canned foods that could have better results than the RC pea and duck. We also don't want to cause unnecessary suffering to our kitty. Looking for any similar experiences or advice! TIA!