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Hi, I would appreciate any advice of things I can try.
My cat Domino has always eaten raw — commercial which she eventually walked away from, and Hare-Today meat/bone/organ grinds mixed w Alnutrin) for the past 1.5 years. She started to pass soft smelly stool which turned to liquid for awhile in October. I took her to the vet, who ran more detailed PCR test and Urine Protein Creatinine Ratio test. And their only recommendation and assumption was to stop feeding her raw. I never tried non-raw, so I gave it a shot. I have been feeding her mostly cooked chicken and liver with the necessary supplementation, and S. Boulardi, Slippery Elm, and some probiotics. I think I may have rushed trying other proteins and semi-raw, as her poops have gotten better, and then gone back to smelly soft.
I have been going much slower with any deviations, and we were on the road to recovery with great poops that didn't smell, when yesterday she passed a smelly soft poop, along with normal poop. And today, the same food she gobbled up yesterday, she is walking away from, even though she is telling me she's hungry and her temperament is still the same. No poops good or bad so far today (it's not constipation and she's never had that). I cooked it all the way, in case she's really that extremely sensitive to bacteria now, and she ate some. But not again. I'm not sure what to do except buy a different source of protein for now and cook it all the way, and try various brands of commercial food.
I would love to go back to raw. That worked for both of us. Or healthy commercial. Home-cooked diet has been a huge effort that I don't want to continue with forever. She seems to be a white-meat girl.
Other commercial raw foods:
Savage
Commercial raw she didn't like/stopped liking:
Raw Dynamics
Vital Essentials
Answers
Stella and Chewy freeze-dried
Primal freeze-dried (hates)
Tucker's (not into, could be the pumpkin)
Boss Cat
Proteins:
Chicken
Turkey
Rabbit
Duck
Pork
Quail
Pheasant
Proteins she did not like or had a reaction to:
Cavies
Mouse
Some duck brands
My cat Domino has always eaten raw — commercial which she eventually walked away from, and Hare-Today meat/bone/organ grinds mixed w Alnutrin) for the past 1.5 years. She started to pass soft smelly stool which turned to liquid for awhile in October. I took her to the vet, who ran more detailed PCR test and Urine Protein Creatinine Ratio test. And their only recommendation and assumption was to stop feeding her raw. I never tried non-raw, so I gave it a shot. I have been feeding her mostly cooked chicken and liver with the necessary supplementation, and S. Boulardi, Slippery Elm, and some probiotics. I think I may have rushed trying other proteins and semi-raw, as her poops have gotten better, and then gone back to smelly soft.
I have been going much slower with any deviations, and we were on the road to recovery with great poops that didn't smell, when yesterday she passed a smelly soft poop, along with normal poop. And today, the same food she gobbled up yesterday, she is walking away from, even though she is telling me she's hungry and her temperament is still the same. No poops good or bad so far today (it's not constipation and she's never had that). I cooked it all the way, in case she's really that extremely sensitive to bacteria now, and she ate some. But not again. I'm not sure what to do except buy a different source of protein for now and cook it all the way, and try various brands of commercial food.
I would love to go back to raw. That worked for both of us. Or healthy commercial. Home-cooked diet has been a huge effort that I don't want to continue with forever. She seems to be a white-meat girl.
Other commercial raw foods:
Savage
Commercial raw she didn't like/stopped liking:
Raw Dynamics
Vital Essentials
Answers
Stella and Chewy freeze-dried
Primal freeze-dried (hates)
Tucker's (not into, could be the pumpkin)
Boss Cat
Proteins:
Chicken
Turkey
Rabbit
Duck
Pork
Quail
Pheasant
Proteins she did not like or had a reaction to:
Cavies
Mouse
Some duck brands