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Hi all, I'm back with the poop talk 
A recap: my 9 month old kitten had soft stools with blood at the end of the bowel movement for over 2 months. We got rid of the problem almost entirely after removing kibble from his diet and sticking to sachets only.
We recently traveled from Brazil to France (I am based in France, but spend 4-5 months in Brazil every year). Following the trip, he had a bout of diarrhea, which lasted a day, and there was no blood. He's getting a bit of S. Boulardii sprinkled on his food.
About 10 days after our arrival to France, I started slowly giving him some bits of kibble here and there (Canagan, a brand that helped one of his biological sisters that had the same issue). After a week, he started getting a full meal out of it, which means he now eats 2 sachets a day + around 40g of kibble.
The blood hasn't come back, and his stool has form. What I'm wondering is whether that's healthy enough - although it does have form, it still seems to be quite wet. In the sense that, if he stepped on it, I'd need to wash his paw. His fur is quite long (he's a maine coon) and I try to keep the butt trimmed for hygiene purposes, but sometimes some bits of hair get dirty after he poops.
Should it be drier, I wonder? The color seems okay, there's barely any smell (which goes away quickly) and, again, no blood anymore.
A recap: my 9 month old kitten had soft stools with blood at the end of the bowel movement for over 2 months. We got rid of the problem almost entirely after removing kibble from his diet and sticking to sachets only.
We recently traveled from Brazil to France (I am based in France, but spend 4-5 months in Brazil every year). Following the trip, he had a bout of diarrhea, which lasted a day, and there was no blood. He's getting a bit of S. Boulardii sprinkled on his food.
About 10 days after our arrival to France, I started slowly giving him some bits of kibble here and there (Canagan, a brand that helped one of his biological sisters that had the same issue). After a week, he started getting a full meal out of it, which means he now eats 2 sachets a day + around 40g of kibble.
The blood hasn't come back, and his stool has form. What I'm wondering is whether that's healthy enough - although it does have form, it still seems to be quite wet. In the sense that, if he stepped on it, I'd need to wash his paw. His fur is quite long (he's a maine coon) and I try to keep the butt trimmed for hygiene purposes, but sometimes some bits of hair get dirty after he poops.
Should it be drier, I wonder? The color seems okay, there's barely any smell (which goes away quickly) and, again, no blood anymore.
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thankfully that has never been a struggle. He has a water fountain in the kitchen and a water bowl in my bedroom - since I work from home and spend a lot of time in it, he tends to hang out with me, so I make sure there's some water for him there, too. When he's only eating the sachet, the water intake decreases (I guess because there's a high water content in the food itself), but whenever he eats kibble he drinks water soon after.
