Hello,
This is my first post here. My 8 year old cat was recently ill and was not terribly interested in food. Long story short my vet is treating it as stress colitis and she is on metronidazole/flagyl and hydrolyzed milk protein as a natural calming aid. The reason I am posting this story here is that while she was ill, she wouldn't eat her normal kibble but she is eating the Rad Cat Raw diet we've been supplementing her with for months. Since she had lost some weight and I was desperate for her to eat, I've allowed her to eat as much as she's wanted of this. She has 1 more day left on the 10 day metronidazole prescription. I've been reading you really need to make a slow and gradual transition to raw food from kibble and I'm concerned about her G.I. tract and digestion. Her poops went from bloody & runny (when she was ill) to pretty formed (today), but the poop seems like it is tinged red (and obviously it is a different, unfamiliar texture from her old kibble poops). I've read raw food poops should be small and almost chalky. Naturally there is blood mixed in with the Rad Cat Raw ground turkey but I've read it's not supposed to show up in stool.
I'm not sure how to proceed with her diet. I'm worried I've transitioned her too quickly but I've read it's bad to feed kibble and raw food at same time because the digestion processes for each are very different? She is in so much better spirits than before but I'm still concerned about her health and diet. It is possibly that after she stops taking flagyl we could find she still has an issue (IBD??) but the fact that she has transitioned diets so quickly will make it hard to observe in stool. Looking for advice and/or experience.
This is my first post here. My 8 year old cat was recently ill and was not terribly interested in food. Long story short my vet is treating it as stress colitis and she is on metronidazole/flagyl and hydrolyzed milk protein as a natural calming aid. The reason I am posting this story here is that while she was ill, she wouldn't eat her normal kibble but she is eating the Rad Cat Raw diet we've been supplementing her with for months. Since she had lost some weight and I was desperate for her to eat, I've allowed her to eat as much as she's wanted of this. She has 1 more day left on the 10 day metronidazole prescription. I've been reading you really need to make a slow and gradual transition to raw food from kibble and I'm concerned about her G.I. tract and digestion. Her poops went from bloody & runny (when she was ill) to pretty formed (today), but the poop seems like it is tinged red (and obviously it is a different, unfamiliar texture from her old kibble poops). I've read raw food poops should be small and almost chalky. Naturally there is blood mixed in with the Rad Cat Raw ground turkey but I've read it's not supposed to show up in stool.
I'm not sure how to proceed with her diet. I'm worried I've transitioned her too quickly but I've read it's bad to feed kibble and raw food at same time because the digestion processes for each are very different? She is in so much better spirits than before but I'm still concerned about her health and diet. It is possibly that after she stops taking flagyl we could find she still has an issue (IBD??) but the fact that she has transitioned diets so quickly will make it hard to observe in stool. Looking for advice and/or experience.