My cat eats multiple brands of wet food but only Natural Balance chicken and peas limited ingredients dry food. Periodically. I attempt to introduce a different brand as I worry about relying on one brand of dry food. Unfortunately new dry food usually leads to soft poop and I end up donating an almost full bag of food. Yes, I do slow intros. She would return to Natural Balance without any problems.
Most recently I introduced Nature's Variety. Initially her poop was a bit soft and then after the 4th or 5th day, it became watery. I discontinued the new food and gave her only the old food-Natural Balance. The problem though was the squirts continued. So I stopped the dry food altogether and only fed wet food. Normal BMs returned instantaneously. No dry food for a week and then a week of reintroducing the old dry food in micro servings along with pumpkin. As I increased the serving size, the BMs were a little softer but no squirts. Today I fed her the normal amount she used to get--2 tablespoons of dry food a day. Two incidences of watery BM came after she ate her 2 tablespoons (spread over 2 serving times). Ugh.
Any thoughts on this?
I'm perplexed why even her old dry food is causing her problems now? She used to go right back to the old dry food whenever an intro to new dry food wasn't successful so this is really odd.
My cat eats primarily wet food and as mentioned, only about 2 tablespoons of dry daily. I keep her on some dry food because I travel. When I travel, she gets one serving of wet food from the cat sitter and then gets about 1/2 cup of dry food from the auto feeder. I worry about what is going to happen now if she can't tolerate any dry food at all. My next trip is in late April so I'm getting a bit worried now.
Most recently I introduced Nature's Variety. Initially her poop was a bit soft and then after the 4th or 5th day, it became watery. I discontinued the new food and gave her only the old food-Natural Balance. The problem though was the squirts continued. So I stopped the dry food altogether and only fed wet food. Normal BMs returned instantaneously. No dry food for a week and then a week of reintroducing the old dry food in micro servings along with pumpkin. As I increased the serving size, the BMs were a little softer but no squirts. Today I fed her the normal amount she used to get--2 tablespoons of dry food a day. Two incidences of watery BM came after she ate her 2 tablespoons (spread over 2 serving times). Ugh.
Any thoughts on this?
I'm perplexed why even her old dry food is causing her problems now? She used to go right back to the old dry food whenever an intro to new dry food wasn't successful so this is really odd.
My cat eats primarily wet food and as mentioned, only about 2 tablespoons of dry daily. I keep her on some dry food because I travel. When I travel, she gets one serving of wet food from the cat sitter and then gets about 1/2 cup of dry food from the auto feeder. I worry about what is going to happen now if she can't tolerate any dry food at all. My next trip is in late April so I'm getting a bit worried now.