Hello everyone,
I am new to the forum after doing a search for cleaning kitten bottoms, which led me here, LOL. Anyway, I thought I would share my experience with cats and diarrhea in the hope that it will help others who are struggling with unresolved diarrhea in cats.
I recently had to put down my 19 year old Main Coon-I had her since she was six weeks old-and for many years struggled to find an answer for her chronic bloody diarrhea. For YEARs she suffered, she was uncomfortable, her fur was oily and she just felt bad all the time. I took her to vets over and over and each time it was suggested to run tests for worms and each time the tests were negative. Very frustrating. We moved to Germany (military) and she began to have seizures, so decided to put her down. đ The German Vet refused! (How awesome is that?). He asked to take her and see what he could do. So after 1 month in his care (including a biopsy and diet control), she was cured. (BTW, he only charged 500 Euro for all that-unthinkable in the US). It turned out that she could not handle any grain products, so all the wheat and corn gluten that most pet food manufacturers add to cheaply increase protein content was killing my cat! It was a lightbulb moment and I began researching diet and learned that felines are Obligate Carnivores…they are not like dogs-so all that grain and gluten in cat food is not only unnecessary, for some cats it is downright harmful. She never had diarrhea again (except when I could not find grain free and then she would develop bloody diarrhea within hours). I recommend that everyone do a bit of research for yourselves on the topic. I have found that none of my Vets seem to be up on nutrition..we just seem to think that Pet Food companies know what is best for us…and I have found they don’t…unfortunately, grain free costs more (I guess it’s the pet equivalent of Organic!). So now I read labels and if it has grain/gluten it’s not coming into the house. I hope this helps someone out there.
Karen
.