Help! Litter box trouble!! (graphic)

[gritsar]

I just finished scooping the litter box, again! after scooping it late last night.
The problem is KiKi has soft, large stools that are stinky. I'm not talking regular poo stinky, I'm talking worse than a commercial chicken house stink!.

She's had two negative fecal floats at the vet, but the vet went ahead and wormed her just in case.
I've cut way back on her food. The stools aren't diarrhea, but they are soft.
I'm desperate to get the multiple scoopings under control.

She's eating what I consider a good food, but it does have corn gluten listed way down on the ingredients list.
The only thing I can think of to try is feeding her a gluten-free food.
The food has to be something readily available, because we don't have very many choices on stores around here; basically walmart is it.
Please don't suggest a litter maid type litter box. Even if I could justify a $100 litter box to my DH, I imagine there would be trouble with using it because of the looseness of the stools sticking to the "tines".
Help!!

 

[patandchickens]

Was she treated for coccidia, or just worms? (It's a different drug IIRC). Coccidia don't always show up clearly on a fecal float and what you describe is certainly classic for coccidia in cats.

If she's been treated for coccidiosis with no change in her stools, you might consider mail-ordering (or buying OTC next time you take a longer drive to somewhere with more stores) a couple bags of better or corn-glutten-free food, and see if they make a difference. Just for diagnostic purposes. If they DO, then you know what the problem is and can then tackle how to arrange to feed her with only a walmart available; but if they don't make much difference then it seems like less of a possibility (though not IMpossible).

Howeve I have had, and known, cats who were originally neglected strays who just seemed to have some sort of, I dunno, impaired intestinal function or intestinal scarring or something like that, from being run-down for a long time, and no matter what anyone did, they just DID have nasty horrible wet stenchy poos for (you don't want to hear this) a few years. The cats I'm speaking of DID eventually normalize somewhat, but, not anytime soon. So, hopefully that is not your kitty's situation

Good luck,

Pat

 

[Krysstyllanthrox]

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When Sophie was a kitten, we got her looked over by the vet and wormed. And all of a sudden really nasty, runny, no control over her bowels poop appeared. We'd wake up in the morning and go looking for poops to clean up. She'd jump in our lap and do it too, not meaning to be messy but she couldn't control it.

She had pancreas problems. Her pancreas wasn't producing the proper enzymes. The vet gave us a powder to mix into some wet food to help kick start her pancreas. She is now 3, healthy, but does have IBS. We have her (and Cinna, the 1 year old) on a sensitive stomach dry food.

Stress can also cause such a reaction.

 

[Blue Skys]

I had a cat with very stinky poops. I put her on Purina one senstive system and her poops got better. Now she won't eat anything else but that (4 years later). It's not the "best food" but it should be readily available.

 

[redhen]

My brother has 7 cats and he feeds Iams and it dosent smell at all. I'm cheap and feed Purina.

But when i was feeding Iams my cats litter box was much better. I think he feeds the orange bag.

 

[gritsar]

Thanks y'all. I'm going to try the food change and see if it clears up.

 

[verity]

see if your kitty will eat some yogurt -- the vet recommended that for one of ours and it helped -- she loves it --

 

[gritsar]

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k, I'll try that too. Thanks!

 

[CrazyChickieMama]

how's your kitty this afternoon? i do hope everything is ok!!!!!

 

[MariposaMama]

Is she getting milk? I notice that when one of my cats helps himself to one of the kid's leftover glasses of milk it makes for some really nasty poops. It's funny because most people think milk is good for cats, but it really messes with their digestive tract.