A couple of weeks before we left on our trip, Lonee’s stool started to get softer. The closer it got to our leave date, the runnier it got. At one point, it was nothing but brown water, nothing solid at all in it.
I warned the sitter about this. The night/morning before we left, it dawned on me that it was most likely the food. We get Felidae and the last bags we got had odd looking kibble. It looked puffier than before. At two Thursday morning, I got out of bed, got the crockpot out, filled it with water and added four frozen chicken breasts. I set it on high and by the time we got up Thursday, it was cooked.
I let it cool off and put the breasts in a ziploc bag and put it into the refrigerator. I gave Lonee a little bit of chicken and she ate it right down.
I called the sitter a couple of times a day to check up on Lonee’s stool and the sitter actually went the extra mile by injecting an anti-diarrheal into the chicken, to help firm up the poop. My big fear was dehydration. When we got home Monday, there was only one pile of poop in the laundry room. It was dried out, but it was obvious it had been watery. After we unpacked and got settled in, we went to the pet store to find a different food.
We bought a bag of Innova. Lonee likes it, the other cats are pretty much “eh” about it, which is a good thing. This makes it easier to give to her without other catly interference. I’ve also started using this in place of the Felidae for the nightly feed. Since Lonee likes the wet food at night.
This morning, for the first time in weeks, Lonee’s stool was more firm than anything else. There were a few drips around it, but it was looking much better than it had in weeks.
I started walking through the house chanting “da poop looks like poop! da poop looks like poop!” I even got Brian to go back and look at it.
If you’ve been there, you know what I’m talking about. That feeling of relief that it will be okay.
Lonee’s coming out of hiding now. We see her drinking from the water bowl in the window and the water bowl on the counter. It’s good to see her on the road to recovery.
I did call Felidae. I was told they hadn’t changed the formula, but sometimes cats develop an intolerance to something in the food. They’re going to send samples of their other food to me. I like Felidae for the cats, they’ve done well on it. But I can’t have this happening again.
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