Kitty have discouraging gas =X(?
My mom's 2 year old cat has really bad gas. He is currently ingestion Purina One Chicken & Rice formula. I think she is thinking of switching him to Chicken Soup for the Cat Lover's Soul Adult Lite formula...hes like 14 lbs and she is trying to get his counterweight down (she just adopted him like 2 months ago). Does anyone enjoy a better suggestion of food to switch him to? Anyone else have this problem? What helped? He's pretty potent. Thanks for any help!
Answers: A cat is, by temper, a meat eater. Meat eaters have more protein in their diet than non-meat eaters. Higher protein level contained by their food becomes higher protein level surrounded by their droppings and this makes them stink more. This can also be true for gas, but I would tend to think that your cat's stomach is reacting to something contained by the food that it can't quite digest properly. This is probably the fillers in the food like rice, small piece, wheat gluten, etc. Check the label on the cans or bags of food you nurture him. Are the first few ingredients meat or organ (not "meal" or "byproduct")? Does it contain wheat gluten? This is bad food.
Make sure if you switch him to a different food that you do it slowly so his stomach can adjust to the make over. At first do a mix of the old food with a little of the unsullied and add a little more of the new food to somewhat less of the old food every day until it's adjectives the new food. I've had luck with Wellness brand can food.
As far as trying to help the cat lose weight: is he actually grease? Some cats are healthy at that weight, especially the bigger ones. Run your fingers along his rib enclose. Can you feel the rib bones easily or do you have to press to find them? Does the cat hold a clear "waist" or is he just kind of round? Finally, is it an active cat that plays a great deal? If so then any extra weight will probably come rotten on its own once he starts eating the proper amount of a good food.
Recently a cat breeder suggested to me that I feed my cat a coarse food diet and suggested a rancher that sells "pet food" packages. He uses the meat scraps that don't fit into the steak portions and grinds in some organ and connective tissue to trade name it a good balance of materials from all over the animal. Just just about all you need to add to it is some ground bonemeal (as a calcium supplement for glowing bones). See if you can find something like this close to where you are (so the shipping is cheap) and it might even turn out to be roughly the same price as some of the less healthy can food. The breeder told me this makes her cat's droppings small - which means the cat's stomach is processing most of the food that they are eating - and they pee smaller quantity - which I think means they are getting the right balance of moisture within their food.
