Cat loose poos are doing my head in!

[xxxJess123xxx]

Can anyone help please before I loose my mind.
Have 2 cats, one is 1, one is 12 weeks.
Had cat 1 on Harringtons biscuits and Felix As good as it looks. Kitten has diarrhea.
Change to James Wellbeloved dry and wet. Cat 1 has diarrhea.
Both wormed a week ago.
Thought maybe I'm doing something wrong by buying the expensive quality food as cat 1 is literally pooing through the eye of a needle.
I stuck them on GoCat dry and whiskas wet. Kitten soft poo, cat 1 diarrhea. So expensive food and cheap food, same outcome. She has been like it for a week.
Vet visit for prokolin paste, done nothing. Brought some johnsons diarrhea tablets for cats. Done nothing.
I have 2 cats indoors with 2 kids (not normally a problem, no bad poos in a year) and now I have liquid poo everywhere. She has gone from pooing once a day to like 4/6 times. Kitten poo is still soft. They tread in it from the litter tray and walk it round my carpet. She farts all day long
I'm tearing my hair out. What can I try!

Kitten isn't microchipped yet, only 12 weeks x

If changing food isn’t working then you need to go to the vet - it could be stress related or giardia, if untreated, gets much worse and very, very expensive. Treatment is easy and cheap. I have a thread on here about my shelter cat whose (untreated) giardia also erupted with the stress of moving house.
4x diahorrhea per day for a kitten is dangerously too much, it sounds like he will soon be dehydrated and that is barely manageable for an adult cat, let alone a kitten.
Vet, plus test for giardia and other single-cell parasites. They are not worms so will not be affected by worming treatments.

What sort of price are we looking at. Kitten has not got diarrhea anymore, just soft. It's the bigger cat who has it

My cats had to have antibiotics as well as food change.

One had diarrhoea for a couple of weeks and we tried toting food but couldn’t pinpoint why, then the other got it as well.

Initially vet gave us probiotics, then recommended boiled chicken and rice for a week, but it made everything worse. They both lost loads of weight and were really listless. I kept phoning vet and they kept saying try it a bit longer. In the end I managed to get an appointment. They said they don’t like giving antibiotics that young but could see it was needed.

After antibiotics they both perked back up within a few hours.

Since then, Felix still gives one diarrhoea, but the other is ok with it.

I feel like I have become obsessed with the consistency of my pets stools, the kids are fed up hearing about it ! Just out of 4 day bout of runny stools but female kitten had just had 7 days of antibiotics which I think may have disturbed her system. I worm treated, gave probiotics and thoroughly cleaned all bowls mats litter trays etc. Finally today it seems to have settled down. Fingers crossed you get it sorted. I am also wondering if I was over feeding her ?

I was giving felix kitten wet and purina dry but have just ordered royal canin to try.

@xxxJess123xxx

Kitten isn't microchipped yet, only 12 weeks x

They can be microchipped before eight weeks of age.

Right I'll get her microchipped but doesn't help in the mean time. Big cat is still pooing, even when you pick her up liquid is seeping out of her. I have fed her her felix that she used to be ok on and she has pooed everywhere again
I am literally fucking sick of shit. I don't have tons of money to try all this stuff under the sun and quite frankly I want it sorted like yesterday

This is everywhere as well as loose crap in the litter box

All those dry foods have maize in them that cats can’t tolerate, it’s like feeding a herbivore meat. The digestive systems not set up for it.

Cats don’t need any cereals or grains in their food.

Kitten food isn’t a gimmick. It’s high calorie food.

Johnson’s stuff is mostly rubbish and doesn’t work. We used to buy it in the 80’s when there was less on the market generally.

If you can’t afford vets bills check if you qualify for the PDSA.

I’ve been here myself with the Bengal, he was fine for ages on cereals and then got very poorly throwing up and having diarrhoea several times a day. I put him on plain chicken breast boiled & he slowly recovered.

Just £25 for a trial pack of 5x 450g of Purrform raw food.

Use royal Canin Digestive Care. It worked a treat for mine who had chronic loose poo when I first got her.

I think your cats need to see a vet ASAP.

This sounds more like a bug or parasite than food related now, and that could be very dangerous, especially for the kitten.

Really agree with @icedcoffees , as I have already posted. Really important to see the vet, diahorrhea can quickly be life-threatening for kittens.

I have put multiple times its not the kitten

They've both been unwell though and with similar symptoms, so both animals should see the vet to make sure it's not a bug or parasite which won't go away without appropriate treatment.

I'm going to try get an appointment for the bigger cat today. Will let you know how it goes

How are the cats op?

Take them off felix. Look up a group on Facebook called "Cats Recently Affected By Felix" one of my cats had diarrhoea from it and the other was fine. It took about a week for the diarrhoea to stop when I took them off felix.

Kitten needs to be on kitten food. Feed the cats at set times in separate rooms until the kitten is big enough for adult food. Don't leave food down all day for them; set times only.

I'm not following which cat has had the diarrhea, both at different times?
Really sorry you're going thru this, OP. Change of diet sets some of them off, wouldn't matter what it was.

I took her to the vets (big one) and they said they wanted to do bloods, an ultrasound, feacal sample etc etc
I asked for an estimate and she said 700. Cat is insured so they rang insurance and they said they cannot guarantee they would pay it and I would have to pay it upfront. Sorry but I can't afford that, that's why I pay for insurance!
So I had to take her home with just feacal pots.
I brought some profibre supplement and have just kept both cats on dry food. No wet for either (is that OK?!)
Kitten is on dry kitten James wellbeloved and bigger cat is on Harringtons adult dry
So far, so good. That simple change has meant firmer poos!

One of my kittens had this. Blood in poo occasionally too. Did the all the vet tests. Nothing showed up. Vet recommended a digestive cat food, I can't remember the brand but it was about £25 a bag! Eventually I just switched to a cheaper version and now they are on normal dry biscuits.

By six months she'd outgrown it.