hi my male kitten got nutered and had his 2nd jab approx 2 weeks ago, and for about a week now he has had diarrhea, it is thick and not watery at all, the last 6 days i have fed him on chicken breast and rice. He does not seem ill he is still his playful self, still running up the curtains etc. I just wondered if diarrhea is a normal thing after being nutered?

It may be a bit of a reaction to the op and the jabs or he may have picked up a bit of a bug in the vets. If it has been going on for a week, I would get him back to the vets for a check up as he is still quite young and could go downhill quickly if it is left.

Lou

Will he eat cat biscuits if so give him one meal of biscuits a day with the normal meals. This may solve it

hi thanks for the adivce I will try him with the dry food once a day between his chicken and rice and then take him vets monday if hes no better.

may sound like a really silly question but... your giving him chicken breast & rice - how are you cooking the chicken?

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im boiling the chicken

Excellent - sorry for asking but in my experience you wouldn't beleive the amount of people that give roast chicken..thinking it's a good optional substitue.....lol

Feeding Chicken & Rice is a great way of bringing your kitten back to a very basic nutriional intake, (as it helps to rid the body from manufactured toxins which, like it or not are in every food 'stuffs' that they consume) however, you must also consider the fact that the chicken contains a disproportionate amount of water and, in the same way that if we drank 80% water then ate just 20% of solid our stools would also be very runny...

The advice from silverhorse is good advice in my opinion, as the dehydrated make up of dry foods will help (at least in some way) to absorb the excess water within your kittens digestive tract. Of course it goes without saying that with clean fresh water being avalble your kitten will be able to re-hydrate at a speed that suits them.

With your original post on the vets proceedures, these can knock our pets sideways and we should never under estimate our pets reaction to these in the same way that different people react in different ways to aliments.

What were you feeding your kitten prior to this and was everything ok then... sorry to go on but it helps to have all of the info :-)

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try no food for one day and just boiled chicken for a couple days then slowly introduce new food once the runs stop. no rice. if it doesn't clear up after that you need to take him back into the vets it could be an infection from the surgery.

mine get diarrhea if they eat cat food in gravey they have to have it in jelly

Hi,
Cats should ideally eat foods containing around 80% moisture - dried foods contain only 10% which is why they are not a good diet for a cat; they also contain unneccessary ingredients such as grains and vegetables. IMO dried food is far more likely to cause diarrhoea / make it worse. I'd advise sticking with the chicken and rice for now and maybe add probiotic (ask a vet for advice on this)
If the diarrhoea doesn't clear up within a few more days it'd be wise to see the vet anyway.

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