Phew that's a relief that she's doing okay.

Sue

Treacle gets this too, thought it was probably worms, so he was Drontalled which certainly sorted him out, but sometimes still gets it, I think after he's had too many crunchies, due to the corn content perhaps? He has Hills Science Plan Chicken, which is a good dry food, but sometimes he will prefer to eat it all day without any wet food (teething I think!!) and then have a softer poo with a drop of blood. I try to give him a good mixture of wet and dry food throughout the day!

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Hi Treaclesmum and welcome to the forum.

You've answered to a problem somebody had 3 years ago (I suppose you didn't want to start a new thread - I sometimes do the same, not to agglomerate the forum with too many similar issues). May I suggest you to provide a poo sample (in fact three samples within three weeks) to a veterinary clinic for a parasites full examination, for your cat's security? Drontal does not solve all intestinal parasites and truth to say, neither will the crunchies, no matter what brand they are. Corn IMO has nothing to do with cats nutrition. And, please believe me, I admire Hill's work, I just don't feed my cats with it.

In my experience grains in dry food especially are a major cause of this-the blood shows the colon is fairly inflamed. If you were you I'd cut out the dry completely and see if it improves with a wet diet. Otherwise constipation can be a cause ie hard stools.

He's normally fine when he has a mixture of wet and dry food - he will just eat Hills dry overnight, and then have 3 wet meals during the day, and this is fine for him, his poos are normal! But if he has a day or two where he chooses dry food over wet, then I feel he is getting too much grain!!

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