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Post by Opti on Dec 29, 2015 9:53:12 GMT -5
Maybe this will help.
pets.webmd.com/cats/cat-flatulence-gas
Flatulence is more common in dogs than in cats, but cats can develop gas when food ferments in the digestive tract, when they swallow air after eating too fast or too much, or if there’s a disorder of the stomach, small intestine or colon.
A little gas is a natural part of the digestive process and usually passes quickly. Excessive gas, however, especially when it is foul-smelling and accompanied by other symptoms, may indicate that something is wrong in your cat’s digestive system.
The following are some common causes of flatulence in cats: Diets high in wheat, corn, soybeans or fiber Dairy products Spoiled food Overeating Food allergies Poor food absorption Eating too fast Hairballs Intestinal parasites
How Can I Cure My Cat's Flatulence?
You may want to write down what your cat eats within a 24-hour period in order to see which foods might be causing his gas. The following are other suggestions that may help your cat: Gradually change diet to a low-fiber, easily digestible food. Ask your vet for a recommendation. Offer smaller, more frequent meals. Feed cats in multi-cat households separately to avoid food competition. Keep your cat away from spoiled food, i.e. the garbage. Make sure your cat gets regular exercise.
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Post by midjd on Dec 29, 2015 10:00:33 GMT -5
Our street kitten had horrible, dog-like farts. I had never encountered a farting cat before (and we had a lot of cats growing up). He enjoyed it, too -- he'd jump down off the chair and walk over to you for a second to get petted, then go into the other room before you noticed the smell. Little asshole. I miss him. I did notice some improvement when going from the super-cheap food to the more meat-based kind... it didn't completely eliminate it, but it made it less embarrassing when guests were over.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 29, 2015 10:12:07 GMT -5
I'm holding out hope it clears up. LOL
I read somewhere that giving them a teaspoon of yogurt every day helps. She's on Science Diet, so I would think that's pretty good...at least not the cheap stuff, but there are a lot of grains in it. The first three ingredients are Chicken, Whole Grain Wheat and Corn gluten. Until the kidney thing, I've always just fed my old cat Iams his entire 16 years and he's done well on that. Not used to reading cat food labels! Blue Buffalo has a grain free I could try.
She also just got ivermectin last week for ear mites, but I think they apply it topically in that situation so I wouldn't think it would cause digestive issues.
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Post by movingforward on Dec 30, 2015 14:31:33 GMT -5
I'm holding out hope it clears up. LOL I read somewhere that giving them a teaspoon of yogurt every day helps. She's on Science Diet, so I would think that's pretty good...at least not the cheap stuff, but there are a lot of grains in it. The first three ingredients are Chicken, Whole Grain Wheat and Corn gluten. Until the kidney thing, I've always just fed my old cat Iams his entire 16 years and he's done well on that. Not used to reading cat food labels! Blue Buffalo has a grain free I could try. She also just got ivermectin last week for ear mites, but I think they apply it topically in that situation so I wouldn't think it would cause digestive issues. Grain free food is best. Wellness is really good food. Not cheap but good for your cat, and will probably help eliminate the gas issues.
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Post by cael on Dec 30, 2015 14:40:39 GMT -5
When we adopted my cat she farted a little... I switched her to Blue food and it went totally away. Now that she's on Purina OM I've noticed it again once or twice... kind of pissed since now that she's on this expensive vet food she's gained weight and is gassy again but she's friskier again, not constipated, and her calcium levels are normal again so I don't know. ::sigh::
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Post by Deleted on Dec 30, 2015 14:52:48 GMT -5
I'm going to switch but I have a big bag of Science Diet right now and it's what new kitty will be on when he comes...I think...maybe he's on the kitten one? Awesome. Three cats on three different kinds of food.
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Post by ArchietheDragon on Dec 30, 2015 16:03:31 GMT -5
I'm going to switch but I have a big bag of Science Diet right now and it's what new kitty will be on when he comes...I think...maybe he's on the kitten one? Awesome. Three cats on three different kinds of food. don;t you have a barn and mice and stuff?
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Post by tloonya on Dec 30, 2015 16:11:38 GMT -5
I'm going to switch but I have a big bag of Science Diet right now and it's what new kitty will be on when he comes...I think...maybe he's on the kitten one? Awesome. Three cats on three different kinds of food. don;t you have a barn and mice and stuff? 1. barn 2. mice 3. stuff Are these new pet food names?
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Post by Tiny on Dec 30, 2015 16:23:31 GMT -5
Either a cat farts or it doesn't. DH's cat farts are so bad I used to turn on the light and look for poop on the covers. His farts would wake me up out of a sound sleep. DH re-incarnated. It could just be stress related (from the shelter/trip home/new home) and/or an effect of any medication she was taking (you said she had ringworm?). Even topical medication can do it. I'd give her some time... she may still think she's going back to the Shelter... when what she'd really like to do is stay with YOU (and Leroy).
My cat is named after the Planet he resembles: he's very large, is mostly red tabby but with swirls of white. He has an equatorial "red" belt across his white tummy and a great red spot on his white chest. For the first 4 months he was also extremely Gassy. Phew! He could clear a room! He was just very stressed from being at the shelter. His eyes stayed dilated for over a month and he was extremely skittish for the first two months. He started remembering how to be a house cat after about 3 months... and his gassiness dropped off dramatically. He did get gassy after having his teeth cleaned (antibiotics for 10 days) but it cleared up quickly. If I switch up the wet cat food too often he can gets gassy. But for the most part he's fine.
He's a sensitive boy.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 30, 2015 20:53:31 GMT -5
My heartfelt thanks to MPL, Virgil, Mid and Zib for the best laugh I've had in years. Once again DH came in to see what I was howling about and after reading the posts all he could say was "Thank God Dewey doesn't have gas!"
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Post by Deleted on Dec 30, 2015 23:13:00 GMT -5
So, the 5 year old and the kitten have hit it off pretty well. Tonight they were playing The Avengers battle the Evil Mutant Feline on the kitty tower with Lego sets. It was hilarious. Unfortunately, not even Thor or Ironman could defeat her and the kitty triumphed. After the Avengers went to bed, kitty went on to decimate the neighboring Christmas village then settled in next to me on the couch and let loose another nasty one. Maybe I'll buy that new food now.
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Post by ❤ mollymouser ❤ on Dec 30, 2015 23:19:12 GMT -5
We feed our cats grain free Taste or the Wild kibble and grain-free Before Grain kibble (yes, two different flavors to choose from), plus for canned food, we feed grain-free Fussie Cat.
Cats are obligate carnivores ~ grains aren't doing them any good.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 31, 2015 9:11:04 GMT -5
I have released the Kraken! I let her have the run of the house all night and didn't lock her up this morning when I headed to work because I'm not going to be home until really late. She didn't destroy the place last night (slept next to me most of the night), but today might be a different story. We went around and shut all the doors we could to contain the chaos.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 31, 2015 9:12:47 GMT -5
We feed our cats grain free Taste or the Wild kibble and grain-free Before Grain kibble (yes, two different flavors to choose from), plus for canned food, we feed grain-free Fussie Cat. Cats are obligate carnivores ~ grains aren't doing them any good. I was browsing the cat food aisle at the farm supply store last night. Holy crap there are a lot of brands. I was looking for something that said "For Gassy Cats" on the front, but they weren't that specific. They do have Taste of the Wild, but not the other one. I might switch her sooner rather than later.
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Post by weltschmerz on Dec 31, 2015 13:11:11 GMT -5
We feed our cats grain free Taste or the Wild kibble and grain-free Before Grain kibble (yes, two different flavors to choose from), plus for canned food, we feed grain-free Fussie Cat. Cats are obligate carnivores ~ grains aren't doing them any good. Can you please tell Sushi that? I often come home to see he's devoured loaves of bread and cherry Danish. Nothing but the bags and crumbs left under the coffee table. He thinks he hides the evidence under there.
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Post by The Walk of the Penguin Mich on Dec 31, 2015 14:20:49 GMT -5
We feed our cats grain free Taste or the Wild kibble and grain-free Before Grain kibble (yes, two different flavors to choose from), plus for canned food, we feed grain-free Fussie Cat. Cats are obligate carnivores ~ grains aren't doing them any good. Can you please tell Sushi that? I often come home to see he's devoured loaves of bread and cherry Danish. Nothing but the bags and crumbs left under the coffee table. He thinks he hides the evidence under there. Your Sushi would work well with my Grendel. If I walked away from a bagel smeared with cream cheese, he would have it licked clean before I could return. He would then knock the bagel off the plate and under the table to hide the evidence. It sounds like the 2 of them could rule the world! <while Grendel was a totally black cat, I suspect he had some oriental shorthair in him, due to vocalization and body type>
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Post by weltschmerz on Dec 31, 2015 16:29:21 GMT -5
:::sigh:::
I just made myself two open-faced sandwiches of fresh rye bread, cream cheese, dill, and topped with smoked salmon. I went to get a glass of water, and when I returned, all the salmon was gone from one of them.
-Sushi!! Did you do this? -Who, me? Of course not! -Well, it didn't just swim away. -It must have.
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Post by Virgil Showlion on Dec 31, 2015 17:10:34 GMT -5
Everybody needs a cat.
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Post by Jaguar on Dec 31, 2015 18:30:57 GMT -5
LMAO, oh Virgil.
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Post by weltschmerz on Dec 31, 2015 18:50:52 GMT -5
MINE! Pi$$ off!
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Post by ❤ mollymouser ❤ on Dec 31, 2015 21:40:44 GMT -5
One of my cats loves nothing better than stealing cucumber peels out of the sink and running through the house with them. Seriously weird.
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Post by Virgil Showlion on Dec 31, 2015 22:48:59 GMT -5
We owned dogs while I was growing up.
They didn't claw the furniture, spread garbage throughout the house, or suck the tuna off our sandwiches. When they were gassy or rambunctious, we put them outside until they were no longer gassy or rambunctious.
They were smart enough to know where they were and weren't allowed to go, what they were and weren't allowed to eat, and where they were and weren't allowed to do their business. In the wintertime, we'd have them pull us around on toboggans.
Although this concept will surely seem foreign to cat owners, the enjoyment in keeping our dogs as pets was because they were well-behaved, not because we relished having the tuna sucked off our sandwiches or cucumber shavings wedged into our couch cushions. Our special approach to pet ownership was called "sanity", and we found it to be widely practiced among owners of non-feline pets.
Before buying your next pet cat, I highly recommend looking into it. You might discover that pet ownership can be about more than routine masochism.
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Post by Jaguar on Dec 31, 2015 22:55:35 GMT -5
We owned dogs while I was growing up. They didn't claw the furniture, spread garbage throughout the house, or suck the tuna off our sandwiches. When they were gassy or rambunctious, we put them outside until they were no longer gassy or rambunctious. They were smart enough to know where they were and weren't allowed to go, what they were and weren't allowed to eat, and where they were and weren't allowed to do their business. In the wintertime, we'd have them pull us around on toboggans. Although this concept will surely seem foreign to cat owners, the enjoyment in keeping our dogs as pets was because they were well-behaved, not because we relished having the tuna sucked off our sandwiches or cucumber shavings wedged into our couch cushions. Our special approach to pet ownership was called "sanity", and we found it to be widely practiced among owners of non-feline pets. Before buying your next pet cat, I highly recommend looking into it. You might discover that pet ownership can be about more than routine masochism. Oh Bah Humbug, Cat's RULE, Dogs and Virgils well drool.
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Post by Virgil Showlion on Dec 31, 2015 22:58:02 GMT -5
We owned dogs while I was growing up. They didn't claw the furniture, spread garbage throughout the house, or suck the tuna off our sandwiches. When they were gassy or rambunctious, we put them outside until they were no longer gassy or rambunctious. They were smart enough to know where they were and weren't allowed to go, what they were and weren't allowed to eat, and where they were and weren't allowed to do their business. In the wintertime, we'd have them pull us around on toboggans. Although this concept will surely seem foreign to cat owners, the enjoyment in keeping our dogs as pets was because they were well-behaved, not because we relished having the tuna sucked off our sandwiches or cucumber shavings wedged into our couch cushions. Our special approach to pet ownership was called "sanity", and we found it to be widely practiced among owners of non-feline pets. Before buying your next pet cat, I highly recommend looking into it. You might discover that pet ownership can be about more than routine masochism. Oh Bah Humbug, Cat's RULE, Dogs and Virgils well drool. When it comes to abusing people, you're absolutely right. Thank you for pointing that out, Sugilite. It was very insightful.
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We owned dogs while I was growing up. They didn't claw the furniture, spread garbage throughout the house, or suck the tuna off our sandwiches. When they were gassy or rambunctious, we put them outside until they were no longer gassy or rambunctious. They were smart enough to know where they were and weren't allowed to go, what they were and weren't allowed to eat, and where they were and weren't allowed to do their business. In the wintertime, we'd have them pull us around on toboggans. Although this concept will surely seem foreign to cat owners, the enjoyment in keeping our dogs as pets was because they were well-behaved, not because we relished having the tuna sucked off our sandwiches or cucumber shavings wedged into our couch cushions. Our special approach to pet ownership was called "sanity", and we found it to be widely practiced among owners of non-feline pets. Before buying your next pet cat, I highly recommend looking into it. You might discover that pet ownership can be about more than routine masochism. I've owned several dogs. I love dogs. A dog can't take care of themselves when they're home alone for 12-13 hours a day. This is our life right now, so no dog. These are substitutes. For me anyhow, my son is actually a genuine cat person as in prefers them to dogs. This was our last dog (tackling older son when he was like...4 maybe) I really miss her.
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Post by weltschmerz on Jan 1, 2016 4:40:36 GMT -5
We owned dogs while I was growing up. They didn't claw the furniture, spread garbage throughout the house, or suck the tuna off our sandwiches. When they were gassy or rambunctious, we put them outside until they were no longer gassy or rambunctious. They were smart enough to know where they were and weren't allowed to go, what they were and weren't allowed to eat, and where they were and weren't allowed to do their business. In the wintertime, we'd have them pull us around on toboggans. Although this concept will surely seem foreign to cat owners, the enjoyment in keeping our dogs as pets was because they were well-behaved, not because we relished having the tuna sucked off our sandwiches or cucumber shavings wedged into our couch cushions. Our special approach to pet ownership was called "sanity", and we found it to be widely practiced among owners of non-feline pets. Before buying your next pet cat, I highly recommend looking into it. You might discover that pet ownership can be about more than routine masochism. Dogs have owners, while cats have servants. Now tell me which one is smarter.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 1, 2016 12:41:26 GMT -5
Ok. Not as funny after last night. I had to lock her out of my room it was so bad. DS told me the same thing this morning. Apparently she headed down to his room after leaving mine.
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