This IS all very interesting.  Thanks everybody.

Wow on the Evo dry treat, Tbobina.  We're totally off the Evo dry now.

As soon as I re-introduced Katz N Flocken as their dry (they're still served grain-free wet, but they'll only eat about a tbsp at a time), Chami's appetite has grown and she's had really good poos and lots of energy...though this morning Cham's poo was on the small pieces size, instead of the nicely shaped ones she had yesterday and the day before, I'm not sure why.

Mooch has been pooing regularly (daily) since the day before, but today he almost wouldn't eat any of his Wellness chicken wet food (which has the pumpkin in it). 

I split half a 3 oz can between the two of them, and I'd say half the wet is left.      I gave each of them 1 tbsp of dry and that's gone (neither of them finished even the dry at first).


Kittylyda, we actually never had poo problems until we went of the kibble and/or went grain-free (including grain-free kibble -- well, Evo dry).  But I'll continue to do the pumpkin for just a few more days.  (As I write that, Mooch is taking a dump    -- ooh, and it's a nice consistency, yay!  Though a little stinky, darn kibble.)

Lesliek, so you give your guys pumpkin and oatmeal at every meal.  Interesting.  Is the homemade recipe you make somewhere posted where I could see it and copy it for possible later use?

Man, I just wish these guys would eat more of their wet...but at least we're back on the road to regularity.

Lesliek,

Thank you for your kind offer to give me a recipe or two once things are at that point for us.


I just fed lunch and Cham ate a ton including wet (all of the 1 tbsp grain dry + probably about 2 tbsp of wet with pumpkin)!  I wonder if she likes the taste of pumpkin in it that's given her such a big appetite these last few days (although I know she does eat more wet when she has a yummy dry with it)?

Mooch on the other hand is really boycotting the wet.  I wonder if he's leery of it after having thrown some up on Monday.  He used to make the rounds to the other bowls searching for leftover dry, but these last couple days, he hasn't even been finishing his 1 tbsp of dry (though he did do a nice poop three days in a row after his bout of constipation).

He was asking me today for his freeze-dried chicken liver.  I decided I'd verrrry lightly dust his wet with it, and as soon as I did, he ate some of it (I'd like him to get in the wet because the pumpkin is in it).


Anyway, I don't know if it's the pumpkin, or the reintroducing a dry with grains, or stopping the Evo dry, but everyone seems to be back on a good pooing schedule.  I'll continue with this for the next few weeks before even thinking to transition anywhere.

Thank you!

LOL!

I just served breakfast and Chami didn't eat as much as she'd been eating in the last couple days...and then I realized that I'd forgotten to put in the pumpkin!

And Mooch, who had been boycotting the wet, had some (not much, but more willingly than when there was pumpkin in it).

I'll add the pumpkin to their lunch and see what they think.


And since we're Talkin' Stool, to keep with the thread theme, Chami did #2x2 yesterday which is very rare for her, and they were both very lovely.

JanC-my mom has some coraphagic dogs. She introduced a new bloodline into her kennel and I swear 80% of those dogs and their progeny are poop-eaters! What's up with THAT?

Besides that it is a disgusting habit, it makes their teeth much more vulnerable to plaque. That or some other bloodline quirk--not sure if it's directly related to the poop buffet or the bloodline in some other way. But man, is it a total turn-off to otherwise beautiful and loving puppies. ( I call all dogs puppies.) Just a big EEEWWW when they want to kiss you.   

I would have major issues with a doggie who did this on a regular basis. The only poop issue I have with Jessie is that she loves nothing more in this world than to roll in fresh bird poop.  Still EEEEWWWW, but nothing a bath or a baby wipe can't fix. 

No, they don't! LOL I was at a friend's house once and their two rat terriers were scooting to beat the band. So I tried to explain to them what was going on, and the second the words 'anal glands'  escaped my mouth, I knew I was never going to be asked back. 

How on earth does a girl go into the litter box and come out with poop stuck on her BACK?!   

I do not know how the girl did it, but I saw Chami go into the litter box (no hood).  She hates to put her feet in the litter, so she always props her body up at the corner with her little leggies on the top of the sides of the box and squats down to do her thing.

(We've always used the same litter and the same ScoopFree automatic litter box since day one, but a month ago when she was propping her body up as usual, she inadvertently stepped on the ON button -- what numbskull designed the box to have the button where they can step on it?!  --  and since there was nobody in the box for the sensors to pick up on, the rake came out and scared the bjeezus out of her     ..... and then the Monster Box was born.  That week, when she'd have to go, she'd sit in front of the box and meow for a few minutes before going in, poor girl...and then one time I woke to find there was a little poo accident just outside the box......so I've got the box turned off now and she's using it as usual.)

Anyway, as I was saying, the girl gets in to do her thing, has a nice, regular poo, and zooms out, also as usual.  But then she keeps zooming around enough to make the other 3 hyper and curious (and me, curious, too).....I finally catch up to where she is, and find she's got poo stuck on her BACK!?

Weird!

I've had those "perching" kitties emerge with poop in odd places, too--it happens.     I've noted this is more likely to happen if they are constipated, and usually it does freak them out and they zoom around because they want it "off, right now!"

If she hates to put her feet in the litter, would it be possible to try another brand?  Sometimes they don't like the feel or smell of one kind for whatever reason, but will put their feet in another kind.

Cats are just weird.

Oh woah, I didn't expect those responses.

She's not constipated and she's using the box as normal, and having daily, good poops.......although when she first came to me (ten months ago), she did have some history of being a bit too soft or a bit too hard (I figured it had to do with her being the skittish one of the group), but that almost never happens now, and yesterday's poop was a good consistency (and now that the box is off and not making the rake noise after someone goes, she hasn't been hesitating to go in...so in essence, it is just a normal box right now).

You still think that I should look into a new box and litter?


*The reason I got the automatic one is because I often have weekend business trips.

*Only Yoyo covers his business of the 4, but I figured it had to do with with their being the litter of 2 ferals....