I posted a thread a few weeks ago about our getting a new siamese kitten…well he’s arrived and we have had nothing but surprises since. First he had some fleas…and was quite lethargic…so we took him to the vet the second day we had him…she gave him some new flea stuff called Revolutions[SUP]TM[/SUP] Pfizer. and they all died and now he’s a hellian…Ok cool.
He sleeps through the night which is amazing and yet there is one underlying problem we can not seem to solve. He farts all the darn time! My wife and I will be sitting with him, lounging infront of the tube and all of a sudden the most horrible odor will arise from his rear! Terrible! Disgusting! Other times we’ll be playing and I’ll walk into a waft of the most heinous stench! I tried picking him up and putting him in his litter but he just jumps out!
Whats going on with the little guy? Is it his food? We are feeding him Purina Kitten Chow hard crunchies…and occasionally we give him the soft stuff…Are we doing something wrong? Or did we just buy an Uncle Fester?
You’re feeding him wet food, which is likely part of the problem. In my experience wet food is nothing but trouble for cats or dogs, granting that with kittens you have no choice early on.
The sooner you get him off the wet stuff and onto an exclusive diet of dry kibble, the better.
All healthy kittens are hellions. Siamese are doubly so. But they’re a lot of fun.
Some cats and kittens do better on one kind of food than another. Ours do best on (I believe it’s) Friskies Indoor Cat formula. Wet food can definitely cause smelly farts. And smelly poops, as well.
He’s not interested in farting in the litter box because he’s not going to the bathroom, he’s just letting off a little hot air. Farting in the litter box wouldn’t do you any good, either, unless it’s one of those covered litter boxes with an odor control unit.
Are you giving Kitty any milk or dairy foods at all? Kittens generally lose the ability to process certain elements of dairy products after they’re weaned. I know of all the stereotypes of giving the cat a bowl of milk or cream, and they DO love it, but they can’t digest it in most cases. What’s more, sometimes it will give them horrid diarrhea. So if you’re giving kitty ANY milk products, even a bite of cheese now and then, try stopping that.
There are indoor kitty green kits available in various stores. You just plant the seeds in the little container, water, and pretty soon Kitty has his own indoor patch of lawn to nibble on. Cats enjoy nibbling on plants (and this is something to be wary of, if you have houseplants) and this will get some chlorophyll into his system. It MIGHT help with the smell. I don’t guarantee it.
Somewhat off topic, he’s probably not old enough to find catnip interesting. Some cats love it, and others are completely indifferent to it. I’m just letting you know ahead of time.
Other than that, I’d say to ask your vet. There are different formulations of cat food, and I think that sometimes vets will try activated charcoal, though I don’t know how they get it down a cat that doesn’t want it.
Gotta disagree with RickJay about wet food as the cause here. All my cats eat mainly wet (canned) food, with a little extra water added, per the vet’s recommendation to reduce risk of urinary tract disease that’s common in cats. They get dry food only as an occasional treat or between-meal snack. Never a flatulence problem here.
My suspicion is that the kitten may have worms, particularly since he did have fleas not long ago. Take a fecal sample to the vet (though these are not always conclusive) and get a worming treatment.
Note: The wormer may need to be given more than once. First dose kills the live worms but not the eggs; next dose kills the newly hatched generation before they can reproduce. Proper timing is therefore essential. The vet will give you instructions.
While you’re at it, you might want to ask about food too. Could be a food allergy or some other digestion problem. (Many cats can’t digest milk, for instance - though you didn’t mention that he gets any of that.)
Anyway, the vet is your best resource, IMO, and this is probably a minor issue that is easily fixed.
No we are not giving the kitty any dairy…We heard the same thing Lyn said from the vet…He actually did have worms when we got him, the vet gave him one treatment and the next one is coming in two weeks. We also called the breeder because this kitty was not an inexpensive cat…and to have these problems was not acceptable. She (the breeder) said the stud she got this time was different…and he was most likely the cause.
I think it was the other animals she was keeping…yeah she had some nice siamese kats…but it was the other animals that I was concerned about…large iguana, pot bellied pig etc…etc…Anywhoo, He’s going to the vet again soon and will get the final treatment for the worms, and his last shots…
We’ll stick away from dairy…and limit his soft food…even though he does love it when I feed it to him…I usually put some warm water in with the dry kibble as well!
I had a cat that I fed Purina Cat Chow and she had terrible flatulence and poop. I changed her diet to Science Diet Weight Loss formula (She was also fat) and it cured both the flatulence and she pooped less and the stink factor went way down.
