Did your cat have diarrhea with friskies or whiskas? I don't have experience with Eureka. What is the ingredients? If your kitten have good bowel movement with whiskas or friskies, go back feeding with it & slowly change to new food. Example; 1st day 90% whiskas/friskies + 10% & slowly reduced the old food and increase the new food ratio over the next 7 days.

If your kitten also have diarrhea with friskies & whiskas, you might want hold food for 24 hours. 5 months old is old enough for this. Make sure your kitten always have access to clean drinking water. Then give your cat boiled chicken. You may need to feed your kitten with boiled chicken a couple of times until diarrhea subside. Then slowly feed your cat Eureka.

Coincidently I did read an article this afternoon about Probiotics. It can be given to cats with diarrhea to introduce helpful bacteria into the digestive tract. I can see why you want to try Eureka.

This article may helps: http://messybeast.com/handrear.htm

Mother cat's milk always the best. When the mother cat breast feeding her other kittens, you can try slowly put the kitten near the mother cat so that it can breast feed too. Usually when breast feeding, the mother cat won't mind. Don't leave the kitten unattended because you may need to take the kitten away when the mother cat get angry.

Most of us will have some experiences on this issue. Yeah, the anti-tick & flea shampoo is not really affective. The spray type also not really affective but I only tested a couple of products. I use Detick tick & flea drops. One small bottle for two cats. Just need to apply on the back of their neck, between the shoulder blade. Kills tick & flea in 24 hours & it protected my cats for months. I think it already 6 - 7 months or more now since I last apply it to my cats.

Depending on how many cats I'm feeding I usually give more. You may need to feeds with boiled chicken for several times/days to give digestive tract a chance to rest and recover. Then slowly resume the regular food. If your cat have diarrhea again after changing back to old food, you may want to change the food. Boiled chicken is only for short term solution. Long term solution you need more balanced food. Maybe cat food that contain Probiotics. I read Probiotics made for humans are also often more beneficial, because they contain more than one strain of bacteria. You can mixed it with your cat food.

I also sometime have problem with kittens having diarrhea. I might try Probiotics myself.

It is alright. I also mixed little amount of rice with wet food for my kittens. When they was 4 weeks old, I introduced wet food to them & they like it. A couple days later I noticed soft stool. Then I started to mixed little amount of rice & this helps. I no longer found soft stool. Rice give your cat energy & add fiber to their diet. Rice can be helpful to cat's digestion.

This post has been edited by kizwan: Feb 24 2015, 10:10 PM

Farting usually indicate upset tummy. Did their poop look soft?

Boiled chicken is the best home remedy for upset tummy & diarrhea. Feed your cat boiled chicken a couple of times & then slowly resume feeding with the current cat food.

I also have use crystal litter & it's the best I've ever tried. They're little expensive, YMMV depends on which/what brands available at your local pet shop. I don't remember the brand but it was RM30 & it's only small bag. The problem with non-clumping litter it depends on good air circulation & how many cat using the litter. My house is an old house, some parts of the house didn't get good air circulation. Because of this the crystal litter only lasted for a week. It supposed to lasted for 3 - 4 weeks with only one cat using it. So it's not economical to me. But it's still the best in controlling odour.

I'm using Purina Tidy Cat too. I actually use three types of litter at the moment; regular (Clean N Easy brand) clumping sand litter, Purina Tidy Cat & pine wood (Paw Mark brand) cat litter. The place where it don't get good air circulation, I use the clumping sand litter. The Purina Tidy Cat can lasted up to 3 - 4 weeks but this probably because I topup with fresh Tidy Cat every week.

I also tried recycled paper litter. I like it but my local pet shop don't carry them.



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Not long, until it cooked. It's up to you, you can mix with rice. Just little amount of rice.

Ask your mom to feed your cat with cat wet food.

If you can't afford & the vet offer to adopt/take care the cat, then you should agree. Look on the bright side, the cat can get proper treatment now & the chance to recover is much better.

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I think worm is what cause the blood in the stool. Parasitic worms such as hookworm or roundworms suck the blood from the intestinal wall, resulting in blood in the stool. Your cat probably need de-worming.

By pet shop, do you mean they do have animal clinic there? The vet is actually a vet?

When it involve lost of appetite, you really need to consult vet immediately. If your cat vomiting after eating, you should change to different cat food. You also can try wet food. When my cats got sick I fed them with wet food or boiled chicken. Wet food also good in case the sick cat don't drink enough.

My 5 - 6 months kittens also got sick lately, cat flu. One of them really bad, watery eyes & mouth. The vet said they all don't have fever which is good. The prescribed pills worked quickly too, after 24 to 48 hours, no more watery eyes & mouth. Only one lost appetite for a day but start eating again the next day. With the heat season lately, I need to turn on the A/C to maintain room temperature between 30 to 32 Celsius, especially between 11 to 5 p.m.. I'm just afraid the heat might slow down their recovery or worsen their condition. 34C during heat season feels like 40C.

I hope your cat get well soon.

I feed all my cats with non-grain-free cat food. None of my cats become fat or chubby. There are a couple of cats that look slightly chubby but it's because they have bigger body than the other cats. For example, see picture below. Both kittens are same age. Imagine what the bigger kitten look like now. It actually look like little chubby but not fat or overweight.



Neutered/spayed cat can get fat & overweight but it doesn't mean they necessarily will get fat & overweight. Like spunkberry said, it's all about lifestyle & how much you feed your cat. BTW, I feed my cat twice a day & I make sure I didn't over feed them. I also don't like give them treats between meals.

I just want to say, regardless what brand or what kind of food you feed your cat, fat & overweight cat is bad, as much as malnutrition is bad to cat.

I don't agree with the bold part. Malnutrition cat won't look fit. They would look sick.

Yes, smartsift only suitable for clumping style litter. Even non-clumping sand litter also not suitable because it's enclosed space & this will make the non-clumping litter expired way earlier than it should be.

Some of my cats also don't want to use it when the door closed but I probably didn't left the door closed long enough for these cats to learn. The ones that have no problem using it even the door closed because I leave the door closed. BTW, I have two smartsift. That's why there's one have door closed & the other one opened. Anyway, I opened the door on both smartsift anyway because the place where I put the smartsift allow the cat to jump to the smartsift (from high place like cabinet). The door parts kinda flimsy, I don't want it to break, so I opened the doors. It also good idea to keep the door open too because my naughty cat like to pull & bite & tear the black filter thing on top of the smartsift. The clumping litter I use very good in controlling odour anyway.

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It's easy. If your cat is not overweight, then your cat is not overfeed. Cat like to eat a little at a time but frequently. Basically, they eat, they play, they poop, they eat, they sleep, they eat, they play, they eat.....

Wet food is different story of course. Cats will clean out the plate in just one sitting.

It's hot season anyway. Cats can be more sensitive than us human. They will drink more. Everyday I usually need to refill one drinking bowl twice a day but currently I need to refill two bowls twice a day (evening & early morning).

2 - 3 days? That's quick. Too quick. Worst case scenario should be a week. How many cats share the litter box? Maybe adding another litter box, you know, splitting the load.

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Some of my cats sleep like that but not with the front legs like that.

Sorry, not cat but anak musang.

My tenant's anak musang.





This cat, Mel, like to relax/rest like this after playing.

As long as it doesn't caught in the mouth, it should be ok. I mean if it loose enough for it to take off on their own.

The supermarket brand wet food should be ok as long as it contains real meat. I feed Friskies wet food to my cats for years. I also sometime feed ProDiet wet food to my cats.

Yes, it is ok.

(Boiled) Fish mixed with rice is regular meal for cats in Malaysia. This what folks at kampung feed their cats since I can remember. I don't remember any of the cats got sick or malnutrition. Then again these are outdoor cats that also hunt & eat small rodents like mouse. So malnutrition is not an issue.

Anyway, basically it's like a custom or tradition for us to feed fish to our cats. Nowadays, many people like to feed their cat with commercial pet food but then again many of cat food in Malaysia contain fish.

My oldest cats grow up with tuna & sardine (canned pet food) mixed with kibbles & they turn out great. Nowadays, I try my best to reduced the amount of tuna I feed to my cats. However I live in small town, not many choice of wet food that doesn't contain fish. Actually no choice at all.

I did read about the fish & mercury issue. Since then I did reduced the amount of tuna when feeding my cats. I'm still feeding my cats with pet food that contains sardine.


I'm currently dealing with cat flu, two weeks now, but since a couple days ago, few of my other cats got eye infection with one cat kinda serious. Basically 7 cats got cat flu, currently slowly recovering & 4 cats got eye infection on the right eyes.

For the 7 cats that got cat flu, the fever+antibiotic tablets already run out but they're recovering now albeit slowly. The only symptoms left are sneezing & a couple of them watery eyes little bit. Two still got inflamed eyes because their eyes inflamed a bit later than the other cats. I have eye drops medicine to take care of this. I quarantine them in two rooms; 3 kittens including their mother in one room (the mother got eye infection on the right eyes probably from her kittens. The eyes still look ok & remain ok since I detected it but she seems feels uncomfortable with the right eye with the right eye lid not fully opened. Hopefully the eye drops medicine work fast.) & another 4 kittens (stray cats, fresh & hungry too because they seems don't know where to go) in the living room in two 3-storey cages. The good news is they didn't loose appetite & they're recovering well, just need to monitor the two cats that have inflamed eyes but even the inflamed parts already slowly shrink.

For the 4 cats that got eye infection on the right eyes, all of them have identical symptom. The right eye lid is closed & if opened, not fully. Out of the 4, the eyes on the 3 cats remains ok, not clouding or inflamed. The vet told me to give eye drops anyway. One quite serious, most of the time the right eye lid remain closed. The vet told me if I waited any longer the eye can go blind. It happened pretty quick. I detected it on the Friday evening & I only able to bring it to the clinic on Monday because the clinic closed on the weekends. The right eyes already clouding on Monday. I think my effort to clean dry out pus on the right eye lid over the weekend with clean water make it worse. The right eye lid was remain closed which probably bad idea because the water I use to clean the eye lid got in & trapped in there. I'm thinking wet = bacteria. I don't know how she got the infection because I already quarantined her in a cage when my other cats started getting cat flu. I already moved her to the front bed room, quarantine her in there alone. She can roam freely in there. The other two in living room (the other one, the mother cat I mentioned earlier in the front room with her kittens). Currently no to little discharge on the right eye anymore & the eye lid can be open a little bit. It's now third day I apply eye drops to the eyes of these cats. Hopefully they get better quick.

Basically these rooms are cleared for sick cats only because easier for us to monitor them:-

1. the living room (two 3-storey cages for the 4 kittens that have cat flu, one 3-storey cage for a kitten with eye infection - actually only caged her at night to limit her movement, and one male cat roam freely - this one like to sleep all the time which is why I'm not worried of him roaming freely)
2. the front bedroom (only one cat with serious right eye infection I mentioned earlier)
3. the front room (the mother cat with right eye infection & her 3 kittens with cat flu)

There are 4 cats that doesn't get any infection that I already moved & quarantined in the middle bed room. For good measure I quarantined them in three 3-storeys cages. Unfortunately I heard one of the cats sneezing a couple of times. Hopefully not cat flu. No symptom yet.

The ones that didn't get cat flu, including the ones that got eye infection already got cat flu before. However, except one, all of them didn't get full blown cat flu, just sneezing & watery eyes because I also quarantined them last time.

Sorry, I'm really worried & feels the need to talk to somebody. That's why I wrote this in the forum.

Do you mean the back of the cat ear? I ask because ear mites occur in the ears. http://www.catsofaustralia.com/ear-mites-cats.htm

If the back of the cat ear, probably just need to apply tick & flea medicine. My favourite is drops type one, very affective.

Thank you!

You need both; tick & flea drop & ear drop. Ear drop sometime available at pet store but if it already in serious condition like inflammation and/or bleeding in the ears, better see vet.