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My senior cat has intermittent loose stools. What's the cause?

Updated On September 23rd, 2025

Pet's info: Cat | Chartreux | Female | spayed | 17 years and 1 month old | 7.2 lbs

i have a 17 year old cat and for unknown reasons she gets loose stool time to time

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Answered By Kevin Sanada, DVM

Veterinarian

Published on May 14th, 2018

This is suspicious of chronic diarrhea, which is not specific to any one condition and would eventually require a vet evaluation and some testing in order to discover the cause of this. Below is a link to a good article that explains the various causes of chronic diarrhea. https://www.petcoach.co/article/most-common-causes-of-diarrhea-in-cats/ I hope that helps and Luna gets better soon.

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