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My cat has loose, foul-smelling stool, gas, and accidents. Help!

Updated On September 23rd, 2025

Pet's info: Cat | Mixed Breed | Female | spayed | 9 lbs

My daughters cat is about 1.5 years old. She’s an indoor/outdoor cat. She’s always seemed to have loose stool. I changed her cat food to a higher quality cat food (she only eats dry food) and it seems to become more runny. It smells very foul, she has always been gassy a couple times I’ve noticed she’ll leave a small piece of stool where she’s sitting before she goes to her box like she doesn’t have the best control or is having wet gas? With the shelter in place I can’t get a vet appt.

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Answered By Dr. Melanie, BVSc MS

Veterinarian

Published on April 10th, 2020

I can give you a home remedy for Juniper to see if that helps. Feed her a bland diet of boiled white meat chicken (no bones) in small amounts several times a day for a couple of days. Then slowly add back in her normal diet. If the diarrhea continues on the bland diet, she vomits the bland diet, she refuses to eat the bland diet, stops drinking water, starts vomiting water, or becomes very lethargic, she will need to see a vet right away. I hope this helps!

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