Hi

The history is below, but here is my question.   Do cat owners  who
feed  their cats all or a majority of dried  foods notice  that the
stools  are a lighter colour or passed less easily on tyhe dried
food  than on wet food.  ?     Any advice or opinions most welcomed.

Now in full health again it was about  6 weeks back my female 4  year
old cat had a bout  of digestive trouibles which appeared to start
acutely, within hours of bringing in a bird  that was  so cold  I
thought it could not have been a fresh kill.    By the following
morning she had  quite  runny  poo and and just wanted to rest but
picked up a good  bit  during the day  but the next day as I wanted
reassurance I went to a vet who  (inappropriately I thought)  gave a
vitamin injection intramuscularly .(which caused serious problems for
the cat for a couple of hours, falling off places, trembling and so
on)    I  say inappropropriate because she had not been sick  and had
not stopped  eating, and indeed it was a very early  stage of what was
(and proved to be)  a transient upset.  However,  the next day she
passed  some mucus  with the slighest streak of  blood, and maybe a
little within her stool the next time too.

I decided on a different  strategy.  It seemed to me that my cat was
eating dried food all the time  (and ignoring mostly  the wet food  I
put out  )  and so I tried a strict wet food only approach  and  even
after only one day on this new regime  I noticed that this caused her
stools  to more brown than the lighter color with no evidence of mucus
or blood  and a good improvement in her normal behaviour of  playing
and grooming which had been absent  for a  coiuple of days. and that
if she went in her litter box  (both my cats have access to outdoors
and will use the tray occasionally or  at night)   she passed her
stools more easily, in the same way as other cat.   Hence, I decided
that the dry food  which she so likes is actually not  the best option
for her.  I

But this wet meat business has now become an obsession for me.  I
still leave a tiny amount of dried food out  (not enough for even half
a days food  for both cats_  but enough for a nibble  and she
continues to be healthy and full of vitality.  But I had never noticed
problems before that bird incident.  The  lady cat always managed
dried  food  without incident.  The wet vs dried  food debate seems to
me  simple.  dried is lower qaulity protien, high in carbohydrates, a
lot of grain in there and so on, and despite extra  drinking by the
cat who relies on dried  food, it does not match the optimal hydration
which the animal gets from wet food.      All in all,. the evidence is
favor of wet meat but many owners swear that they have fed their
animals dried  food their whole lives  without problems.

I dont know why she always prefers the dried food.  I think its like a
blood  sugar high they get or something from nibbling that stuff,.
It surely  cannot be as nice  as the meat in the tin.