Our kitten stinks us out of the room when he enters the litter box. Why does his poop smell so bad?

Question

Seriously, we have to literally get out of the room. We're thinking he must have worms, but then again, he got dewormed already. He only eats dry food. Help....

We clean out the litter box twice a day!

Answer 1

kitty poo stinks. even when no worms. kitty poo stinks. worse than dog farts, almost. and kittens eat a lot.....make sure the food you fweed is the good stuff--no purina or low quality grocery store stuff. there are fancy feast types with no fillers. iuse those when i am not near a pet food store to get the good hills or eukaneuba or others that are not so easily obtained.

kittens need lots and lots of nourishment because they grow so fast. good to have the dry food out all the time--supplement it with wet food 3 oz 3 times every day. kitty willhave softer fur--they need the oils in the wet food. there is no perfect kitty food--my vet always saiud to let feed on dry and give wet 3-5 times daily up to 1 year of age, then cut to 1 can /day.
my kitten is still on 3 / day.....

if there is a way to leave the window open where the litter pan is.....
i keep a litter pan in the bathroom, and , as my kitten is a boat kitten, i leave one in the cockpit of the boat, as well. my kitty does not like to smell his stinkies, so he prefers to use the cockpit pan for poo. when he uses the bethroom pan, he runs out of the bathroom very fast to get rid of the stinkies.....

and i use the baking soda multi cat happy tails hard clumping low track litter.
kitties are sensitive to sprays, so that is not an option, but i have heard that natures miracle litter is also good.

try placing pan in bathroom and opening the window and using natures miracle litter......

good luck, and enjoy yur kitten.....

Answer 2

Read the label on the bag of food you are feeding him. If the first ingredient is by-product meat and the next two corn products (most grocery store foods and Science Diet) you are feeding him a food that he cannot digest well. What isn't disgested and used for the cat's body for nutrition will come out the other end in voluminous and stinky poop.

Try the kitten on a good quality canned meat - Natural Balance, Wellness, Lick Your Chops. Those have high qualtiy meat protein (60%) which cats need for nutrition and there will be less poop and it won't stink as much. He does not need "kitten" food - just species appropriate cat food! Mother cats don't bring their kittens special "kitten" mice when they wean them to their species appropriate diet.

Good dry foods which the same high quality ingredients include the Natural Balance, Eagle Pack, Solid Gold, Felidae, CA Natural etc.

The kitten can have both - a can of meat per day and dry food for snacking during the day.

Answer 3

Hi there...many of the commercially available cat food products sold in supermarkets and larger pet stores contain corn, corn meal which ferment as it broken down within the digestive system leading to very stinky poo. Feeding human food as treats also can contribute to smelly poo as well. However, this also depends on the animal's genetics as well. Like humans, when two people eat the very same thing one person's business may stink to high heaven moreso than another (we can't compare our own poo since we'd obviously be biased.) I have two cats who's genetic makeup are quite different from one another (F1 Bengal --1/2 wild & 1/2 domestic -- and Abyssinian). They both eat the same identical high premium quality foods yet the Bengal's poo is so strong it would make a good substitute for chloroform, where the Aby's isn't so bad and is very tolerable.

Some of the high protein cat foods (which contains no corn based products or byproducts) found only at specialty pet stores such as Innova EVO, Life's Abundance, Nature's Variety Prairie may help minimize the stinky calling cards, but again it truly depends on the cat's genetic makeup. They are quite expensive compared to the supermarket brands, but if your intended goal is to lower the overall gas chamber effect you may need to experiment which works best.

Answer 4

More than likely it's the food that the kitten is eating.
It simply may not agree with him.
Trying a different brand of kitten food, make sure it's kitten food.
Sometimes cat food is just to strong for a kittens little tummy.

He could still have worms even though you have wormed him.
Roundworms are killed by one kind of medication while tape worms require a different kind.

But please DO NO by OTC wormer for your kitten, take him to the Vet so that if the problem is worms the Vet will be able to tell you what kinds of worms they are, and give you the right dosage for your kittens age and weight.

Good luck

Answer 5

Could be the type of food you are feeding your cat. I was feeding my cat Iams for the longest time and I heard Blu Spa was a better quality..and I always want the best for my cat.... so I switched. That was a mistake because Blu Spa made her stink SO bad the she would be running away from her litterbox like a bat out of hell.

Answer 6

Sorry, but you deal with it till the kitten grows up. Mine is 6 months old, and is finally starting to not chase us out of the room.

We ended up getting a "Litter Maid" and an Ion Air Cleaner - and those help, but she will still overwhelm us every once in a while.

The vet says it's normal, and just deal with it till their GI system fully develops.

Answer 7

It might be his underdeveloped digestive system if he is still really young, or it might be the food itself, that he is eating. The only other thing I can think it might be is an infection, I would check and see if the droppings are solid or loose, and if they are loose then would probably need to take him to the vet and have him checked out. Dont be surprised if they ask you to bring a sample in so they can test is for infection or other parasites. Hope this helps good luck

Answer 8

What kind of dry food are you feeding him? Most of the lower quality "grocery store" pet foods are made mostly of fillers and non-digestable ingredients. Try gradually switching him over to a premium food, like Nutro. When I adopted my last cat, they fed Purina at the shelter, and boy was this cats rear end lethal, though Im sure you are all to familiar with this scent. I switched him over to Nutro Kitten dry, and though his butt will never smell like roses, its not nearly as noxious as it was before.

Answer 9

I woud try a better cat food for the kitty. A few years ago I had a cat that had the same problem and it was the food the whole time. Good luck!

Answer 10

Try changing kitty's litter box more often. Kitty is probably pawing and stirring up the old poops ... that is what you smell.

If kitty's box is in a living area ... move it. What would you smell if someone took a poop in your living or bedroom?