My cat’s on her fourth bag of the adult cat & kitten formula (I got her from the shelter before that), and while she was fine on it for the first couple bags, on her fourth bag (so a couple months into her eating it, maybe at the beginning of May), she began having diarrhea and it happened about three or four times in the span of one month. She also had a weird stretch where she didn’t poo for three days and I was seriously worried, as there’s obviously something wrong with that when she normally does it once a day, and at the same time at that. There’s something fishy going on.

Some more food for thought – I first bought Orijen at the recommendation of a pet store owner – she said people and their pets love it, she hasn’t had any negative reviews. Then after my cat began having tummy problems, I went to another pet store. The woman there told me that Orijen can and actually does (slowly) *kill* your cat, because there is too much meat in it, and their kidneys wear out due to being overworked all the time. So she made it sound very very dangerous. Later, I went to another pet store. The lady in the third store told me that Orijen is only dangerous to dogs because of the meat/kidney thing, but not really to cats – although she still recommended that I switch over to another brand that had less meat in it.

So, altogether, I’ve been told many very different things. My cat seems to be doing okay for the last week or two, and is not having tummy problems anymore (for now). Her coat is shiny and she looks healthy, but that stretch of diarrhea and constipation really made me think, and I’ll probably begin to start phasing out Orijen once the current bag is half empty.

As a new cat owner, I’m annoyed that it’s so hard to decipher what’s truly best for our beloved pets.

So I too suspect a change in Champion’s formula. And now I don’t know WHAT to think.

Anybody else out there encountering problems with more recent purchases of Orijen for their cats?