Changes in Fecal Odor Intensity Associated with Feeding Domestic Cats Two Diets Formulated for Body Weight Management

Abstract

For six domestic cats, six grades of odor intensity associated with diets of two kinds for body weight management were evaluated by measuring changes in fecal odor intensity. When one food, which contained highly digestible and hydrolyzed proteins and higher amounts of fibers, was consumed, the scores of three of the six cats were remarkably lower than those obtained with the other, which is not known to contain the above-described proteins and contained lower amounts of fibers. Results suggest that the diet composition show the possibility to influence the fecal odor intensity, although the study was done with a small number of cats and so cannot show an assertive result.