Has this ever happened to you?

You’re scooping out your cat’s litter box when you see something alarming: blood in your cat’s stool. Just what does it mean if you see blood in cat poop? And how worried do you need to be?

Blood in your cat’s stool can vary in appearance. Bright red blood in stool (hematochezia) is fresh and black blood (melena) is older—it appears black because it’s been digested or partially digested by the cat. Black or tarry looking stool is an emergency.

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Video Navigation
0:00 Introduction
1:47 Hematochezia (Fresh Red Blood in Poop)
2:31 Melena (Dark, Digested Blood in Poop)
3:56 Causes of Hematochezia
5:20 Causes of Melena
8:35 What to Do If You See Blood in Your Cat’s Poop
10:12 Treatment of Blood in Cat Poop
11:39 Conclusion

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