u/BigMidnight3616

Sorry in advance, English isn’t my first language. I have a very playful and affectionate 2-year-old cat. A few months ago she had a blockage right at the exit of her stomach (calcified hairball clumps), had surgery to remove it plus 5 days of treatment, a new diet (gastro-support kibble and her favorite wet food), and now she’s doing better. But since then I’ve become a bit paranoid and I monitor her litter box visits closely (she literally almost died last time, so I’d rather keep an eye on things).
Anyway: she hadn’t pooped in 2 days, and she finally went, but she strained a lot, and an hour before that she had gone to scratch at the litter without producing anything. First she made one perfect poop, then a softer, lighter one — pale, maybe a bit orange or yellow? When I look at poop charts it looks kind of like a form of diarrhea, but it wasn’t much, and right before that (30 seconds earlier, during the same bathroom trip) the poop was normal.
Should I be worried? Or just monitor over the weekend and see how it goes? She’s eating and drinking normally, playing, etc. She was out of her usual kibble for 10 days and just started it again — could that be the cause? We’re also in France dealing with a pretty rough heatwave, and she threw up a hairball on Wednesday (today is Friday as I write this).
Anyway, I could use some advice.