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My two cats are currently eating a variety of Weruva canned food and Tiki Cat. They eat the fish varieties and chicken. I recently switched both my cats to an all wet food diet due to urinary issues. One of my cats was taken to the ER for crystals. The vet sent me home with a few Royal Canin S/O cans. They said after his crystals clear he is fine to eat any brand of wet food.
Would it be in my cats best interest to steer clear of fish flavors or is it okay to give it to them 2x-3x a week?
I give my cats 6oz each a day of wet food.
Any recommendations on food or ways I can improve their health?
My two cats are currently eating a variety of Weruva canned food and Tiki Cat. They eat the fish varieties and chicken. I recently switched both my cats to an all wet food diet due to urinary issues. One of my cats was taken to the ER for crystals. The vet sent me home with a few Royal Canin S/O cans. They said after his crystals clear he is fine to eat any brand of wet food.
Would it be in my cats best interest to steer clear of fish flavors or is it okay to give it to them 2x-3x a week?
I give my cats 6oz each a day of wet food.
Any recommendations on food or ways I can improve their health?
I suggest dry food. Our cat (before my divorce) was a Persian type who of course was as big as they come. As it turned out though, she had little hair compared to her body fat. So we took her to the vet and she put her on a diet which was dry food. I'd recommend the brand but I can't recall at the moment, but it is diet food, but most important, healthy. Of course you will need a bowl of water for hydration. As a treat, you can give her a can of tuna fish once a week, because, well, she's been on a diet and every so often deserves a 'down day'
My two cats are currently eating a variety of Weruva canned food and Tiki Cat. They eat the fish varieties and chicken. I recently switched both my cats to an all wet food diet due to urinary issues. One of my cats was taken to the ER for crystals. The vet sent me home with a few Royal Canin S/O cans. They said after his crystals clear he is fine to eat any brand of wet food.
Would it be in my cats best interest to steer clear of fish flavors or is it okay to give it to them 2x-3x a week?
I give my cats 6oz each a day of wet food.
Any recommendations on food or ways I can improve their health?
Hello and welcome to the forum! Good job getting your cats on a better diet! Sounds like you have a good vet, if s/he is recommending a wet diet. Dry food is so bad for them for so many reasons.
I would eliminate all fish. Tiki Cat does have one food that is not fishy, the chicken formula. Weruva has a lot of non fish varieties, but stick to the grain free ones.
You could add into their rotation By Nature Organic. I feed it to my cat who has feline lower urinary tract disease, she forms struvite crystals (she eats the By Nature organic in a rotation with a raw diet).
You want to keep to lower carbohydrate foods as part of the rotation, as they are better for cats with urinary issues.
To help you find some other foods here is a list of canned foods, with their protein, fat, and carbohydrate percentages, that a vet has compiled, from information given to her by the manufacturers of the foods.
I suggest dry food. Our cat (before my divorce) was a Persian type who of course was as big as they come. As it turned out though, she had little hair compared to her body fat. So we took her to the vet and she put her on a diet which was dry food. I'd recommend the brand but I can't recall at the moment, but it is diet food, but most important, healthy. Of course you will need a bowl of water for hydration. As a treat, you can give her a can of tuna fish once a week, because, well, she's been on a diet and every so often deserves a 'down day'
It's good you took your cat to the vet before trying to reduce her weight but:
This is not good advice. Not only is dry food terrible for cats, tuna also is not good for cats. Tuna is high in heavy metals and minerals and salt. All bad, for cats.
Dry food is not good for cats who need to lose weight. Dry food, especially prescription "diet" foods are very high in grain, corn especially, and high in carbohydrates. None of it is good for cats. Cats need high meat protein, and a wet diet, to maintain a healthy weight and proper hydration.
As for the cat in the original post, dry food would be absolutely the worst thing for him. Cats with urinary tract problems should be on a wet diet, it could save his life.
One thing that I'd suggest, having a pair of water-averse neutered males, is that you might wish to add water to their canned food when you give it to them. I have found that to be an excellent way of keeping our cats well-hydrated, which of course is crucial if you have a cat with urinary tract problems. I'd also suggest becoming a label-reader, and avoiding foods that list any grains of any kind as an ingredient.
Cats in the wild get most or all of their liquids from the food they eat, rarely drinking water for its own sake. Even though we make water available to our domesticated felines, many of them have little interest in drinking it. That's not a blanket statement by any means - of course I know there are cats that happily lap up large quantities of water. But if you've got kitties with urinary issues, it would be prudent to ensure that they're ingesting enough fluids to keep everything moving along nicely.
Our cats are on a pretty limited food regimen, since both of them are little garbage-pail kitties who'd eat themselves into an early grave if we let them free-feed. They get fed three times a day, mostly Nature's Variety Instinct grain-free canned varieties with a special treat once or twice a week of one of the grain-free Tiki-Cat fish flavors. For each cat at each meal, I mix in about a quarter to a third of a cup of water, stirring the food into the water to make a sort of slurry or soup. They slurp and gobble it down greedily, even though neither of them will touch plain water.
Good luck to you and your kitties - I hope they do well!
Please use the archives to find the many threads on here about proper nutrition for cats. here is just one I started some time ago. Many regular posters have tremendous knowledge on this subject and have been incredible generous with sharing it with us. don't let their efforts go to waste. One thing most of us agree on is that dry is bad and we should avoid any grain.
Well, I'll add here. I dont want to disrupt that perfect thread
Every other can in the isle has grain fillers. Why, it's wet food, same price and size too? Kitty doesn't like beef, but loves extra stinky canned ocean fish. I used to get the fish/shrimp mix, which is pretty much whole fish flakes with embryo sized shrimp (don't know any other way to describe them, I've never seen such shrimp). Since he ate around the shrimp, I just get the fish dinner, which isn't flakes but puree. Ingredients are something like water, fish, salt and vitamins; something I would eat. Due to the fish being low on the food chain (haddock) mercury isn't a problem.
Mine have eaten Tiki in the past but I find it expensive for fish! So I feed them fish as do a few others on here. Trader Joes brand and Whole Food's brand Tuna, Salmon, Crab - packed in water and no salt added. If you buy market brand packed fish please be aware of ingredients added like soy and how much sodium as it adds up fast in their little bodies.
I also will lightly cook off some frozen fish fillets (white fish like tilapia) or shrimp when I have it. They've also been known to be rewarded with a scallop or two Can you spell SPOILED ROTTEN!!!
As far as canned - I buy the weruva chicken (paw licken not grandma's as they won't eat the veggies) I have tried to cook down and shred chicken breast and they wont touch it! They will however eat the left overs from a store bought roast chicken if I pick it for them. Again, spoiled brats
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So we took her to the vet and she put her on a diet which was dry food. I'd recommend the brand but I can't recall at the moment, but it is diet food, but most important, healthy. Of course you will need a bowl of water for hydration. As a treat, you can give her a can of tuna fish once a week, because, well, she's been on a diet and every so often deserves a 'down day' 
