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We are feeding her both dry and wet food. We give her wet food twice a day, she eats very little - less than a tablespoon, and dry food is always there in case she'll get hungry.
She now eats that Meadley or something from Fancy Feast. Before we gave her FF. She likes fish more than meat.
I will schedule a visit to the vet just in case. She also throws up a lot. I did ask our vet about that and he said it's normal (???).
One of our cats started throwing up on a routine bases. He's about 14 years old. We took him to our vet and she did some blood work which came back fine, so she thought that he could have I guess the feline equivelant of esophageal reflux. So, she prescribed a "low sediment" food. Unfortunately you can only get it from the vet, and it's pretty pricey - $20 for a 5.5 lb bag. Luckily though, it's working very well. He still vomits occasionally, but it's very rare. We have to feed him seperately from the other cats (they can eat normal food) and that lets us get about 2 months out of a bag.
A good vet should be able to help you choose a food that works with his system, or explore other options. Good luck.
Unfortunate's an understatement -- because vets shouldn't be selling that stuff. They know nothing of dietary needs. Look at the ingredients.
A good vet telling you what to feed would be a Holistic veterinarian or nutritionalist/specialist. Regular vets do not study or know of nutriton-diet needs.
Too many heartbreaking stories due to dry diets, and miracles when they are fed what they're supposed to be eating (meat for obligate Carnivore).
You may want to find a new vet after researching the facts a little, and just check out those ingredients.
Incredible how they can "prescribe" corned cereal for sick animals. The stuff's not medicine, and there's nothing beneficial to a feline in there.
Where are the lawyers when you need them? Talk about FRAUD. One of my sister's babies just died hours ago (overnight after surgery). She just called. Spleen cancer.
Google it, and the proven detrimental effects of these foods. She switched to Innova this year, but he was already 11 -- too late.
Deegers, I am so grateful to you for the link you provided on cat nutrition. After reading it all in careful detail, I immediately discontinued using dry food and located several of the recommended canned foods (not up for grinding my own raw just yet...) that are grain free and have changed all my girls over to all meat canned food. It is more expensive for sure but compared to the consequences of a bad diet in medical problems, it seems a real bargain. But the only problem is that now I want to remove all dry food from every store in the country and harrass every pet owner into upgrading their canned food. Thank you so much for the link and my girls (Cuddles, Keeper & Emma), although crabby now without the dry they love, will likely live much healthier lives and be around much longer. So from the bottom of my heart, thank you. And to the rest of you cat people, please read what this very wise veterinarian has to say about how to best feed those kitties you love. It could save their lives!
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