in article , MarkF at
wrote on 9/3/03 9:43 PM:

I have a question regarding my cat with FLUTD. My cat had two
episodes of being blocked so the doctor recommended him eating a
prescription food, Hill's c/d-s. The cat would not eat it at all,
neither canned nor dry, so instead the doctor recommended that we put
Uroeze (Ammonium Chloride) in his normal wet food. This worked well
and the cat ate the food. Sometimes as a snack, my wife tried giving
him the dry Hill's c/d-s food and he began to eat that. Recently when
we spoke to the doctor he told us that the cat should not eat both
food, only one or the other.

This does not make much sense to me. The analogy that I used was if a
person was vitamin C deficient and a doctor said, "You can eat 10
oranges or 8 lemons a day", it would be perfectly legitimate to eat 5
oranges and 4 lemons and you should still get the same amount of
vitamin C. Or another analogy would be if you were trying to eat low
fat foods, you should be able to eat any low fat food, not just one.
The same logic should apply to the cat foods.

Has anyone else had experience with this? Any advice? Thanks!

Sincerely,

Mark

Wet is better than dry because of the extra water content, but since c/d is
specifically for the treatment of FLUTD, I'm not sure why dry as a snack
would be a no no from that standpoint, only that perhaps the doctor also
wants as much as possible. There are a couple of different vet brands for
this, but if he eats the c/d now, I guess I'd leave it at that. Also, put
bowls of water all over the house to remind him to drink.

Karen