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Diet Problems
Some of you have had problems keeping special-diet food separated from
kitties with different dietary needs. It can be daunting, can't it? Hobo is diabetic and on a high-protein diet. He has a special prescription DM food, both dry and canned, and fortunately likes it and eats both with gusto. However, Speckles has a kidney problem, currently has lost over two-thirds of kidney function. She also likes Hobo's food, which is, of course, the complete opposite of what's good for her. They are fed in different rooms but Speckles finds ways to get to it. She was prescribed K/D food last summer but refused to touch it, still does. Her vet says that's not uncommon and has given her a special prescription food, which she ate heartily the first couple of days. No more!! She won't even sniff at it!! So, while I feel like I'm murdering my kitty, I've given in and reverted to her beloved Fancy Feast, which isn't good for her but beats starving, and believe me, she *does* starve herself rather than give in to K/D or the special Eukanaba. But I think FF is better than the diabetes-management food and try to keep her out of *that*. Once a vet would give my non-eating cat a dose of Valium which would make a cat eat *anything*. It worked but was only a temporary Band-Aid treatment. Maybe I should try that and *force* her to eat the prescribed food. Jeanne Jeanne Hajos spamguard u is i, and not is net) === "Anger improves nothing except the arch of a cat's back." --- Coleman Cox My SETI team: http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/s...am_125874.html |
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wrote on 7/11/04 9:20AM: Some of you have had problems keeping special-diet food separated from kitties with different dietary needs. It can be daunting, can't it? Hobo is diabetic and on a high-protein diet. He has a special prescription DM food, both dry and canned, and fortunately likes it and eats both with gusto. However, Speckles has a kidney problem, currently has lost over two-thirds of kidney function. She also likes Hobo's food, which is, of course, the complete opposite of what's good for her. They are fed in different rooms but Speckles finds ways to get to it. She was prescribed K/D food last summer but refused to touch it, still does. Her vet says that's not uncommon and has given her a special prescription food, which she ate heartily the first couple of days. No more!! She won't even sniff at it!! So, while I feel like I'm murdering my kitty, I've given in and reverted to her beloved Fancy Feast, which isn't good for her but beats starving, and believe me, she *does* starve herself rather than give in to K/D or the special Eukanaba. But I think FF is better than the diabetes-management food and try to keep her out of *that*. Once a vet would give my non-eating cat a dose of Valium which would make a cat eat *anything*. It worked but was only a temporary Band-Aid treatment. Maybe I should try that and *force* her to eat the prescribed food. Jeanne Jeanne Hajos spamguard u is i, and not is net) === "Anger improves nothing except the arch of a cat's back." --- Coleman Cox My SETI team: http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/s...am_125874.html My vet said she used to prescibe strict prescription diet for her kidney kits, but after a while with the number that wouldn't eat at all, it has become her policy to get them to eat period whatever they will as that causes less complications than not eating at all, which is what can happen. If it eases your mind any, I believe there is a healthy debate going on in the vet community that it is perhaps NOT a low protien diet that is the answer and some believe higher protien diets are more important. I say as long as you get her to eat it is better than not. |
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On Sun, 11 Jul 2004 11:42:11 -0500, Karen Chuplis
wrote: If it eases your mind any, I believe there is a healthy debate going on in the vet community that it is perhaps NOT a low protien diet that is the answer and some believe higher protien diets are more important. I say as long as you get her to eat it is better than not. Yes, it *does* ease my mind. Thank you. I've been truly concerned about it - we've resigned ourselves to the fact that we're going to lose Speckles since she has only 1/3 kidney function and has lost a pound in the past month - but I want her last to be "happy meals" and if she enjoys what allegedly is not good for her, well, I guess that's all right. Jeanne |
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On Sun, 11 Jul 2004 11:42:11 -0500, Karen Chuplis
wrote: If it eases your mind any, I believe there is a healthy debate going on in the vet community that it is perhaps NOT a low protien diet that is the answer and some believe higher protien diets are more important. I say as long as you get her to eat it is better than not. Yes, it *does* ease my mind. Thank you. I've been truly concerned about it - we've resigned ourselves to the fact that we're going to lose Speckles since she has only 1/3 kidney function and has lost a pound in the past month - but I want her last to be "happy meals" and if she enjoys what allegedly is not good for her, well, I guess that's all right. Jeanne |
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Jeanne, I sort of had to face that with my RB kitty Frodo who had both
kidney and liver problems. They started to show up when he was around 15. He wouldn't eat the special foods either so I decided that quality of life was most important for him and I let him eat his food. In other ways I managed his conditions with daily lactacted ringer fluids for his kidneys and prednisone for his liver. He lived to be 3 weeks shy of 21 and actually had a good quality of life up until the last few months. Christine "JBHajos" wrote in message ... Some of you have had problems keeping special-diet food separated from kitties with different dietary needs. It can be daunting, can't it? Hobo is diabetic and on a high-protein diet. He has a special prescription DM food, both dry and canned, and fortunately likes it and eats both with gusto. However, Speckles has a kidney problem, currently has lost over two-thirds of kidney function. She also likes Hobo's food, which is, of course, the complete opposite of what's good for her. They are fed in different rooms but Speckles finds ways to get to it. She was prescribed K/D food last summer but refused to touch it, still does. Her vet says that's not uncommon and has given her a special prescription food, which she ate heartily the first couple of days. No more!! She won't even sniff at it!! So, while I feel like I'm murdering my kitty, I've given in and reverted to her beloved Fancy Feast, which isn't good for her but beats starving, and believe me, she *does* starve herself rather than give in to K/D or the special Eukanaba. But I think FF is better than the diabetes-management food and try to keep her out of *that*. Once a vet would give my non-eating cat a dose of Valium which would make a cat eat *anything*. It worked but was only a temporary Band-Aid treatment. Maybe I should try that and *force* her to eat the prescribed food. Jeanne Jeanne Hajos spamguard u is i, and not is net) === "Anger improves nothing except the arch of a cat's back." --- Coleman Cox My SETI team: http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/s...am_125874.html |
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Jeanne, I sort of had to face that with my RB kitty Frodo who had both
kidney and liver problems. They started to show up when he was around 15. He wouldn't eat the special foods either so I decided that quality of life was most important for him and I let him eat his food. In other ways I managed his conditions with daily lactacted ringer fluids for his kidneys and prednisone for his liver. He lived to be 3 weeks shy of 21 and actually had a good quality of life up until the last few months. Christine "JBHajos" wrote in message ... Some of you have had problems keeping special-diet food separated from kitties with different dietary needs. It can be daunting, can't it? Hobo is diabetic and on a high-protein diet. He has a special prescription DM food, both dry and canned, and fortunately likes it and eats both with gusto. However, Speckles has a kidney problem, currently has lost over two-thirds of kidney function. She also likes Hobo's food, which is, of course, the complete opposite of what's good for her. They are fed in different rooms but Speckles finds ways to get to it. She was prescribed K/D food last summer but refused to touch it, still does. Her vet says that's not uncommon and has given her a special prescription food, which she ate heartily the first couple of days. No more!! She won't even sniff at it!! So, while I feel like I'm murdering my kitty, I've given in and reverted to her beloved Fancy Feast, which isn't good for her but beats starving, and believe me, she *does* starve herself rather than give in to K/D or the special Eukanaba. But I think FF is better than the diabetes-management food and try to keep her out of *that*. Once a vet would give my non-eating cat a dose of Valium which would make a cat eat *anything*. It worked but was only a temporary Band-Aid treatment. Maybe I should try that and *force* her to eat the prescribed food. Jeanne Jeanne Hajos spamguard u is i, and not is net) === "Anger improves nothing except the arch of a cat's back." --- Coleman Cox My SETI team: http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/s...am_125874.html |
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