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urinary blockage
Is it necessary to use prescription wet food for a cat who's blocked or will
any quality wet food do as well? The cat has been to the vet, been unblocked and sent home on antibiotics and anti-spasmodics. W |
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"Wendy" wrote in message ... Is it necessary to use prescription wet food for a cat who's blocked or will any quality wet food do as well? The cat has been to the vet, been unblocked and sent home on antibiotics and anti-spasmodics. W Use a good-quality canned food without grains. Wellness is a good choice. You can look up nutritional information on the petfooddirect.com web site. (Click on "details.") MaryL |
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On Mar 31, 8:03*am, "Wendy" wrote:
Is it necessary to use prescription wet food for a cat who's blocked or will any quality wet food do as well? The cat has been to the vet, been unblocked and sent home on antibiotics and anti-spasmodics. My personal opinion is that prescription cat food of any kind is primarily garbage. If you look at the ingredient list, there is some scary stuff on there. Prescription or not, it's just not a healthy choice. I prefer a high-quality, grain free wet diet. As MaryL mentioned, Wellness is excellent (make sure to get their grain free versions), as is Nature's Variety (canned or raw) and Innova. |
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"Rene S." wrote
My personal opinion is that prescription cat food of any kind is primarily garbage. If you look at the ingredient list, there is some scary stuff on there. Prescription or not, it's just not a healthy choice. I prefer a high-quality, grain free wet diet. As MaryL mentioned, Wellness is excellent (make sure to get their grain free versions), as is Nature's Variety (canned or raw) and Innova. Is 'Fancy Feast' reasonable? For a cat that is not blocked and never has been? After advice from here, we are converting Daisy (our rescue kitty) to wet and she's taking well to it. I need to get more cans and while i know now to took for grain-free, am not all that sure of all the details. A web page was posted and I read it, but it's still not clear. I just know Daisy likes fancy feast and have not yet tried others. The size of the meal of the fancy feast is just right. |
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On Mar 31, 11:35*am, "cshenk" wrote:
"Rene S." wrote My personal opinion is that prescription cat food of any kind is primarily garbage. If you look at the ingredient list, there is some scary stuff on there. Prescription or not, it's just not a healthy choice. I prefer a high-quality, grain free wet diet. As MaryL mentioned, Wellness is excellent (make sure to get their grain free versions), as is Nature's Variety (canned or raw) and Innova. Is 'Fancy Feast' reasonable? *For a cat that is not blocked and never has been? At one time, there was a debate about the quality of Fancy Feast on this group (which I won't get into). I'm not a fan of it myself, but many people swear by it. I know they now make FF grain free flavors, but it's not just the grains that concern me. It's the other ingredients in the can (by products and fillers). Wellness does make FF-sized cans if can size is a concern, but cost wise it's not as great of a deal. Actually, Wellness is *cheaper* on a per ounce basis compared to FF, at least in my area. You get 3 oz for around .78, and Wellness is .99 for 5.5 oz, making FF .26/oz vs. Wellness .18/oz. Something to think about. |
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"Rene S." wrote in message ... On Mar 31, 11:35 am, "cshenk" wrote: "Rene S." wrote My personal opinion is that prescription cat food of any kind is primarily garbage. If you look at the ingredient list, there is some scary stuff on there. Prescription or not, it's just not a healthy choice. I prefer a high-quality, grain free wet diet. As MaryL mentioned, Wellness is excellent (make sure to get their grain free versions), as is Nature's Variety (canned or raw) and Innova. Is 'Fancy Feast' reasonable? For a cat that is not blocked and never has been? At one time, there was a debate about the quality of Fancy Feast on this group (which I won't get into). I'm not a fan of it myself, but many people swear by it. I know they now make FF grain free flavors, but it's not just the grains that concern me. It's the other ingredients in the can (by products and fillers). Wellness does make FF-sized cans if can size is a concern, but cost wise it's not as great of a deal. Actually, Wellness is *cheaper* on a per ounce basis compared to FF, at least in my area. You get 3 oz for around .78, and Wellness is .99 for 5.5 oz, making FF .26/oz vs. Wellness .18/oz. Something to think about. To add to what Rene wrote: I have also found that Wellness is not as costly as it appears on first glance even if you buy the smaller size. My cats do not need as much quantity of Wellness as they did when I fed "cheaper" food in the past, but their weight has remained completely stable. Both cats are healthy, happy, energetic. Both have beautiful, glossy coats. Holly will be 13 years old in June, and she looks like a youngster. MaryL |
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"MaryL" -OUT-THE-LITTER wrote in message . .. "Rene S." wrote in message ... On Mar 31, 11:35 am, "cshenk" wrote: "Rene S." wrote My personal opinion is that prescription cat food of any kind is primarily garbage. If you look at the ingredient list, there is some scary stuff on there. Prescription or not, it's just not a healthy choice. I prefer a high-quality, grain free wet diet. As MaryL mentioned, Wellness is excellent (make sure to get their grain free versions), as is Nature's Variety (canned or raw) and Innova. Is 'Fancy Feast' reasonable? For a cat that is not blocked and never has been? At one time, there was a debate about the quality of Fancy Feast on this group (which I won't get into). I'm not a fan of it myself, but many people swear by it. I know they now make FF grain free flavors, but it's not just the grains that concern me. It's the other ingredients in the can (by products and fillers). Wellness does make FF-sized cans if can size is a concern, but cost wise it's not as great of a deal. Actually, Wellness is *cheaper* on a per ounce basis compared to FF, at least in my area. You get 3 oz for around .78, and Wellness is .99 for 5.5 oz, making FF .26/oz vs. Wellness .18/oz. Something to think about. To add to what Rene wrote: I have also found that Wellness is not as costly as it appears on first glance even if you buy the smaller size. My cats do not need as much quantity of Wellness as they did when I fed "cheaper" food in the past, but their weight has remained completely stable. Both cats are healthy, happy, energetic. Both have beautiful, glossy coats. Holly will be 13 years old in June, and she looks like a youngster. MaryL How much do you give them at a meal? W |
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"Wendy" wrote
How much do you give them at a meal? Dunno about her but we are feeding about 4 TB roughly a meal, 2 a day. I'm noticing now that we are wet feeding, her water intake has gone down which has me slightly worried as there isnt as much difference in the wet food as the water intake makes up. |
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Wow! I want to shop where you shop. I can get a 5.5 oz can of Wellness for
$1.09; the 3 oz can is .89. But the petstore I buy it at will give me a little bit of a discount for buying a whole case at once...which I always do. But it still doesn't equal out to .99 per can. Another petstore (chain) sells the 3 oz can for .99. I never buy it there. S. -- **Visit me and my cats at http://www.island-cats.com/ ** --- "Rene S." wrote in message ... On Mar 31, 11:35 am, "cshenk" wrote: "Rene S." wrote My personal opinion is that prescription cat food of any kind is primarily garbage. If you look at the ingredient list, there is some scary stuff on there. Prescription or not, it's just not a healthy choice. I prefer a high-quality, grain free wet diet. As MaryL mentioned, Wellness is excellent (make sure to get their grain free versions), as is Nature's Variety (canned or raw) and Innova. Is 'Fancy Feast' reasonable? For a cat that is not blocked and never has been? At one time, there was a debate about the quality of Fancy Feast on this group (which I won't get into). I'm not a fan of it myself, but many people swear by it. I know they now make FF grain free flavors, but it's not just the grains that concern me. It's the other ingredients in the can (by products and fillers). Wellness does make FF-sized cans if can size is a concern, but cost wise it's not as great of a deal. Actually, Wellness is *cheaper* on a per ounce basis compared to FF, at least in my area. You get 3 oz for around .78, and Wellness is .99 for 5.5 oz, making FF .26/oz vs. Wellness .18/oz. Something to think about. |
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"Wendy" wrote in message . .. "MaryL" -OUT-THE-LITTER wrote in message . .. "Rene S." wrote in message ... On Mar 31, 11:35 am, "cshenk" wrote: "Rene S." wrote My personal opinion is that prescription cat food of any kind is primarily garbage. If you look at the ingredient list, there is some scary stuff on there. Prescription or not, it's just not a healthy choice. I prefer a high-quality, grain free wet diet. As MaryL mentioned, Wellness is excellent (make sure to get their grain free versions), as is Nature's Variety (canned or raw) and Innova. Is 'Fancy Feast' reasonable? For a cat that is not blocked and never has been? At one time, there was a debate about the quality of Fancy Feast on this group (which I won't get into). I'm not a fan of it myself, but many people swear by it. I know they now make FF grain free flavors, but it's not just the grains that concern me. It's the other ingredients in the can (by products and fillers). Wellness does make FF-sized cans if can size is a concern, but cost wise it's not as great of a deal. Actually, Wellness is *cheaper* on a per ounce basis compared to FF, at least in my area. You get 3 oz for around .78, and Wellness is .99 for 5.5 oz, making FF .26/oz vs. Wellness .18/oz. Something to think about. To add to what Rene wrote: I have also found that Wellness is not as costly as it appears on first glance even if you buy the smaller size. My cats do not need as much quantity of Wellness as they did when I fed "cheaper" food in the past, but their weight has remained completely stable. Both cats are healthy, happy, energetic. Both have beautiful, glossy coats. Holly will be 13 years old in June, and she looks like a youngster. MaryL How much do you give them at a meal? W I use the 5.5 oz cans. Each cat gets 1/3 of a can twice a day (fed on 12-hr. intervals, or as close to that as possible). This means that I rotate and take 2/3 of a can (1/3 for each cat), leaving two cans in the refrigerator that are each 1/3 full. Those two cans then provide the next meal. It would depend on the weight of the cats, of course, but my two have remained completely stable in weight ever since I started doing this more than four years ago. Duffy weighs a little more than 8 pounds, and Holly weighs 9 pounds. You can see lots of pictures of them in the links under my sig. I adopted Duffy at the end of January 2003. He was extremely thin at that time because he had been in a shelter for several months. I started him on Innova because he needed to gain weight. Once he reached the right weight, I switched to Wellness although I sometimes add some Innova Evo or similar products. They get Wellness about 90% of the time, though (a variety of Wellness selections, always being careful to use the grain-free varieties). MaryL Photos of Duffy and Holly: 'o' Duffy: http://tinyurl.com/cslwf Holly: http://tinyurl.com/9t68o Duffy and Holly together: http://tinyurl.com/8b47e |
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