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Best way to convince kitty to eat wet food?
NanCe via CatKB.com wrote:
rough road, but I switched him over to all canned. I'd suggest giving her a high-quality canned diet and skip the renal food. (such as Wellness or Nature's Variety). It's irresponsible to say "skip the renal food" without even knowing anything about this cat's condition! By the way, my sister's 23 year old renal cat is probably still alive due to being fed renal food for the past 10 years. NanCe Why would you feed a cat with kidney failure dry food when it already needs extra fluids? My point was that it would be better for this cat to eat a high-quality canned food than a dry food that greatly reduces its fluid intake? Rene |
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Best way to convince kitty to eat wet food?
Why would you feed a cat with kidney failure dry food when it already
needs extra fluids? My point was that it would be better for this cat to eat a high-quality canned food than a dry food that greatly reduces its fluid intake? It would *not* be better for this cat to eat a regular canned food over a dry renal food. As long as a cat drinks water, a dry food is fine. When it eats canned food, it drinks less water as canned is 70+% moisture. When it eats dry, it drinks more water as dry is only 10% moisture. Therefore, as long as it's water intake is good, dry is fine. Again as an example, my sister's renal cat has been eating dry renal food for 10 years and she only started getting canned renal food a couple of years ago, not to increase her water intake as she is a good drinker, but because she likes canned. By the way not sure why you suggested Wellness or Nature's Variety instead of a canned renal food. They are not made for renal disease. NanCe -- Message posted via CatKB.com http://www.catkb.com/Uwe/Forums.aspx...ealth/200602/1 |
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Best way to convince kitty to eat wet food?
She's an 8 year old DSH that, I believe, is highly inbred. I got her from
my hay guy, and she has several issues: missing teeth, poor vision, oddly shapped legs and head, and her kidneys are about half normal size. Ah, poor little girl; just makes her sound more lovable though. Her creatinine is 3.1, down from 3.7, which is down from 3.9. Her phosphorus levels are low; her calcium levels are slightly elevated. The creatinine labs are at roughly two week intervals. Initial labs were drawn prior to a tooth extraction (one dead tooth in a mouthful of nice healthy ones.) Urine was pulled at the time of the tooth extraction and she was found to have a raging kidney infection, and we put her on 2 weeks of Clavimox. Urine collected after the antibiotics showed nothing abnormal. That's good it's cleared up. I plan on pulling another set of labs in about a month, to see what direction we're heading. She's acting more like a normal kitty since we resolved the kidney infection and added the fluids. I'm not sure how the food is affecting her, but figure it must be helping her kidneys. Good idea. Who knows, maybe the numbers will have come down now that the kidney infection has been resolved. The fluids and food can be helping too. It'll be interesting to see her numbers next month, bet you can't wait! NanCe -- Message posted via CatKB.com http://www.catkb.com/Uwe/Forums.aspx...ealth/200602/1 |
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Best way to convince kitty to eat wet food?
Quoted from
http://www.felinecrf.org/nutritional...ry_v_wet_food: As desert animals, healthy cats do not naturally drink a lot, instead they obtain moisture from their prey (a mouse, for example, is around 65-70% water); and whilst cats who eat dry food do tend to drink more than cats fed on wet food, they simply cannot take in as much moisture overall as a cat fed on tinned food. This was known back in 1986, when the US Board of Agriculture stated in an article entitled Nutrient Requirements of Cats. More recently, an article entitled The carnivore connection to nutrition in cats (no abstract provided, but the document may be found here, or here in pdf format) (2002) Zoran D Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association 221 pp1559-67 states: * "cats eating commercial dry foods will consume approximately half the amount of water (in their diet and through drinking), compared with cats eating canned foods... In older cats that tend to produce urine with a lower concentration, an increase in water consumption becomes even more important to avoid dehydration and development of prerenal azotaemia". |
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Best way to convince kitty to eat wet food?
"Rene S." wrote in message ups.com... Quoted from http://www.felinecrf.org/nutritional...ry_v_wet_food: As desert animals, healthy cats do not naturally drink a lot, instead they obtain moisture from their prey (a mouse, for example, is around 65-70% water); and whilst cats who eat dry food do tend to drink more than cats fed on wet food, they simply cannot take in as much moisture overall as a cat fed on tinned food. This was known back in 1986, when the US Board of Agriculture stated in an article entitled Nutrient Requirements of Cats. More recently, an article entitled The carnivore connection to nutrition in cats (no abstract provided, but the document may be found here, or here in pdf format) (2002) Zoran D Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association 221 pp1559-67 states: "cats eating commercial dry foods will consume approximately half the amount of water (in their diet and through drinking), compared with cats eating canned foods... In older cats that tend to produce urine with a lower concentration, an increase in water consumption becomes even more important to avoid dehydration and development of prerenal azotaemia". yep. Wet food is healthier all the way around. I can see the results of cutting out dry food. |
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Best way to convince kitty to eat wet food?
"cats eating commercial dry foods will consume approximately half the
amount of water (in their diet and through drinking), compared with cats eating canned foods... In older cats that tend to produce urine with a lower concentration, an increase in water consumption becomes even more important to avoid dehydration and development of prerenal azotaemia". Well, eating dry renal food certainly never hurt my sister's cat; 23 is a ripe old age and she's still doing fine. If you believe his cat should eat canned, that's fine, but you didn't suggest a canned renal food to him - you suggested Wellness or Nature's Recipe. Those were not made for renal disease and why anyone would suggest them to someone with a cat in possible renal failure is beyond me. NanCe -- Message posted via CatKB.com http://www.catkb.com/Uwe/Forums.aspx...ealth/200602/1 |
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Best way to convince kitty to eat wet food?
Rene S. wrote:
"cats eating commercial dry foods will consume approximately half the amount of water (in their diet and through drinking), compared with cats eating canned foods... In older cats that tend to produce urine with a lower concentration, an increase in water consumption becomes even more important to avoid dehydration and development of prerenal azotaemia". ....which is why Ginger is getting sub-q fluids She also drinks well. Corey |
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