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So, about 18 months ago, I noticed that one of my cats would be sick after eating his dry food, I didn't know why, but, I normally mix the old bag, with the new, and none of my other cats were being sick, okay, we get my cat checked out, turns out his teeth need removing, so we put all the times he is sick down to that, anyway, I carry on as normal, but this time, I got a bag of dry cat food, and again mixed it up with the older stuff, and strangely my other cats started to be sick, so, about to gather all the data for the vets so they know what to look out for, as all the cats are sick within 1 hour of eating the dry food, but mostly this would happen within a minute or 2. This is a really close relation to the dry food.
So, this time, I go to the store, (normally delivered), and brought a small bag, gave them the food from a different packaging (they are going plastic free or trying too), I did not mix this bag up with the other food, and my cats eat this food no problems. Now, I am getting into investigation mode... the both cat food are the same shape, same flavour, same ingredients (supposably), but the colour of the biscuits are different, one is lighter, so I show my mum, sisters to see if they can see anything, they couldn't see it. So maybe I am trying to find differences in something that is not different.
This time, I am now sure that its not a health issue, our vets are ready to run test, but they don't think its the cats health too, and agree something must be changed with the cat food, maybe the packaging or something I don't know, but what I do know is, I have switched to a different brand of cat food, one that they used to eat some 10+ years ago. I have been using this with the cats for about 10 weeks, and only one of my cats has been sick, he was sick twice, but that was mostly due to him having a huge drink of water, eat a bit of dry food too quickly.
So, I now have food that is making my cats sick, but have some dry food from before change over packaging, changed packaging and back to normal packaging. I contacted the people who make the dry food, and said they have not changed anything in years now, just the packaging, so they said they will test the 3 different samples of cat food, and see if there is any difference. The results came back as all 3 samples were the same product/ingredients.
As you may tell, my cats have seen eating dry food as a way to be sick, so, how is the best way to reintroduce the food that won't make them sick, they eat it, but no where near what they should for their sizes, age etc...?
So, about 18 months ago, I noticed that one of my cats would be sick after eating his dry food, I didn't know why, but, I normally mix the old bag, with the new, and none of my other cats were being sick, okay, we get my cat checked out, turns out his teeth need removing, so we put all the times he is sick down to that, anyway, I carry on as normal, but this time, I got a bag of dry cat food, and again mixed it up with the older stuff, and strangely my other cats started to be sick, so, about to gather all the data for the vets so they know what to look out for, as all the cats are sick within 1 hour of eating the dry food, but mostly this would happen within a minute or 2. This is a really close relation to the dry food.
So, this time, I go to the store, (normally delivered), and brought a small bag, gave them the food from a different packaging (they are going plastic free or trying too), I did not mix this bag up with the other food, and my cats eat this food no problems. Now, I am getting into investigation mode... the both cat food are the same shape, same flavour, same ingredients (supposably), but the colour of the biscuits are different, one is lighter, so I show my mum, sisters to see if they can see anything, they couldn't see it. So maybe I am trying to find differences in something that is not different.
This time, I am now sure that its not a health issue, our vets are ready to run test, but they don't think its the cats health too, and agree something must be changed with the cat food, maybe the packaging or something I don't know, but what I do know is, I have switched to a different brand of cat food, one that they used to eat some 10+ years ago. I have been using this with the cats for about 10 weeks, and only one of my cats has been sick, he was sick twice, but that was mostly due to him having a huge drink of water, eat a bit of dry food too quickly.
So, I now have food that is making my cats sick, but have some dry food from before change over packaging, changed packaging and back to normal packaging. I contacted the people who make the dry food, and said they have not changed anything in years now, just the packaging, so they said they will test the 3 different samples of cat food, and see if there is any difference. The results came back as all 3 samples were the same product/ingredients.
As you may tell, my cats have seen eating dry food as a way to be sick, so, how is the best way to reintroduce the food that won't make them sick, they eat it, but no where near what they should for their sizes, age etc...?