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    Problems with Purina Pro Plan??

    He does not have any diagnosed allergy, but the nutritionist explained to me that small cell lymphoma is often a consequence of IBD and that there is no consensus on diet for small cell lymphoma...the safest approach is to treat like IBD.
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    Problems with Purina Pro Plan??

    I agree with you and this is a good point. Moreover, I was at the vet with George the cat a few days ago. I asked multiple doctors at the hospital, including their board-certified nutritionist, if they were seeing a higher-than-normal volume of cats with weird issues and the answer was NO. They...
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    Problems with Purina Pro Plan??

    I have been very conflicted on this matter. In general, I am very passionate about feline nutrition, and I have always considered the top brands (Purina, Hill's and Royal Canin) as great pet food manufacturers, with plenty of options all well backed by science. Purina and others are also the...
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    How long dry food lasts before getting a new bag?

    Oh wow I did not know about storage mites. Do they appear in the food even if the cabinet storage is super clean and I close the bag every single time after getting the food for the daily amount?
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    How long dry food lasts before getting a new bag?

    I have tried using sealed bags and air vacuum them but it did not work, I had the same issue of George slowing the eating after roughly a couple of weeks. I never tried freezing it because I read somewhere that this can create the perfect environment for mold growth. Doing some research online...
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    How long dry food lasts before getting a new bag?

    George the Cat loves his Purina Pro Plan 7+ dry food (which he eats together with wet food every day). I noticed that after usually 12 to 14 days since I open one bag of dry food, he starts eating less. As soon as I open a new bag food, he goes back to eating the dry food with gusto. While I am...
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    Can dry cat food be odorless?

    Just an update. The odorless bag had an expiration date of 9/2023. A new bag I just received has an expiration date of 12/2023. The new bag has a strong odor that is common with this food and George started eating it again. I guess the previous bag was just too old.
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    Young Again Cat Food: Good or Bad?

    This has been unfortunately my same experience. I agree that the owner of the company is amazing, he replied to my many emails always with a lot of interesting info. George the Cat loved this food but one day he woke up with terrible diarrhea and vomiting for the entire day. I had to bring him...
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    Can dry cat food be odorless?

    In any case I think I might have found the culprit. Speaking with a representative of the food company, they told me that his dry food has a 18 months shelf life. The bag I received has an expiration date of September 2023. This means that the food was manufactured more than a year ago and sat...
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    Can dry cat food be odorless?

    This is a good point but difficult to execute. Right now the FF he eats is too high on phosphorous. I can’t feed him only that food. Also, he is a grazer and eats a little bit very often. With wet food it would mean switching old wet food with new wet food many times a day. This means that I...
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    Can dry cat food be odorless?

    My cat George is under a prescription diet for early-stage CKD. He has been eating Purina NF Early Care regularly. Three weeks ago he stopped eating it, and I was wondering what was going on. I tried to open a new bag of the same food, and he jumped right over it and resumed eating it every day...
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    My beautiful Holly

    And suddenly, after more than 5 months that you left us, here is the memory of you coming back so strong that I need to cry again, I miss you so much dear Holly. I just want you to know that your little brother George is doing fine, he is back at eating normally and he even loves his kidney dry...
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    Huge PTSD

    In October 2021 my cat George started feeling bad. After several hospitalizations, he finally had surgery last January. Right after he started getting better, his cat sister Holly was diagnosed with squamous cell carcinoma. I spent months taking care of her through surgery and post surgery and...
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    Weird behavior by male cat? Is he happy or not?

    Yes to all. And this is a behavior that he has been having for a looong time.
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    4 out of 12 cats have UTIs...any ideas why?

    According to some websites, water fountains can contain tons of bacteria unless they are cleaned almost daily and unless they are metal and not plastic. That might be the cause.
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