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Thanks for the links!!

Ok, thanks again for everyone’s time and help!!

Looking at bowls on Amazon, how do you rate these? Looking at, first food bowls, how do you rate these? He’s always eaten off either white or steel bowls so I don’t want to change the color. After that, I attached 2 possible water bowls. Bluish o es and colorful ones. Let me know what you...

A few questions whenever you have a moment: - What kind of bowls do you use for transitioning or in general? - Also, what do you use for water bowls and do you keep water near the food or away? - What kind of liquid treat do you give your cats? I tried those Churra (spelling?) tubes and the...

I copied and pasted your method into my notes. I’ll start it tomorrow with one of the RX food flavors, thank you sharing that! A question, in the section I pasted below, did you mean you offered a donut shaped amount of RX food, with a small amount of RX food in the center? So 2 amounts of RX...

He eats 1 or 2 bites of FF mixed with any of the urinary foods, then walks away. I know he’s hungry because he follows me around, trying to get me to pick him up and change his food.

Thanks for that information. I'm using all of the advice here to get Ziggy into the habit of eating RX food. He mostly refuses it, though. Since he won't drink water, he's had a fountain in the past, I have to give him some wet food. He ate a few bites of OTC Purina chicken, but that's all. So...

I weighed him again last night, on my shipping scale and he’s lost another 0.2 lb in 2 days.Im panicked about it, so reverted to Fancy Feast. He’d had a total of 96 calories yesterday which is way below what he should be eating. Perhaps I need to transition him slower. I already stopped all the...

I tried a can of the Purina OTC urinary chicken flavor, he ate half the can. So he's had 69 calories so far today. Its still much below what he should eat in a day but I’m glad he ate that. Thank you for the recommendation!

I’ll give the Purina OTC flavors a try. He does like the crushed up dry food on top but of course, only eats the top. I went through all the Hills OTC flavors and the Royal Canin OTC but it was a no to those. Maybe I’m not waiting long enough before I change out his food for another flavor? I’ll...

He mainly eats wet food, and about 3/4 tablespoons of Royal Canin urinary dry food. He just avoids eating the RX wet food and is consuming way fewer calories than when he was in Fancy Feast. I’m worried about him getting Hepatic Lipidosis from rapid weight loss. He lost 0.4lb over the course of...

Thanks so much for all the info. He just refuses to eat any of the urinary RX diets now. I’ve tried Hills, Purina and Royal Canin. He used to eat the RC but won’t anymore. He also went from 15.8lb to 15.4lb in 10 days. I'm concerned about rapid weight loss and liver disease. He’s acting...

Hi - Thanks so much for your response! He's never been diagnosed with Struvite crystals before now. In 2020 we had a scare after he ate a piece of lily leaf (a friend sent flowers containing Lillies after my 17 year old Tortie died, I was unaware of the risk) I took him to the ER immediately...

Hello all! My cat, Ziggy was recently diagnosed with a moderate amount of Struvite crystals, he’s 10yrs old and 2.5/3 lbs overweight. I working on his weight loss by monitoring calories intake, play time. The vet said he should have 200/250 calories a day. We’re 1 week into transitioning off...

Thanks again. This is such useful info. I will print out our correspondence and make sure Im going by the rules:) I will report the progress we make. You have been a lifesaver!