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Hi everyone,
My little kitty has chronic constipation issues, but not megacolon. She's only 3 years old but fractured her pelvis when she was a kitten and the vets think that this small fracture might be the cause of it. I've heard from one she can't pass the normal diameter of poop and that's why she gets blocked up. One told me that the fracture damaged a nerve that helps move her poop. Anyways, she can't pass poop normally.
Her vet put her on the Royal Canin Gastrointestinal Fiber Response prescription diet and I don't agree with a lot of the ingredients on that list. She was eating Orijen beforehand with wet food once at night. However, the prescription diet is doing what it needs to do: helping her poop. She also take lactulose twice a day.
My issue is, when I try to switch her off the diet onto something new, she gets constipated and I have to take her in to get unblocked. However, I don't want to keep feeding her Royal Canin. I'm wondering if it's worth her suffering through incidents to find "the" perfect food for her that doesn't have corn and rice and by-products.
Does anyone have success with any other foods for kitties with constipation issues? And is it worth getting her off of this food only for her to suffer more, or should I just give in and keep her on it?
Thanks for everyone who took the time to read.
My little kitty has chronic constipation issues, but not megacolon. She's only 3 years old but fractured her pelvis when she was a kitten and the vets think that this small fracture might be the cause of it. I've heard from one she can't pass the normal diameter of poop and that's why she gets blocked up. One told me that the fracture damaged a nerve that helps move her poop. Anyways, she can't pass poop normally.
Her vet put her on the Royal Canin Gastrointestinal Fiber Response prescription diet and I don't agree with a lot of the ingredients on that list. She was eating Orijen beforehand with wet food once at night. However, the prescription diet is doing what it needs to do: helping her poop. She also take lactulose twice a day.
My issue is, when I try to switch her off the diet onto something new, she gets constipated and I have to take her in to get unblocked. However, I don't want to keep feeding her Royal Canin. I'm wondering if it's worth her suffering through incidents to find "the" perfect food for her that doesn't have corn and rice and by-products.
Does anyone have success with any other foods for kitties with constipation issues? And is it worth getting her off of this food only for her to suffer more, or should I just give in and keep her on it?
Thanks for everyone who took the time to read.