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I found two companies who added Yucca to their cat food. Yucca is.listed as a poison on the pet poison hotline What are these cat food companies doing?!!! Better check your ingredients list for your cat food!

Flaxseed is not recommended for people to eat by the National Food Agency in Sweden. I believe flaxseed oil is also banned in France So why are USA food manufacturers putting it in our cat food. It puts cyanide into the cat food. I sent cans of Lotus Just Juicy Rabbit to a lab who forwarded...

Vaccine FVRCP risks - can cause kidney disease, kidney failure: scary research Here are a couple articles on risks for kidney failure/ disease related to FVRCP vaccines Low risks for indoor healthy cats not going to the vet -do they need FVRCP vaccines? If so which ones are safer? Adjuvant...

I spoke to my veterinarian nutritionist Dr. Lisa Weeth DVM DACVN of Metropolitan Animal Specialty Hospital, Los Angeles, California. I will try to relay her advice. She initially advised me to stay away from cat foods that have Dicalcium or Tricalcium phosphates in them. I did some research...

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My nutrition veterinarian Dr. Lisa Weeth DVM DACVN recommended to stay away from cat food that had Tricalcium phosphate or Dicalcium phosphate in it. I did an internet search to find out why and found this article summarizing much of the research done. Calcium phosphate,Tricalcium phosphate...

My new kitty is a young and healthy Seal Point Siamese. I am looking for a protein. based limited ingredient canned cat food that is low in dry matter analysis phosphorus and does not have tricalcium phosphate or dicalcium phosphate in it preferably also not too high in calorie too. Any...

Both my assistant and I are coughing and sneezing a lot. There is a strong vibration from radio-frequency on my home. We had tinfoil on back French doors and took it down. The coughing and sneezing is worse. I have a new cat but she does not shed at all. I am using Tidy Cats lightweight...

I have recently adopted a one or two year old Seal Point Siamese cat. She is healthy other than an ear infection being treated. She was abandoned in Tijuana, Mexico brought in to a San Diego, California rescue. When I adopted her I asked what she ate and they said Costco tuna cat food. I got...

I am transitioning from Instinct LID rabbit to Rayne diagnostic rabbit in order to get my cat with CKD and IBD on a cat food that is lower in phosphorus for her CKD and that is rabbit that she can tolerate well for her IBD. The Instinct LID rabbit is both too drying for my IBD cat and too high...

I am considering feeding my cat a simpler canned cat food because of a need for lower phosphorus for CKD and unique protein for IBD. The rabbit pates I am considering does not have vitamins or minerals for a complete diet. Can you recommend a good quality simple vitamin and mineral supplement...

I have been hunting for a quality cat food. Found Identity. Worth the money: new line rabbit or quail 3 ounce cans. said it is the exact same formula as the dog food 6 ounce cans if you want to get a larger can but In not sure if it has taurine that cats need. Also has a quail with turkey...

My cat was having kidney trouble on venison and a change in food was advised by my veterinarian. I was going to have “Just Food for Dogs” formulate a rabbit pate for my cat but they insisted on using tapioca. Unfamiliar with tapioca I looked it up on line. Tapioca is cassava or yucca and it...

Flaxseed and tapioca (cassava or Yucca) cause cyanide is cat food that is toxic for cats and I’m fed up. I read some articles about flaxseed being banned or warned on using in France and Sweden. One reason mentioned was flaxseed causes cyanide in food. I had three Lotus rabbit pate cans...

I was having a custom diet formulated at Just Food for Dogs. The nutritionist there insisted on using Yuca (Casssva). I found out that this has to be well cooked and Yuca (Cassava) is not appropriate to use regularly or for low protein diets. I am frustrated they won’t use agar to thicken...

Just wanted all cat owners to know that Cisapride was pulled off market for humans. Only one pharmacy in Arizona has the remaining material. A few years ago my internal medicine vet wanted my cat to use Cisapride for her constipation. When I was in Scottsdale visiting my mom at her winter...

Just wanted to warn you all that it is not just Zantac that is a problem but Ranitidine itself as per news tv stories I have seen. Try maybe Pepsid AC regular strength 1/4 pill twice a day is what my cat uses for an anti acid. Ask your vet for something else to use. One tv program interviewed...

My cat is losing weight eating good with decent bloodwork considering her medical conditions but not absorbing food well. She has pancreatic lipidosis (pancreatitis) and a worsening case of inflammatory bowel disease. Also occasional inflammatory liver. She had a rare benign liver tumor...

My 16 year old Siamese Tutu is losing weight. She has chronic pancreatitis, one liver enzyme elevated , stage 2 CKD and chronic IBD. Her blood work otherwise is stable. She is eating pretty good. She gets 60 ml sub q fluids every other day. She looks dehydrated a little time after she gets...

I am very frustrated: my 16 year old cat has had two bouts of red blood dripping from her urinary tract with urgency to go and moaning. I had left over Clavamox antibiotic on hand but am running out. This started with her BUN elevating to 62 so her vet started me giving her subQ fluids. The...