Hi there
One of our cats, Dynah was recently diagnosed with bladder stones. She is on Royal Cannin S/O dry, because she refused to eat the wet from either Royal Cannin or Hills...down right refused. She likes the dry and is eating it with occasional grain free wet from Performatrin. I think it's working. She's more energetic, seems to be visiting the box less, and seems generally happier. We'll find out in 2 weeks if this stuff worked or if we need surgery.
The other two cats continue to eat Taste of the Wild as much as possible...and steal some of the S/O occasionally (we have one who is obesessed with it and will ignore her own food to try to get to the S/O, but we limit her accessibility). They also get the Performatrin wet daily.
The problem is that all 3 cats have a sensitivity to corn, which is of course part of the S/O. Between Dynah being forced to eat the perscription, and the other cats stealing it, I have a whole pride walking around shaking their heads and scratching their ears. I did some looking online and it seems to be the age old argument between those who believe in vet food and those who support raw/wet only. I wish the vet food had better ingredients, but I'm worried that if we change (after the crystals are gone) they'll come back. I don't ever want to clean up blood in my cats urine again. She's very picky with wet and would never eat raw.
Just wondering if there were any thoughts on how to deal with this sensitivity down the road. Once everything gets cleared up I plan on talking with the vet about the food situation, but I wanted to see what you guys said first because I know the vets are fed a bunch of hype from the food companies.
One of our cats, Dynah was recently diagnosed with bladder stones. She is on Royal Cannin S/O dry, because she refused to eat the wet from either Royal Cannin or Hills...down right refused. She likes the dry and is eating it with occasional grain free wet from Performatrin. I think it's working. She's more energetic, seems to be visiting the box less, and seems generally happier. We'll find out in 2 weeks if this stuff worked or if we need surgery.
The other two cats continue to eat Taste of the Wild as much as possible...and steal some of the S/O occasionally (we have one who is obesessed with it and will ignore her own food to try to get to the S/O, but we limit her accessibility). They also get the Performatrin wet daily.
The problem is that all 3 cats have a sensitivity to corn, which is of course part of the S/O. Between Dynah being forced to eat the perscription, and the other cats stealing it, I have a whole pride walking around shaking their heads and scratching their ears. I did some looking online and it seems to be the age old argument between those who believe in vet food and those who support raw/wet only. I wish the vet food had better ingredients, but I'm worried that if we change (after the crystals are gone) they'll come back. I don't ever want to clean up blood in my cats urine again. She's very picky with wet and would never eat raw.
Just wondering if there were any thoughts on how to deal with this sensitivity down the road. Once everything gets cleared up I plan on talking with the vet about the food situation, but I wanted to see what you guys said first because I know the vets are fed a bunch of hype from the food companies.