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My Joon has been a scratcher for a long time, to the point where she'll just not stop scratching a spot until we say "JOON. Stop scratching please!!" and she had a bunch of scabs on her body. We'd tried a few different antihistamines but they didn't work.
Recent vet said food allergies. Vet would not endorse anything but Hill's z/d. I showed her other brands and the ingredients, like Natural Balance LID and Wysong Anergen. She said that they don't have quality control put into place to prove that there will never be proteins other than what is on the bag, so Joon could get sick again at any time. I can't say I like the idea of the hydrolyzed proteins in Hill's z/d, it doesn't seem like "real food". The dry (what they're used to) is so hard that Joon won't eat it and Abii doesn't love it (Joon hoovers, Abii crunches). I moisten the dry food for Joon just to get her to eat but if it's "stale" and she doesn't eat all that I gave her right away, she won't touch it. I finally opened up the single can of it and she seemed to wolf that down, but the consistency is just WEIRD, it's like there's gelatin in it or something. I couldn't even get it off the spoon, lol.
Not to mention, with two cats with healthy appetites, z/d is gonna be expensive (and yes, what I feed one, I feed the other, that's just how we are doing it here).
Does anyone have good luck with brands OTHER than Hill's z/d? Is my vet just being overly cautious or reasonable? At this point I'd even consider Royal Canin if it's just as good, quality wise, as Hill's despite the price, if the texture/consistency/taste was more palatable to my girls.
Recent vet said food allergies. Vet would not endorse anything but Hill's z/d. I showed her other brands and the ingredients, like Natural Balance LID and Wysong Anergen. She said that they don't have quality control put into place to prove that there will never be proteins other than what is on the bag, so Joon could get sick again at any time. I can't say I like the idea of the hydrolyzed proteins in Hill's z/d, it doesn't seem like "real food". The dry (what they're used to) is so hard that Joon won't eat it and Abii doesn't love it (Joon hoovers, Abii crunches). I moisten the dry food for Joon just to get her to eat but if it's "stale" and she doesn't eat all that I gave her right away, she won't touch it. I finally opened up the single can of it and she seemed to wolf that down, but the consistency is just WEIRD, it's like there's gelatin in it or something. I couldn't even get it off the spoon, lol.
Not to mention, with two cats with healthy appetites, z/d is gonna be expensive (and yes, what I feed one, I feed the other, that's just how we are doing it here).
Does anyone have good luck with brands OTHER than Hill's z/d? Is my vet just being overly cautious or reasonable? At this point I'd even consider Royal Canin if it's just as good, quality wise, as Hill's despite the price, if the texture/consistency/taste was more palatable to my girls.