I feel like this is going to be a massive essay but here we go.
I have two cats, both a year old, who have been having problems with food for quite some time.
We originally started them both on Wellness wet, one cat (Nozawa) was fine until recently. Our other cat Mio, went through a whole slew of brands (both prescription and otherwise) before we settled on Wild Calling, rotating the protein every day. She would before this both 1) Not eat her food and 2) Throw up. But she seems fine now and has no problems. We even had her tested for pancreatitis but it came back negative. We rotate beef, chicken/salmon/lamb, buffalo, duck and rabbit. It has limited ingredients.
Our other cat, Nozawa, was fine up until these last couple of months. He began throwing up (hair balls only), every week. We had an ultrasound and found out he had pancreatitis. The vet wanted to put him on a low-fat diet, but the Wild Calling food we had (prior to this he was still eating Wellness), was the same fat % as the prescription food so we switched him to the same stuff our other cat was on (WIld Calling), and fed him beef only (our vet's advice...). That was maybe 4 weeks ago.
He stopped throwing up until last week, where he threw up twice and also started itching his ears / shaking his head. The vet thinks its a food allergy, and no matter what novel protein we feed him he will eventually develop an allergy unless we switch him to hydrolyzed protein.
The only hydrolyzed protein our vet sells is dry (Royal Canin), and I really don't want to put him on that because it seems like it has lots of filler ingredients (as well as being dry food). She insists that it doesn't and that everything that is in the food is there for a reason. We thought maybe if we switched the protein source daily (like we do for our other cat), he would be better, but on the chicken/lamb/salmon formula he started developing a rash around his ears. But I am aware chicken/fish is an allergen. So I am not sure if maybe he would do better if we rotated other protein sources (venison, duck, rabbit, buffalo).
I see Hill's makes a hydrolyzed protein wet food, but I am not sure if this is even any better than the dry Royal Canin makes.
I am not sure what to do, do we go against our vet and try more novel protein sources, or do we try the Royal Canin dry food? I feel like we can't keep going back to our vet if we don't take her advice.
I have two cats, both a year old, who have been having problems with food for quite some time.
We originally started them both on Wellness wet, one cat (Nozawa) was fine until recently. Our other cat Mio, went through a whole slew of brands (both prescription and otherwise) before we settled on Wild Calling, rotating the protein every day. She would before this both 1) Not eat her food and 2) Throw up. But she seems fine now and has no problems. We even had her tested for pancreatitis but it came back negative. We rotate beef, chicken/salmon/lamb, buffalo, duck and rabbit. It has limited ingredients.
Our other cat, Nozawa, was fine up until these last couple of months. He began throwing up (hair balls only), every week. We had an ultrasound and found out he had pancreatitis. The vet wanted to put him on a low-fat diet, but the Wild Calling food we had (prior to this he was still eating Wellness), was the same fat % as the prescription food so we switched him to the same stuff our other cat was on (WIld Calling), and fed him beef only (our vet's advice...). That was maybe 4 weeks ago.
He stopped throwing up until last week, where he threw up twice and also started itching his ears / shaking his head. The vet thinks its a food allergy, and no matter what novel protein we feed him he will eventually develop an allergy unless we switch him to hydrolyzed protein.
The only hydrolyzed protein our vet sells is dry (Royal Canin), and I really don't want to put him on that because it seems like it has lots of filler ingredients (as well as being dry food). She insists that it doesn't and that everything that is in the food is there for a reason. We thought maybe if we switched the protein source daily (like we do for our other cat), he would be better, but on the chicken/lamb/salmon formula he started developing a rash around his ears. But I am aware chicken/fish is an allergen. So I am not sure if maybe he would do better if we rotated other protein sources (venison, duck, rabbit, buffalo).
I see Hill's makes a hydrolyzed protein wet food, but I am not sure if this is even any better than the dry Royal Canin makes.
I am not sure what to do, do we go against our vet and try more novel protein sources, or do we try the Royal Canin dry food? I feel like we can't keep going back to our vet if we don't take her advice.
