I just adopted a male cat about two months ago and have suspected FLUTD since day one because of excessive drinking. Previous owners said he just really likes water. I started giving him wet food a week after he settled in and I genuinely thought his excessive drinking was getting better. When he peed in my shower I got the hint that he was in pain.
So I let the vet run a urine sample and apparently we caught things "early" because he didn't have any blood in his urine. Oh and no blockages. The receptionist proceeds to tell me that I can come pick up a prescription diet for cats who have crystals in their urine and that he will probably be on this food his entire life. Lol. Uhhh, ma'am, feeding a dry food prescription diet to cure an illness caused by feeding dry food is counter intuïtive to me. (read: hills chicken, which he had been eating his entire dang life- he's 6) BUT, should I feed the bladder crystals prescription food temporarily so he feels better?
Needless to say Luuk is on a full canned food diet from today on and up until today he got one dry meal a day, 2 wet - he's a big boy but not overweight. He got dry food because my other cat is a dry food addict. She will eat some wet foods but every time she's on 100% wet OR raw for longer than a month she gets way too skinny.
I got one of those SureFeed microchip feeders so that when I give Elfie her dry food in the morning Luuk can't get to it anymore.
ANYWAY. What did you guys do with your cat when they got FLUTD? Should I go for the prescription diet, or will the 100% wet food be better? Do I go in every month and see if it gets better etc or? Yeah. Any advice you can give.
So I let the vet run a urine sample and apparently we caught things "early" because he didn't have any blood in his urine. Oh and no blockages. The receptionist proceeds to tell me that I can come pick up a prescription diet for cats who have crystals in their urine and that he will probably be on this food his entire life. Lol. Uhhh, ma'am, feeding a dry food prescription diet to cure an illness caused by feeding dry food is counter intuïtive to me. (read: hills chicken, which he had been eating his entire dang life- he's 6) BUT, should I feed the bladder crystals prescription food temporarily so he feels better?
Needless to say Luuk is on a full canned food diet from today on and up until today he got one dry meal a day, 2 wet - he's a big boy but not overweight. He got dry food because my other cat is a dry food addict. She will eat some wet foods but every time she's on 100% wet OR raw for longer than a month she gets way too skinny.
I got one of those SureFeed microchip feeders so that when I give Elfie her dry food in the morning Luuk can't get to it anymore.
ANYWAY. What did you guys do with your cat when they got FLUTD? Should I go for the prescription diet, or will the 100% wet food be better? Do I go in every month and see if it gets better etc or? Yeah. Any advice you can give.