He kept peeing everywhere in inappropriate places so we took him in, and it turns out he's had a UTI for a month or so, and now it has become severe.
We feed holistic food, mainly Taste Of The Wild and Chicken Soup For The Soul, and just recently started feeding Merrick wet food.
I've been trying to keep them all on a diet of 50% wet, 50% dry, but our littlest guy of 2 years just got this really bad UTI.
Also, a few months ago we bought some cheap cheap bags of Nutro from Petco for $2, they were clearance. We fed that for awhile and started seeing a couple problems (vomiting, etc). We stopped feeding it exclusively and we saw the vomiting stop, but it is still mixed in with the rest of the dry. I'm thinking this could be our problem because it started happening after we were feeding it.
Now our vet put him on a special formulated Science Diet (I hate that brand!) and she says we have to have him on special food the rest of his life.
My question is, for you experienced cat owners and/or veterinarians out there :
do we have to keep him on the corn-infested Science Diet medicated food the rest of his life or can we start feeding a 100% wet diet to get those crystals broke down and more moisture into his system?
I'd rather do the wet food because I'm not especially excited about paying $15 for 4 lbs of corn, wheat, and soy.
Thanks!
We feed holistic food, mainly Taste Of The Wild and Chicken Soup For The Soul, and just recently started feeding Merrick wet food.
I've been trying to keep them all on a diet of 50% wet, 50% dry, but our littlest guy of 2 years just got this really bad UTI.
Also, a few months ago we bought some cheap cheap bags of Nutro from Petco for $2, they were clearance. We fed that for awhile and started seeing a couple problems (vomiting, etc). We stopped feeding it exclusively and we saw the vomiting stop, but it is still mixed in with the rest of the dry. I'm thinking this could be our problem because it started happening after we were feeding it.
Now our vet put him on a special formulated Science Diet (I hate that brand!) and she says we have to have him on special food the rest of his life.
My question is, for you experienced cat owners and/or veterinarians out there :
do we have to keep him on the corn-infested Science Diet medicated food the rest of his life or can we start feeding a 100% wet diet to get those crystals broke down and more moisture into his system?
I'd rather do the wet food because I'm not especially excited about paying $15 for 4 lbs of corn, wheat, and soy.
Thanks!