We received 2 kittens last week. At the breeder they were eating raw food with the odd fancy feast put down.
When we got them home, they were both great & eating a mixture of Solid Gold dry & Performa Plus wet. To make a long story short, the male kitten got very sick - anemic to the point the vet wanted to give him a transfusion.
Because we was not eating, out of sheer desperation we fed him an improvised raw meal yesterday - ground turky & chicken liver. It was the first meal he ate all day & he continues to eat it. Today he seems to be bouncing around doing a lot better. (he is also on antibiotics & Novo-Prednisone).
Can the change in diet really cause this many problems? Both vets we took him to told us to stay away from the RAW diet.
We now how 3 cats all eating different meals which I would like to change as well. I know the kittens will have different requirements than our adult cat, but I would like to get them all eating the same thing in a year or so.
what a week.....
When we got them home, they were both great & eating a mixture of Solid Gold dry & Performa Plus wet. To make a long story short, the male kitten got very sick - anemic to the point the vet wanted to give him a transfusion.
Because we was not eating, out of sheer desperation we fed him an improvised raw meal yesterday - ground turky & chicken liver. It was the first meal he ate all day & he continues to eat it. Today he seems to be bouncing around doing a lot better. (he is also on antibiotics & Novo-Prednisone).
Can the change in diet really cause this many problems? Both vets we took him to told us to stay away from the RAW diet.
We now how 3 cats all eating different meals which I would like to change as well. I know the kittens will have different requirements than our adult cat, but I would like to get them all eating the same thing in a year or so.
what a week.....