we have an 8 yr cat with a urinary infection and is on Clavimox and Prescription Diet CD food---he does not like the food and he doesn't eat, any suggestions. Does can food have any connection to the urinary bacterial infection and if not by can't he have a small amount of can food once a day? I can't just sit by and watch him starve.
If the can food has no connection why is it taken away?
2006-11-06 09:59:40 · 10 answers · asked by Curtis C 1 in Pets ➔ Cats
Does he have infection or blockage? Keep him on his prescription diet, trust me, he won't starve. Also it may be a good idea to give him distilled water. Minerals from tap water can also build up in the urinary tract and cause blockage problems. You might ask your vet if there is any type of canned food he might recommend as well. Some types of cat food are much worse than others. So yes it can be caused by food. Dry is generally worse than canned.
2006-11-06 10:16:21 · answer #1 · answered by Enchanted Gypsy 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If I recall correctly, the urinary blockage is caused by too much magnesium in the diet. The magnesium is present in canned as well as dry foods. Prescription Diet CD comes in both canned and dry varieties. He may prefer one over the other. Talk to your vet about what you might add to the prepared food to make it more palatable to your cat.
I've had cats on this diet, although my guys (thank goodness!) didn't have a problem with eating it. They actually liked it better than their former diet..
2006-11-06 10:09:05 · answer #2 · answered by pessimoptimist 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There are a number of reasons that your cat can get a UTI infection:
Dirty litter box
Bad Diet
Your cat will take to the CD diet soon enough. If you havnt noticed your cat probably stopped eating so much when it got sick. It takes your cat awhile to get better. Your cat probably isnt that interested in eating right now. I would give the cat about a week, they will come around when things start to feel better.
Please do what your vet directed you to, it is the only way your cat will get better, plus now that your cat had one infection it is suseptable to getting another more easliy.
Give lots of fresh clean water every day
Clean the litter everyday
Feed only CD food.
And your little critter will be feeling better in a couple of weeks.
2006-11-06 10:21:30 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Cats, like us, need balance in their diet. If we do not get enough of certain foods, we get infections easier. Same for cats. If you have a cat that gets urinary tract infections easily, there are cats foods available in most brands that address this problem. Look for foood labeled "For urinary tract health". And stay away from the cheapest brands as they usually promise more than they deliver.
Good luck to the cat & its human.
2006-11-06 10:09:40 · answer #4 · answered by bob h 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The motives that many vets are adverse to a uncooked vitamin is that a million) they realize not anything approximately it and a pair of) the truly threat of feeding uncooked is to us people, as you have got to take the equal precautions as you do with dealing with any uncooked meat. Raw meals is what Nature designed a cat to consume. As lengthy as you are feeding uncooked adequately (top high-quality meat - now not stuff that you would not cook dinner for your self as in historic, spoiled or infected meat) that is the first-rate vitamin there may be for a cat. There are a number of versions, adding BARF and the prey mannequin. Either one works. If you can not/may not do uncooked, or do not desire to do it completely, then top class grain-unfastened canned is the right way to move. Cats have little or no use for grains and carbohydrates of their diets. In the wild, the one grains they consume could be the contents of the belly in their prey (assuming they are going to consume that aspect - whilst my cats consume a mouse that will get within the condominium, they consume the beef and bones and depart the "guts"). Feeding uncooked minimizes the addition of further nutrients. Raw meat comprises that predominant amino acid that cats ought to have - taruine. It's the cooking procedure that destroys it that is why it needs to be further to cooked meats, or canned meals. Good forms of canned comprise EVO, Wellness (both their Core, or their consistent ones as so much of them haven't any grain - it is marked at the label), Blue Buffalo Wilderness, and others. Those are those I feed. Dry meals has no situation within the vitamin of a cat with continual urinary issues, as that's what contributed to the issues within the first situation.
2016-09-01 08:15:53 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He won't starve. If it's all he's given, he will eventually eat it. Yes, certain foods can play in the infection. DO NOT give him reg. cat food. He will then hold out for the real stuff and causes the circle to continue.
Be patient and persistant. He will eat.
2006-11-06 10:04:06 · answer #6 · answered by pj 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Canned food is actually better for a cat with a UTI then dry food. New studies have shown that cats that eats wet food as at least part of their daily diet have less UTI, bladder stones,kidney issues then those who eat only dry.
2006-11-06 10:09:26 · answer #7 · answered by Great Dane Lover 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
it's caused by intense buggery. The reason why it can't eat is because it'll pass water or waste and it will be even more painful. So until the cat's healed.... you're going to have to look away if you can't watch him starve
2006-11-06 10:02:51 · answer #8 · answered by antagonist 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it can be treated with a shot,ani-bi-otics.givin by the vet.stop giving him what ever food your giving him and put him on Science Diet.ther's both wet food and dry,try both to see what one he prefers.
2006-11-06 12:17:48 · answer #9 · answered by vern 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
take him to a veternarian. And yes some canned foods may be bad and have bacteria
2006-11-06 10:01:48 · answer #10 · answered by Eventfully 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋