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Question

My vet just put my cat on this dry food. Does it work and does it cover all of the nutritional needs she may have?

Thanks

Answer 1

Yes, it's a good food and designed to help prevent struvite crystals. It is completely balanced. I've worked for vets for over 20 years, and it's an excellent food. You simply cannot tell by labels how good a food is. Ingredient lists are tricky and very misleading.
My cat is over 18 and has eaten Science Diet nearly his whole life. Listen to your vet on this one, not people on this list.

FYI--FALSE: vets get absolutely no kick back from selling Hill's or Science Diet or any other prescription foods. Carrying these foods is done only to benefit the patient--receiving, storing, and lugging bags and cases of food around is not fun. The mark-up is minimal compared to retail stores.

Answer 2

Hi
Your vet gave you this 'stuff' for sturvite crystals? Can I ask how they were diagnosed?
Did you read the ingrediants? Where is the meat????
Brewers Rice, Corn Gluten Meal, Chicken By-Product Meal, Pork Fat (preserved with mixed tocopherols and citric acid), Chicken Liver Flavor, Fish Oil, Potassium Chloride
know what most of this is, I hope you don't!

it does help a bit, but does NOT meet your cats needs for nutrtion and is poor quality as well as loaded with a whopping 35% carbohydrates which is not what a carnivore needs. The other thjing is it doesn't address the problems that caused the crystals. What most likely cause them is DRY FOOD in the first place. The system needs water which is what dry food deprives the system of.
Feed a quality canned food

Nutrition since there are so many bad things out there is very important to your cat’s health
Contrary to what you may have heard, dry foods are not a great thing to feed a cat.
Dry foods are the number 1 cause of diabetes in cats as well as being a huge contributing factor to kidney disease, obesity, crystals, u.t.i’s and a host of other problems. The problems with it are that they are loaded with carbohydrates which many cats (carnivores) cannot process. Most of the moisture a cat needs is gotten
out of the food and 95% of it is zapped out of dry foods in the processing. Also, most use horrible ingredients and don't use a muscle meat as the primary ingredient and use vegetable based protein versus animal. Not good for an animal that has to eat meat to survive.
You want to pick a canned food w/o gravy (gravy=carbs) that uses a muscle meat as the first ingredient and doesn't have corn at least in the first 3 ingredients if at all. Fancy feast is a middle grade food with 9lives, friskies whiskas lower grade canned and wellness and merrick upper grade human quality foods.Also, dry food is not proven to be better for teeth. Please read about cat nutrition.

http://www.newdestiny.us/nutritionbasics.html

Answer 3

Dry food a bad choice , my little tiger got a blockage inside his intestines because of dry food , and started building up gas, when I took him in , the recommended staying overnight at whichpoint I said forget it because noone was going to watch him , they just were going to lock him up for the night , tuna oil now and then keeps things sliding through nicely, Try Whiska's ™ brands pouch wet food , ya cannot go wrong, After my lil guy had a logjam and finally poo-ed it was 9 inches long and about an inch wide, thats nearly 3/4 his length, he intestines folded over on itself and the food caused him an internal bacterial infection , after antibiotics and oil of tuna and a good massage and lots of crying for him to not die on me he made it , and is eating wet food today still , Try the Choice cuts pouches Beefy and chicken are what mine like most. when the cat hides he is kind of in a way going off to die
My vet always pushes food ( they get a small kickback for selling it off ) on me too I just throw it away , mine never eat it

Answer 4

I answered your second question, but I'll discuss this product more here.

It's crappy, overpriced food. It may technically do the trick, and it won't harm your cat if you feed it on a temporary basis, but it won't do for the long term.

Here are the ingredients:
Pork by-products - which byproducts? Hooves, ears, tongue, what?????
water, pork liver, chicken, chicken fat (preserved with mixed tocopherols and citric acid),
rice - CARBS! Cats don't need this.
oat fiber,
corn meal - MORE CARBS!, starch (CARBS!), corn gluten meal (CARBS!)
, guar gum, DL-methionine, taurine, brewers dried yeast (A DICY INGREDIENT), minerals (calcium sulfate, dicalcium phosphate, potassium chloride, calcium carbonate, salt, zinc oxide, ferrous sulfate, copper sulfate, manganous oxide, calcium iodate, sodium selenite), beta-carotene, vitamins (choline chloride, vitamin D3 supplement, vitamin E supplement, thiamine mononitrate, ascorbic acid(a source of vitamin C), niacin, pyridoxine hydrochloride, calcium pantothenate, riboflavin, folic acid, biotin, vitamin B12 supplement).

I'm no chemist, but this stuff has a mere sprinkling of meat and is loaded with carbs and allergens.

Answer 5

Most of the vet prescription foods are made by Hill's and they use by-product meat in making their foods. I would never use any of it.

What is your vet's reason for giving this food? Dry food is a very poor choice in feeding a cat anyway.

Answer 6

That is good for cats with a specific condition -- I believe stones is one of them. Science Diet is not my favorite since they have questionable meat sources, but you can sometimes be restricted iwth these special diets.

Answer 7

I'm assuming your feline has Lower Urinary Tract Disease.