We had been feeding Gabriel the Royal Canin SO formula for awhile until it got to be too expensive. We switched to Purina One Urinary Tract formula and so far it has been working well (2 months going strong). Only problem is that Chicken is the third ingredient, and it's sandwiched between corn, wheat, and more corn. Someone had mentioned to me that Iams makes an Original Chicken formula that supposedly promotes healthy urinary pH balance. I looked at the magnesium content, and it was 0.10%, a little higher than I'd like (PurOne is 0.08%) but the ingredients are substantially better...Chicken and Chicken Meal are in the first five ingredients, Chicken being the first, and Chicken Meal being the fifth.
So has anyone had luck feeding Iams Original Formula to a UTI-prone and diagnosed cat with good luck? I'm hoping we can switch back to Iams as my wife has always had good luck feeding it and she's partial to it. If we had the choice we'd feed more premium foods but we are having a hard enough time separating the 4Health Active Cat formula for our two other cats and keeping Gabe on his UTI formula, without him sneaking bites here and there of the other stuff (silly boy)!
Should we stick with what works for awhile and then switch over or should we just stay with what we are on now?
(btw, I've heard the whole holistic speal for awhile, truth is we were going grain-free and that's when his UTI's started!)
So has anyone had luck feeding Iams Original Formula to a UTI-prone and diagnosed cat with good luck? I'm hoping we can switch back to Iams as my wife has always had good luck feeding it and she's partial to it. If we had the choice we'd feed more premium foods but we are having a hard enough time separating the 4Health Active Cat formula for our two other cats and keeping Gabe on his UTI formula, without him sneaking bites here and there of the other stuff (silly boy)!
Should we stick with what works for awhile and then switch over or should we just stay with what we are on now?
(btw, I've heard the whole holistic speal for awhile, truth is we were going grain-free and that's when his UTI's started!)
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