Recent Content by swoshum

Well that must explain why almost every cat I know of that is fed a mostly corn food sheds like crazy and has dandruff! Silly me, I never knew! I bet the pet food companies LOVE you! That's ridiculous, feral cats aren't as "healthy" because they are more exposed to the elements and don't have...

I wasn't telling her to ignore her cats if they seemed ill. I told her that raw is the best diet in the world for a CRF cat (or any cat for that matter) if you can get them to eat it. It's also ideal for any cat with diabetes (it will almost guarantee your cat will never develop diabetes unless...

Well there's your problem, you're reading the wrong information! There are many misinformed people out there who think that cats need to have pre-prepared ground food in order to have a healthy, balanced diet. That is simply false information. Try reading this page instead...

I would really not listen to your vet on this matter, sadly, I probably know more about nutrition than your vet does (and even more sadly, that's not an exaggeration). I know of several cats on raw who are all doing beautifully on it. I have a 15 year old cat in renal failure and she has been...

I'm not so dense as to fall for the marketing schemes of the pet food industry. I was talking more about a proper prey model raw diet (not even the pre-made veggie patties they pass as raw kibble which is still miles better than all other kibble brands on the market). You're darn right I'm not...

Vets can also squeeze the bladder manually and induce urination in the cat and collect it in a little pan right there on the exam table if your cat will let them! My vet does this all the time and it works great! You have to be really careful when doing a cysto because if the cat moves at all...

I'll post Swoshum's numbers later, but my 15 year old kitty was diagnosed with beginning/early stage renal failure about three months ago. So we put her on SQ fluid therapy and benazepril and was told to come in for a re-check on bloodwork three months later. So today we went in and she is...

Actually, if you look at the ingredients in most of these foods, they are very similar to each other and mostly just filled with corn, wheat, soy, gluten, and byproducts. I'm sure they work great for some people just like how some cats can live just fine on meow mix or Science Diet. However, I...

yeah one of the ladies I work with feeds it to her cats and just rotates them between all of the flavors. Though she was disappointed when I pointed out that all of the formulas are practically identical with only the very first ingredient being different. Still, some variety is better than...

well keep in mind that the "specialty" foods sold by vets are usually just the same garbage you can pick up in a grocery store, they just have a MUCH higher price tag. And a lot of the time, we think our pets are doing "just fine" on a food until we either 1) switch to a genuinely better food...

Yeah, and the chemical preservatives aren't going to help either. I would definitely recommend a much higher quality food!

That's cool, I didn't realize they were so rare! We just had one become a regular patient at the vet clinic I work at and she is absolutely beautiful and loves to be on your shoulders.

oh yeah sorry, I forgot about that, I'm so used to raw feeding and my kitties crunching away through drumsticks! So yeah true, they don't chew their dry food, so they could just swallow it whole I guess, that just seems so hard on the gut. Well kibble in general is anyway. Besides it will be...

Yeah one of the accredited animal hospitals I went to especially was the worst I had ever seen. They would just drain people of their money and send their animals home sicker than when they came in!

Oh that's good! We just had about 3 older cats come into the clinic with similar symptoms this week and they were all in liver failure so I was scared I'm glad Casper is feeling better, hopefully it was just a tummy ache!