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Thank you!  He seems to like it ok so far - we have to mix in a little of the Ziwipeak canned food to get him to eat it.  One more question - is Nature's Variety raw as good as you can get before going "full" raw (i.e., buying your own meats from a butcher)?  

Thanks for your reply.  He has been eating Ziwipeak and been at 10 pounds for several months now.  He loves it, but it is so expensive.  I'm pretty sure the raw is better for him anyway.  It is about $120 a month for Ziwipeak but would only be $55 for the NV raw!

Good evening, When I switched my cat from dry to canned food, I tried a lot of different brands of canned food. (He had a granuloma on his upper lip and the vet said to try staying away from chicken, since it is the most common food allergy and likely the cause of his bump.)  The only one he...

Hello everyone, I am ready to get my one year old cat insured.  He is male and neutered.  I am trying to decide between PetsBest and PetPlan.  Any preferences or advice? Thanks so much, Katie

Thanks!  They said it is a "rodent ulcer" - a granuloma.  He got a little steroid shot and they said it could be an allergy.  So we are switching him to a "hypoallergenic" diet.  We are trying Evo Venison canned food.  I wanted to get him switched to canned food anyway.  Hopefully it doesn't...

Hello, Thank you for the responses.  He is an indoor only cat and we did notice it rather suddenly.  (Although it could have been growing slowly and we just noticed it because it got big enough.)  His appetite is good.  He hasn't been scratching at his mouth with his paws but he does rub...

Good evening, I just noticed my one year old male cat has a swollen upper lip.  The slightly red tint caught my eye, but upon closer inspection it has more of a brown, "scabby" coloring.  After looking around his mouth, I noticed he also has a pink "patch" in the black lining of his lip -...

Thank you! That is helpful. So is it ok to buy meat at the grocery store? I thought I read somewhere that it wasn't..

Auntie Crazy, Do you feed your cats pre-made raw diets or make your own. It looks like the pre-made stuff would cost about $4 a day...

One more question - about how much canned food do you feed a five month old kitten? Do you just follow the feeding guidelines for the company or is there a general rule that works? I thought maybe 2, 3.3oz cans? Maybe it's double? I saw one company that advised 2/3 of a 3oz can per 2 pounds...

Oh yeah, haha, I guess I was just assuming high quality wet food. I didn't even consider the low quality wet food in there. That would be nice if we could just transition him to a variety of high quality wet foods.

And, just out of curiosity, from what I've read the hierarchy of worst to best for feeding your cat would be: Bad dry food Good dry food Good dry food and canned food Canned food Canned food and raw Raw Is that right?

Auntie Crazie - so canned food should not cause diarrhea, as the vet tech thought? I was waiting to get him stable on a good dry food before I even thought about canned food because he is already not able to have totally firm stools. If I were going to put my cat on an exclusively canned...

Thank you! So maybe the Wellness Core isn't too rich and we just need to give it more time? He's been on it 100% for about a week and a half.

Haha, yep! I just read your post below and that sounds very familiar! I called a specialty pet food store and they said that they had received a lot of complaints about loose stool and lots of gas from owners who fed Wilderness and Wellness Core. I'm thinking maybe it's time to look for...

Hello, I read around online and on the nutrition/health forums on this site. I adopted a five month old kitten about a month ago and I'm trying to figure out the best diet for him. I thought grain-free was a given, but after reading that long post from a few months ago, I'm not so sure. He...

Thanks so much for the replies. I actually adopted the kitten through the vet - they run a kitten adoption program. They have had the kitten since he was only a few weeks old. He came in very small with his littermates and they nursed him back to health (along with deworming, vaccinations...

Hello everyone, We recently adopted a 17 week old "kitten". He came to us on Iams Kitten food, so we gradually changed his food to something healthier. We went with Blue Buffalo Wilderness. We made sure to do the slow mixing, with 25% new/75% old, and so on. However, he developed diarrhea as...