Hi All, a little background first before I ask my question. We have a male cat, his name is Totis, he is 5 years old. When he was a baby we fed him Kitten Chow and then switched to Cat chow as he got older. About a year and a half ago he starting having issues. He would sit on anything smooth he could find, plastic bag etc and he would urinate but only a few drops would come out. He would still urinate in his litter box also. We took him to the vet, we were told his urine had crystals in it and his PH was incorrect. The vet gave us Methigel, antibiotics, even though he had no infection. He stated he needed a food for UTI. He suggested we get Purina one urinary tract formula, we bought this and the problems went away for about a year. He then started throwing up the food pretty consistently. We took him back to the wet, they did a urinalysis and everything looked fine then, this has been about 4-5 months ago, he suggested we switch the food to Science Diet sensitive stomach. We switched and the throw up problems went away, everything seemed fine until last week. My wife notice he had urinated a small amount on some of her work clothing scrubs.. (a little background, he is excellent about going in the box, no mistakes or anything). We took him back to the vet, another urine check, the vet was a little concerned that his bladder was full, he stated his PH was high and recommended we switch him back to the old science diet food, but I feel like this isn't good advice, he also gave us methigel and antibiotics again, no infection present.
In my opinion my cat needs a food to help lower his PH and one that is easily digestable and will not upset his stomach. I am considering Nutro MAX and Innova EVO, this seems like high quality, but will all that protein be hard on his kidneys etc. The vet wants us to switch food and bring him back in 2-3 weeks for another urine check. Note our cat will not eat wet food at all.
What do you guys think? Should I stay with a urinary track formula food or just go with a high quality non-grain food?
Greg
In my opinion my cat needs a food to help lower his PH and one that is easily digestable and will not upset his stomach. I am considering Nutro MAX and Innova EVO, this seems like high quality, but will all that protein be hard on his kidneys etc. The vet wants us to switch food and bring him back in 2-3 weeks for another urine check. Note our cat will not eat wet food at all.
What do you guys think? Should I stay with a urinary track formula food or just go with a high quality non-grain food?
Greg