It has taken a couple months but it seems we have gotten Naku's vomiting under control (for the most part). Naku is fed wet in the AM and dry in PM, but his dry food (the only one I have been able to find so far), is TOTW River Canyon River Feline Formula and the main protein is fish based (trout and salmon). I know fish isn't great for kitties, but I am trying to find a dry that is similar in price to TOTW but may have an alternative protein than poultry (due to allergies) that we can give him, so we aren't breaking the bank? We have been on this combination for.. about 2 months now and he has been doing alright with vomiting.
His safe foods (wet): Evo 95% Venison, Nature's Variety Lamb or Rabbit, Before Grain Beef, Weruva Steak Frites, L.I.D. Venison, California Natural Salmon & Sweet Potato
Now we are finding he may also have an allergy to rice? We bought California Natural's Venison and Brown Rice and his vomiting started again. So we nixed that food. We also had some treats that we figured would be okay every now and then that didn't contain poultry - Zuke's Natural Purrz Salmon - and he vomits after those as well. I looked at the ingredients and they contain ground rice. The odd thing is though, he is ok with an occasional hairball treat that doesn't contain rice or ground rice, but does contain rice bran and rice flour.
I am still in the beginning stages of figuring out what works for him and what doesn't, but I don't want to keep giving him dry fish based food, if fish really shouldn't be fed that much. Are there any dry foods that aren't fish based but also don't contain poultry? I have been searching and haven't had much luck yet. Also, does anyone have any experience with a rice allergy?
His safe foods (wet): Evo 95% Venison, Nature's Variety Lamb or Rabbit, Before Grain Beef, Weruva Steak Frites, L.I.D. Venison, California Natural Salmon & Sweet Potato
Now we are finding he may also have an allergy to rice? We bought California Natural's Venison and Brown Rice and his vomiting started again. So we nixed that food. We also had some treats that we figured would be okay every now and then that didn't contain poultry - Zuke's Natural Purrz Salmon - and he vomits after those as well. I looked at the ingredients and they contain ground rice. The odd thing is though, he is ok with an occasional hairball treat that doesn't contain rice or ground rice, but does contain rice bran and rice flour.
I am still in the beginning stages of figuring out what works for him and what doesn't, but I don't want to keep giving him dry fish based food, if fish really shouldn't be fed that much. Are there any dry foods that aren't fish based but also don't contain poultry? I have been searching and haven't had much luck yet. Also, does anyone have any experience with a rice allergy?