Question out of curiosity since i read about cats on fancy feast having struvite crystals.
If your cat has no medical problems, you can still post what you feed it.
If your cat has no medical problems, you can still post what you feed it.
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What Medical Problems do your cats have, and what foods do/did you feed it?
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I only have one cat (out of 6) who has a medical problem. He's my oldest, Snickers (14 yo male). He had ONE instance of crystals which was very serious. He has been a special diet ever since (some type of low ph canned food?).
I was so scared, I switched all 6 of my cats, girls & boys aged 3 yrs up to 14... to canned-only diet. NO MORE DRY food. My cats get Authority brand from Petsmart and Snicky gets Hills CD low ph.
Also I make it a point to give them all Laxatone now. I have 2 long-haired cats who get the most furious hairballs you'd ever wanna witness! My short-hairs also get hairballs so they get Laxatone. It works wonders!
I was so scared, I switched all 6 of my cats, girls & boys aged 3 yrs up to 14... to canned-only diet. NO MORE DRY food. My cats get Authority brand from Petsmart and Snicky gets Hills CD low ph.
Also I make it a point to give them all Laxatone now. I have 2 long-haired cats who get the most furious hairballs you'd ever wanna witness! My short-hairs also get hairballs so they get Laxatone. It works wonders!
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Where would I find laxatone? I've got 5 longhairs...
Patrick has chronic renal failure, has for the past 3 years, I try to buy lower phosphorous foods for him, and mainly canned, but the truth is, he gets what ever he will eat.
Tyler, who has a hx of calcium oxalate stones, early diabetes, early crf, and high bp, is on a wet food diet only, and I need to bit the bullet and get him on a home cooked diet...but at this point, he loves fancy feast and that is what I give him (with a potassium supplement)..he's on various meds as well as the potassium.
The rest of my little darlings are on nutro natural choice complete care weight management, and get a daily dose of wet food with lysine added (something new since Tyler's eye issues).
Tyler, who has a hx of calcium oxalate stones, early diabetes, early crf, and high bp, is on a wet food diet only, and I need to bit the bullet and get him on a home cooked diet...but at this point, he loves fancy feast and that is what I give him (with a potassium supplement)..he's on various meds as well as the potassium.
The rest of my little darlings are on nutro natural choice complete care weight management, and get a daily dose of wet food with lysine added (something new since Tyler's eye issues).
Pat where do you get the lysine from?
Hi Sam,
I buy it at my local grocery store. I buy Twinlab brand L-Lysine, in capsule form - then I can open the capsule and give a portion to get the dose I want.
I buy it at my local grocery store. I buy Twinlab brand L-Lysine, in capsule form - then I can open the capsule and give a portion to get the dose I want.
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