Wellness Cat Food

savage destiny · Jan 26, 2006

Originally Posted by hareting

i'm pretty shock reading this. becuz my cat was dignosed with crystals in her urine shortly after I adopted her fromthe shelter. when I change her food to wellness cans, her crystals were gone. Do you know if those who got crystals while eaing wellenss, do they get dry only?or dry and wet? and anyone else heard about cats getting crystals cuz they eat wellness???

The cats of the people I know were feeding Wellness dry food. One was a male eating the chicken/turkey variety, the other was a female eating seafood variety. My kitty Ewu was eating the chicken/turkey lite formula, also dry. I don't know about the other five or so cats my vet told me about.

hareting · Jan 27, 2006

Originally Posted by lionessrampant

I tried to do some research on this and even called a friend at the emergency vet and they said they had never heard of crystals being caused by Welless...UNLESS it was a male who was being fed seafood flavors consistently, in which case, the best fish-flavored food in the world would still cause crystals in some males.

yeah i try to stay away from seafood flavours too. as i've read that if the cats eat too much seafood consistently (especially tuna) would have too much fatty acid which will hurt them. Indeed once i've read that only 1 type of forest cat have fish in their natural diet, non of others eat fish as their natural diet. I stop feeding fish / seafood flavours to Nana. Actually i dont' feed beef and lamb either, as i cna't imagine a wild cat killing an animal as large as cow or lamb so I chose to stay away from those. I only feed chicken / turkey flavours...small birds that is more similar to their natural diet.

kombatgrrrl · Jan 28, 2006

Interesting thread...I switched my cat to Wellness canned after he was diagnosed with diabetes. He really only likes the Turkey & chicken flavors.
His blood sugar levels dropped after the food change. (i'm not completely convince that the diagnosis was correct tho)...

ghostuser · Jan 28, 2006

Originally Posted by kombatgrrrl

Interesting thread...I switched my cat to Wellness canned after he was diagnosed with diabetes. He really only likes the Turkey & chicken flavors.
His blood sugar levels dropped after the food change. (i'm not completely convince that the diagnosis was correct tho)...

If switchiing to a low-carb food like Wellness helped, that would make sense, if the cat was diabetic. My Mom's type 2, My Sister and Brother are type 1, my sister had a type 2 cat and me and my Dad are both insulin resistant -- so as a whole my family has a lot of experience with diabetes

Low carb diets definitely help diabetes greatly!!

Why do you feel the diagnosis was off? I recenlty was reading about diabetes in pets becuase my dog was urinating and drinking a lot (was not diabetes though -- lucklily and I used my own glucose monitor to monitor him and find out, rather than paying the vet a small fortune!!) and I found it interesting to read that a dog's normal sugars should be 80 - 110, similar to a human where 80 - 140 would be acceptable, while a cat can go well over 400 just from stress! So if you had just one high sugar reading, you are right -- it may have been another problem. I would imagine, if cats bodies do that, it must be a lot harder to diagnose diabetes in a cat than it is in a human or a dog.

hareting · Jan 30, 2006

Originally Posted by 3CatCrew

If switchiing to a low-carb food like Wellness helped, that would make sense, if the cat was diabetic. My Mom's type 2, My Sister and Brother are type 1, my sister had a type 2 cat and me and my Dad are both insulin resistant -- so as a whole my family has a lot of experience with diabetes

Low carb diets definitely help diabetes greatly!!

Why do you feel the diagnosis was off? I recenlty was reading about diabetes in pets becuase my dog was urinating and drinking a lot (was not diabetes though -- lucklily and I used my own glucose monitor to monitor him and find out, rather than paying the vet a small fortune!!) and I found it interesting to read that a dog's normal sugars should be 80 - 110, similar to a human where 80 - 140 would be acceptable, while a cat can go well over 400 just from stress! So if you had just one high sugar reading, you are right -- it may have been another problem. I would imagine, if cats bodies do that, it must be a lot harder to diagnose diabetes in a cat than it is in a human or a dog.

interesting ..."the can go well over 400 just from stress"...
cats r always so stress out during vet visits, so how do we know if hte results was acurate when the vet do the test????

mabye if anyone's cat is diagnosed to be diabetic then they should buy/borrow a glucose monitor to test the cat at home to make sure ??

ghostuser · Jan 30, 2006

Yeah, I found that pretty daunting when I read that, and I was looking up dogs, but it caught my eye. That might be a good idea, but I wonder where you would test a cat with a glucose monitor? They are so skittish and I bet they wouldn't trust you after that. I know it said on line to check my dog on the inside of his lip -- but it's a safe bet that it would be near impossible to get a blood sample from the inside of a cats lip! I would certainly ask a vet on that one. I know there are urine test strips but A. they are not as accurate and B) how would you test a cats urine??

ghostuser · Jan 30, 2006

Also, as to if the vets diagnosis is correct, I am not sure which test they use at the vet to diagnose. In humans, you can get a test called an A1C -- which measures your average blood sugar over time -- if that is what the vet is using, then it shouldn't be from stress. But if the vet just checks the sugar as a one time thing, then I would at least want a second or possibly third test to confirm it. Another thing, if the cat is showing symptoms at home such as escessive urination, or if they are overweight, I would lean towards them having diabetes and not just from stress as well.

bonesofsteel22 · Jan 31, 2006

WOW.. my second post on here and it's 3 pages

ghostuser · Jan 31, 2006

Originally Posted by BonesOfSteel22

WOW.. my second post on here and it's 3 pages

Ooops! I guess we got a little off topic!

Did you find a good canned food that your cat enjoys??

hareting · Feb 1, 2006

Originally Posted by 3CatCrew

Yeah, I found that pretty daunting when I read that, and I was looking up dogs, but it caught my eye. That might be a good idea, but I wonder where you would test a cat with a glucose monitor? They are so skittish and I bet they wouldn't trust you after that. I know it said on line to check my dog on the inside of his lip -- but it's a safe bet that it would be near impossible to get a blood sample from the inside of a cats lip! I would certainly ask a vet on that one. I know there are urine test strips but A. they are not as accurate and B) how would you test a cats urine??

i've read taht you could substitude fish tank marbles with ur regular cat litter, so it won't soak up the urine, and you could get a sample for the test strips.

ghostuser · Feb 1, 2006

Originally Posted by hareting

i've read taht you could substitude fish tank marbles with ur regular cat litter, so it won't soak up the urine, and you could get a sample for the test strips.

What a great idea!! I have to remember that if Mew ever gets crystals again!! (Hopefully she won't -- but you never know)

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