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I am basically at my wits end with one of my 4 cats, Daniel, who is a 1 year old, healthy male cat (domestic short hair). We love him to death and really want to narrow down what is causing his food allergy symptoms but time is our worst enemy. We seem to get the symptoms under control fairly quickly with use of steroids (per vet recommendation). But after a month or two of the steroids when we have made dietary adjustments the symptoms slowly come back after 2-3 weeks.
We feed him an exclusively wet food diet of the following:
I and Love and You Beef Pate
I and Love and You Rabbit Pate
Merrick Limited Ingredient Diet Rabbit Pate
Before people recommend higher-end brands, he won't touch them. I did food trials with basically every brand you can think of including Koha, Rawz, Ziwi Peak, Instinct, Hound & Gatos, Commercial Raw diets, and the list goes on. He likes basically none of the flavors or consistencies of these brands. And even when he does like one, he only eats the food for a few cans and then he stops enjoying it. I have been able to get him on a fairly limited diet with the above brands/flavors and he eats them every single time I put them down.
His symptoms keep coming back and we have been dealing with this for about 6 months now. We treat the symptoms to keep him comfortable but I feel obligated to take him off the meds after an extended period of time so we can check and see if the symptoms are recurrent and if his body is still reacting to something. I am new to this. My other 4 cats had health issues growing up but they are all just over 1 year old and healthy as can be. Daniel? He is a complicated case to crack. Does anyone have any insight they can share? I am working directly with a very trusted vet but I also need to be actively doing my own research. This is all so brand new I feel overwhelmed by the thought of trying to figure this out.
We feed him an exclusively wet food diet of the following:
I and Love and You Beef Pate
I and Love and You Rabbit Pate
Merrick Limited Ingredient Diet Rabbit Pate
Before people recommend higher-end brands, he won't touch them. I did food trials with basically every brand you can think of including Koha, Rawz, Ziwi Peak, Instinct, Hound & Gatos, Commercial Raw diets, and the list goes on. He likes basically none of the flavors or consistencies of these brands. And even when he does like one, he only eats the food for a few cans and then he stops enjoying it. I have been able to get him on a fairly limited diet with the above brands/flavors and he eats them every single time I put them down.
His symptoms keep coming back and we have been dealing with this for about 6 months now. We treat the symptoms to keep him comfortable but I feel obligated to take him off the meds after an extended period of time so we can check and see if the symptoms are recurrent and if his body is still reacting to something. I am new to this. My other 4 cats had health issues growing up but they are all just over 1 year old and healthy as can be. Daniel? He is a complicated case to crack. Does anyone have any insight they can share? I am working directly with a very trusted vet but I also need to be actively doing my own research. This is all so brand new I feel overwhelmed by the thought of trying to figure this out.