All right all, Im going to give you all a little history of my cats so You can help me out!
Alright I didn't want to start a new thread but I have a food question! My BooBoo is 7 years old, and right now he gets Nutro natural Choice for kittens, because I have two kittens! But this is how things went in his 7 years-
I got him and Tissy and gave them purina kitten chow not knowing it wasn't good for them. Then they got older, but I got a new cat named Kitten so I left them on the kitten chow. Then Tissy got a UTI and died of it( September 3rd 2005) so I switched to Hills Science Diet CD (by word of vet) because BooBoo also had a UTI. Then I got Glitch, and so kitten food was needed. Then Kitten got Distemper and died 24 hours later, but I still had Glitch so I left them on the kitten food. Then I got Moocha, he died of Coccidia a week later, then a month after that Glitch passed away of FIP(Nov 16th, 2007, 2:35pm), so back to Hills Science Diet CD I went. But BooBoo no longer liked it! Then 6 days after Glitch died of FIP I got Eek, so this time I switched to Nutro Natural Choice For kittens, and then later, added HoBoJax to the family! Now my vet says that Nutro kitten is okay for BooBoo and UTI safe. But my BooBoo has been on kitten food pretty much his whole life! He has actually started losing weight since I put him on Nutro, he went from 14lbs to 13lbs, which I dont think is too bad because he's so long & tall! He had weighed 14lbs for years, right down to the exact ounce! He has also had way more energy!
My question is, is Nutro Natural Choice for Kittens really UTI safe, and is it safe to have him on it his whole life??? I mean, he's literally almost always been on kitten food! I just want to make sure that I dont lose BooBoo to something stupid like a UTI... When I lost Tissy, my 19day old baby had just had surgery, so I was in the hospital with him for a few days, and when I came home Tissy was in the bathtub just lying there, I petted her and didn't think anything of it. My DH came home and told me she was sick so I took her to the vet right then, the vet had obviously been drinking, and drove up in a corvette, then told me I had to have every penny right then and there! I didn't care how much it cost though. Then he squeezed Tissy's belly really hard, exploded her bladder, she screamed, rolled over and died. I told him to do whatever he could to save her (not realizing that he had exploded her bladder) and he went to try to save her because I was screaming hysterically at this point, then he got the stuff out, looked at me and said she was dead and to get over it and pay my bill. I could not handle losing another that way! Its also really hard to seperate BooBoo's food from the kittens, because they free feed! So What do you do?? I mean, obviously if the kitten food is really UTI safe I will keep using it, but if its not, I really need to know!!
After losing so many cats, Tissy in 2005, Then in 2007 Kitten Died, then Moocha died, and then Glitch died. So Im very over paranoid when It comes to my cats! I want to do everything right, so they have a future with me, and can live long, full, happy lives!!
Right now I have 2 with ringworm (check out my thread "I have a question on anatomy" which maybe I should just start a new one there too because no one has been there in a couple days) and I just want to be cautious! Any help will be appreciated!!
I know I wrote a book here, but this is the abbreviated version!
~Amber~
Alright I didn't want to start a new thread but I have a food question! My BooBoo is 7 years old, and right now he gets Nutro natural Choice for kittens, because I have two kittens! But this is how things went in his 7 years-
I got him and Tissy and gave them purina kitten chow not knowing it wasn't good for them. Then they got older, but I got a new cat named Kitten so I left them on the kitten chow. Then Tissy got a UTI and died of it( September 3rd 2005) so I switched to Hills Science Diet CD (by word of vet) because BooBoo also had a UTI. Then I got Glitch, and so kitten food was needed. Then Kitten got Distemper and died 24 hours later, but I still had Glitch so I left them on the kitten food. Then I got Moocha, he died of Coccidia a week later, then a month after that Glitch passed away of FIP(Nov 16th, 2007, 2:35pm), so back to Hills Science Diet CD I went. But BooBoo no longer liked it! Then 6 days after Glitch died of FIP I got Eek, so this time I switched to Nutro Natural Choice For kittens, and then later, added HoBoJax to the family! Now my vet says that Nutro kitten is okay for BooBoo and UTI safe. But my BooBoo has been on kitten food pretty much his whole life! He has actually started losing weight since I put him on Nutro, he went from 14lbs to 13lbs, which I dont think is too bad because he's so long & tall! He had weighed 14lbs for years, right down to the exact ounce! He has also had way more energy!
My question is, is Nutro Natural Choice for Kittens really UTI safe, and is it safe to have him on it his whole life??? I mean, he's literally almost always been on kitten food! I just want to make sure that I dont lose BooBoo to something stupid like a UTI... When I lost Tissy, my 19day old baby had just had surgery, so I was in the hospital with him for a few days, and when I came home Tissy was in the bathtub just lying there, I petted her and didn't think anything of it. My DH came home and told me she was sick so I took her to the vet right then, the vet had obviously been drinking, and drove up in a corvette, then told me I had to have every penny right then and there! I didn't care how much it cost though. Then he squeezed Tissy's belly really hard, exploded her bladder, she screamed, rolled over and died. I told him to do whatever he could to save her (not realizing that he had exploded her bladder) and he went to try to save her because I was screaming hysterically at this point, then he got the stuff out, looked at me and said she was dead and to get over it and pay my bill. I could not handle losing another that way! Its also really hard to seperate BooBoo's food from the kittens, because they free feed! So What do you do?? I mean, obviously if the kitten food is really UTI safe I will keep using it, but if its not, I really need to know!!
After losing so many cats, Tissy in 2005, Then in 2007 Kitten Died, then Moocha died, and then Glitch died. So Im very over paranoid when It comes to my cats! I want to do everything right, so they have a future with me, and can live long, full, happy lives!!
Right now I have 2 with ringworm (check out my thread "I have a question on anatomy" which maybe I should just start a new one there too because no one has been there in a couple days) and I just want to be cautious! Any help will be appreciated!!
I know I wrote a book here, but this is the abbreviated version!
~Amber~