I'm hoping that some of you may be able to provide me a new direction to go in my search for a new dry kibble for my cats. Here's the background:
My cats have been on (in order): Cat Chow, then Pro Plan, then Royal Canin Indoor 27. Then, when I learned there was more to life than cat food you can buy at PetSmart, I switched them to Innova Evo.
Cleo didn't do well with the Evo; she just kept vomiting. In hindsight, I think I may have been the cause of this; I started to mix the food, old and new, together and introduce them slowly, but when I realized how much they loved the new, better-for-you food, I switched them over entirely. Not much of a good intro period, to say the least.
Since Cleo started vomiting because of the Evo, my vet thought she might be having an allergic reaction to the fish content in it and we switched to California Natural, which everyone hated and refused to touch.
When I switched everybody over to CN, I did it too quickly again; I didn't want Cleo to continue having problems and certainly didn't want the boys to have something that she loves but can't have.
Looking back on it now, I think that not doing slow incorporations of old/new may have been my biggest mistake. "OMG! Kellie, you should NOT do that!" I know, I know.
After we switched over to CN, Charlie started having issues with going to the restroom. After a trip to the vet, she diagnosed him with cystitis. We treated him, got him all better, and then he got it a second time. After a trip to the emergency vet and then a follow-up with our vet, he had struvites and she recommended that he be put on RC Urinary SO, so that's what we did.
I switched over immediately again, since they weren't even eating the CN, and have very few problems since.
So, everyone's eating RC Urinary SO now. But ugh. Do you guys know what's IN that stuff?!? I did the wrong thing the other day and looked up every ingredient in there. I should not have done that. I had already made up my mind to find something better...why did I do that???
I'm also giving Charlie and Ramsey a medallion per day each of the Nature's Variety raw frozen rabbit. They absolutely love it. Albert won't touch it and Cleo only settles if it's the only thing she's given.
So here's the dilemma: I want to find a food that is not fish based, that is grain free and that has added cranberry so that it'll ease my fears of Charlie having a recurrence. I don't want to feed them raw because I'll only want to feed the medallions- which I'm thinking of switching out for Stella and Chewy's raw frozen chicken, since it has added cranberries- and because Albert won't touch it. He's the kind of eater that if he doesn't like it, he'd rather starve.
So, does anyone have any suggestions for me?
My cats have been on (in order): Cat Chow, then Pro Plan, then Royal Canin Indoor 27. Then, when I learned there was more to life than cat food you can buy at PetSmart, I switched them to Innova Evo.
Cleo didn't do well with the Evo; she just kept vomiting. In hindsight, I think I may have been the cause of this; I started to mix the food, old and new, together and introduce them slowly, but when I realized how much they loved the new, better-for-you food, I switched them over entirely. Not much of a good intro period, to say the least.
Since Cleo started vomiting because of the Evo, my vet thought she might be having an allergic reaction to the fish content in it and we switched to California Natural, which everyone hated and refused to touch.
When I switched everybody over to CN, I did it too quickly again; I didn't want Cleo to continue having problems and certainly didn't want the boys to have something that she loves but can't have.
Looking back on it now, I think that not doing slow incorporations of old/new may have been my biggest mistake. "OMG! Kellie, you should NOT do that!" I know, I know.
After we switched over to CN, Charlie started having issues with going to the restroom. After a trip to the vet, she diagnosed him with cystitis. We treated him, got him all better, and then he got it a second time. After a trip to the emergency vet and then a follow-up with our vet, he had struvites and she recommended that he be put on RC Urinary SO, so that's what we did.
I switched over immediately again, since they weren't even eating the CN, and have very few problems since.
So, everyone's eating RC Urinary SO now. But ugh. Do you guys know what's IN that stuff?!? I did the wrong thing the other day and looked up every ingredient in there. I should not have done that. I had already made up my mind to find something better...why did I do that???
I'm also giving Charlie and Ramsey a medallion per day each of the Nature's Variety raw frozen rabbit. They absolutely love it. Albert won't touch it and Cleo only settles if it's the only thing she's given.
So here's the dilemma: I want to find a food that is not fish based, that is grain free and that has added cranberry so that it'll ease my fears of Charlie having a recurrence. I don't want to feed them raw because I'll only want to feed the medallions- which I'm thinking of switching out for Stella and Chewy's raw frozen chicken, since it has added cranberries- and because Albert won't touch it. He's the kind of eater that if he doesn't like it, he'd rather starve.
So, does anyone have any suggestions for me?