I'm not sure if this is the correct forum, so please be patient with me =)
I have six cats, one of which has a liver problem. Cerebus had her 1st bout when she was about 3. She stopped eating and slept all of the time. We took her to an (okay) vet and he kept her for a couple of days, re-hydrated her, and put her on anti-biotics. Told us she had some sort of liver problem (could tell from the blood work) and she either would get better or wouldn't. He told us there wasn't anything any one could do, so we shouldn't invest the money into a specialist. We didn't and she got better. 3 years later we went through this again. I went into denial (bad kitty mommy) and didn't take her to the vet until she was nothing but skin and bones (we tried to get her to eat, begged her but she wouldn't). We had moved and I had heard of a really good vet who was feline only. so we called her up on a weekend and asked to have Cerebus put to sleep =( Well, the vet saved her (that is how we learned the other vet was just okay not great and wonderful like our current one). However the vet put her on Science Diet L/D (liver diet). I am on a research dog and cat food kick and found out that this food (Science Diet) isn't as wonderful as I thought and what the vet thinks. So I am looking for a new cat food liver diet (I just found a new dog food, working on Cerebus and then the other cats =) ). Cerebus has a fibrus liver (tough and stringy and doesn't work as well as a totaly healthy one does) and we do blood work every 6 months now.
Does any one know of any cat food makers that use human grade food ingredients?
Thank you for your patience and sorry it was so long but...
Heather V. Havel
Michigan - USA
I have six cats, one of which has a liver problem. Cerebus had her 1st bout when she was about 3. She stopped eating and slept all of the time. We took her to an (okay) vet and he kept her for a couple of days, re-hydrated her, and put her on anti-biotics. Told us she had some sort of liver problem (could tell from the blood work) and she either would get better or wouldn't. He told us there wasn't anything any one could do, so we shouldn't invest the money into a specialist. We didn't and she got better. 3 years later we went through this again. I went into denial (bad kitty mommy) and didn't take her to the vet until she was nothing but skin and bones (we tried to get her to eat, begged her but she wouldn't). We had moved and I had heard of a really good vet who was feline only. so we called her up on a weekend and asked to have Cerebus put to sleep =( Well, the vet saved her (that is how we learned the other vet was just okay not great and wonderful like our current one). However the vet put her on Science Diet L/D (liver diet). I am on a research dog and cat food kick and found out that this food (Science Diet) isn't as wonderful as I thought and what the vet thinks. So I am looking for a new cat food liver diet (I just found a new dog food, working on Cerebus and then the other cats =) ). Cerebus has a fibrus liver (tough and stringy and doesn't work as well as a totaly healthy one does) and we do blood work every 6 months now.
Does any one know of any cat food makers that use human grade food ingredients?
Thank you for your patience and sorry it was so long but...
Heather V. Havel
Michigan - USA