I'm having some problems with my 7 month old kitten Lily. I took her to the vet on Friday but I'm not sure how much I can trust her advice on food because she said she really likes Iams and Science Diet is her other favorite. And she prefers dry food.
Lily has been having gas problems. It started during a coccidia infection where she got really bloated. After treatment she would bloat very big and then "deflate" twice or more a day. We were going to bring her in again but she caught Eve's URI and was given antibiotics, which also killed off most of the bloating problems. This was in September.
She continued to have bloating problems but not nearly as bad. She wouldn't swell up as much or as often. I switched her dry food from Eukanuba to Chicken Soup and the bloating decreased some more but still happens. She's also been gaining extra chub. So Thursday I called the vet to make an appointment (and FYI, her URI came back that afternoon
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Vet said she is chubby and put her on a diet. She gave both the kittens dewormers in case the fecal float missed them as that might be causing gas. She also said that switching the wet food like I do might be causing Lily's gas problems so I should only feed canned CS with the dry CS, instead of the Felidae and Innova I've been switching between also (those cans last 4 days, BTW). I think she was going to have me switch to Iams or Science Diet but I told her that CS lessened the gas and really improved Eve's coat a lot.
I also asked her if feeding only wet would be a good idea because Lily only seems to bloat after eating the dry food, and I've never noticed bloat when switching from several days of canned Felidae to something else, etc. She said no.
So for now I'm just going on her recommendations. Only CS wet and dry in the amounts she specified. I'll wait and see if it helps with the bloating too. But has anyone else had bloating problems from switching canned food? Especially since CS, Felidae, and Innova are fairly similar. I'm not really comfortable feeding only one brand because I don't think any one food is perfect.
Does anyone else have cats who get bloated after eating dry food? She doesn't stuff herself with it. Also, she did say that the canned food had much less calories than the dry. Wouldn't it be easier to control her weight with canned food?
Lily has been having gas problems. It started during a coccidia infection where she got really bloated. After treatment she would bloat very big and then "deflate" twice or more a day. We were going to bring her in again but she caught Eve's URI and was given antibiotics, which also killed off most of the bloating problems. This was in September.
She continued to have bloating problems but not nearly as bad. She wouldn't swell up as much or as often. I switched her dry food from Eukanuba to Chicken Soup and the bloating decreased some more but still happens. She's also been gaining extra chub. So Thursday I called the vet to make an appointment (and FYI, her URI came back that afternoon
Vet said she is chubby and put her on a diet. She gave both the kittens dewormers in case the fecal float missed them as that might be causing gas. She also said that switching the wet food like I do might be causing Lily's gas problems so I should only feed canned CS with the dry CS, instead of the Felidae and Innova I've been switching between also (those cans last 4 days, BTW). I think she was going to have me switch to Iams or Science Diet but I told her that CS lessened the gas and really improved Eve's coat a lot.
I also asked her if feeding only wet would be a good idea because Lily only seems to bloat after eating the dry food, and I've never noticed bloat when switching from several days of canned Felidae to something else, etc. She said no.
So for now I'm just going on her recommendations. Only CS wet and dry in the amounts she specified. I'll wait and see if it helps with the bloating too. But has anyone else had bloating problems from switching canned food? Especially since CS, Felidae, and Innova are fairly similar. I'm not really comfortable feeding only one brand because I don't think any one food is perfect.
Does anyone else have cats who get bloated after eating dry food? She doesn't stuff herself with it. Also, she did say that the canned food had much less calories than the dry. Wouldn't it be easier to control her weight with canned food?