Hi there
Im just after some advise.
My poor baby has really been through the mill the past couple of weeks. He had a bout of cystitis flare up so off we went to the vets who prescribed cystaid,dantrium and hypovase, however he did not respond to this so has been in the vets today and had xrays,scans, blood tests and urine taken directly from his bladder.
The blood tests came back normal apart from high blood glucose, which we are hoping was just the stress of being in the vets but the bloods and urine have been sent to the lab and will be checked for diabetes.
The urine sample showed alot of struvite crystals which is what is obviously causing his problems but luckily the scan showed no stones.
Anyway my reason for posting is that my vet has put him on the royal canin urinary so food, and wants him on this long term. Having looked through the ingrediants Im not sure Im happy feeding this and we have been given the dry food which kind of contradicts everything my vet has been telling me up till today.
We have been weaning him off dry food for a while now and were almost on a complete wet diet as my vet had said this would help with his cystitis, but now my vet is saying that he will be better off on this food, which would put him on a 100% dry diet.
Please could anybody offer some advise as Im really quite confused, after trying for months to get my baby onto a wet diet on the advise of my vet, Im now being told to put him on a totally dry diet
What are you thoughts on this?
Thanks in advance for your replies
Im just after some advise.
My poor baby has really been through the mill the past couple of weeks. He had a bout of cystitis flare up so off we went to the vets who prescribed cystaid,dantrium and hypovase, however he did not respond to this so has been in the vets today and had xrays,scans, blood tests and urine taken directly from his bladder.
The blood tests came back normal apart from high blood glucose, which we are hoping was just the stress of being in the vets but the bloods and urine have been sent to the lab and will be checked for diabetes.
The urine sample showed alot of struvite crystals which is what is obviously causing his problems but luckily the scan showed no stones.
Anyway my reason for posting is that my vet has put him on the royal canin urinary so food, and wants him on this long term. Having looked through the ingrediants Im not sure Im happy feeding this and we have been given the dry food which kind of contradicts everything my vet has been telling me up till today.
We have been weaning him off dry food for a while now and were almost on a complete wet diet as my vet had said this would help with his cystitis, but now my vet is saying that he will be better off on this food, which would put him on a 100% dry diet.
Please could anybody offer some advise as Im really quite confused, after trying for months to get my baby onto a wet diet on the advise of my vet, Im now being told to put him on a totally dry diet
What are you thoughts on this?
Thanks in advance for your replies