So, Among the different Foods I've tried with my kitties, When I had Horatio only, I used Purina One Urinary Tract Health, I was told before I got him he had 'loose stools' but had fecal checks and had no issues, so I was given him with that stated as a 'quirk'
Upon advise on here I swiched him to Nutro Max and after about a week on that his stools AMAZINGLY became firmer and certianly less toxic.
Then we got Max etc, stayed on the same food etc.
THEN Nutro Max decided to CHANGE their formula to make it 'better'
My cats would NOT touch it. Yuki would even go to her bowl and scrape the floor by it like she was burying it.
SINCE then I have been on the constant FOOD BATTLE.
Reluctantly I shelled out a few more dollars and gave Nutro Natural Choice a try. They ate it. They LIKED it. Horatio's stool remained hard, I was happy on our first 8lb bag, then I began to realize, I HAD been noticing some icky stools which progressively because complete diarreah, then one day I noticed a 'jelly like poo' on the hallway floor.
I came to realize that it was not infact Horatio, but is Yuki now having the digestive issues on Nutro Natural Choice. While taking her in to have a fecal examination and overall health check, the fecal came back fine (other than the consistancy I'd assume?) and she came out with a clear bill of health & I was given a prescription card for a Perscription sensitive stomach diet, that inturn I read the label was HEAVY on the Corn.
I'm not nutrionist... but Horatio has issues with Purina One (it has corn), He has no issues with Nutro, they have NO Corn. With this in mind I did not purchase it, as using this to try to 'help' Yuki I would be causing a problem in Horatio.
(*sigh* Thankfully only dietary requirements Max needs is a nice low mag to help him not to get another severe UTI as he had when he was brought into my home.)
So I did my Googling on the issue... A majority of the advise was pushing for the RAW diet, and or Grain Free. I did a search on Grain Free and what is readily available around me and cost effective, I settled on 'Taste of the Wild' At 23.99 for a 15lb bag, I found it comparable if not cheaper to what I had been purchasing before. (Nutro I was paying 18.99 per 8lb bag)
BEFORE actually buying a bag I wanted to stop in here to ask if anyone uses this, or Grain Free foods, if they had experienced similar issues as I am seeing and if this really did help in the long run.
Sorry for the Long windedness of this post, I just wanted to get all the info down
Also what perplexes me, is what ingredient could be different from the Old Nutro Max, to the switch to Nutro Natural Choice that is upsetting Yuki's tummy? I can't really figure that one out... But I am hoping that going grain free should just be an overall good switch for all my kitties.
I'm open to any and all comments and suggestions you all may have.
Thank you for reading my long post
Upon advise on here I swiched him to Nutro Max and after about a week on that his stools AMAZINGLY became firmer and certianly less toxic.
Then we got Max etc, stayed on the same food etc.
THEN Nutro Max decided to CHANGE their formula to make it 'better'
My cats would NOT touch it. Yuki would even go to her bowl and scrape the floor by it like she was burying it.
SINCE then I have been on the constant FOOD BATTLE.
Reluctantly I shelled out a few more dollars and gave Nutro Natural Choice a try. They ate it. They LIKED it. Horatio's stool remained hard, I was happy on our first 8lb bag, then I began to realize, I HAD been noticing some icky stools which progressively because complete diarreah, then one day I noticed a 'jelly like poo' on the hallway floor.
I came to realize that it was not infact Horatio, but is Yuki now having the digestive issues on Nutro Natural Choice. While taking her in to have a fecal examination and overall health check, the fecal came back fine (other than the consistancy I'd assume?) and she came out with a clear bill of health & I was given a prescription card for a Perscription sensitive stomach diet, that inturn I read the label was HEAVY on the Corn.
I'm not nutrionist... but Horatio has issues with Purina One (it has corn), He has no issues with Nutro, they have NO Corn. With this in mind I did not purchase it, as using this to try to 'help' Yuki I would be causing a problem in Horatio.
(*sigh* Thankfully only dietary requirements Max needs is a nice low mag to help him not to get another severe UTI as he had when he was brought into my home.)
So I did my Googling on the issue... A majority of the advise was pushing for the RAW diet, and or Grain Free. I did a search on Grain Free and what is readily available around me and cost effective, I settled on 'Taste of the Wild' At 23.99 for a 15lb bag, I found it comparable if not cheaper to what I had been purchasing before. (Nutro I was paying 18.99 per 8lb bag)
BEFORE actually buying a bag I wanted to stop in here to ask if anyone uses this, or Grain Free foods, if they had experienced similar issues as I am seeing and if this really did help in the long run.
Sorry for the Long windedness of this post, I just wanted to get all the info down
Also what perplexes me, is what ingredient could be different from the Old Nutro Max, to the switch to Nutro Natural Choice that is upsetting Yuki's tummy? I can't really figure that one out... But I am hoping that going grain free should just be an overall good switch for all my kitties.
I'm open to any and all comments and suggestions you all may have.
Thank you for reading my long post