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Does anyone have any thoughts on the Purina One Plus Sensitive Skin and Stomach or the Iams Sensitive Digestion and Skin food?
This was SO helpful thank you so much!Purina completed a longitudinal study during COVID and promptly changed all their formulas (in 2020 to 2021) to be closer to the recipe that they found extended the life of cats in the study.
Personally, I found it to be great. All my cats were good on Purina and their coats super soft. Magnus developed a beef allergy and we had to change foods. Otherwise, they'd still be on it.
I tried Iams as it doesn't have beef but as it does have higher grains, two of my cats gained weight. Nobel, my now late cat would always pack on the weight with a high grain level in his food. That was just his personal body. Many cats do well on Iams.
There's no issues with these commercial foods if they agree with your cats. The main brands of commercial foods have been around for a long time helping us to extend the lives of our cats. I would suggest if you can give them at least one can of wet food with extra water a day, that it will help with health and lower the amount of dry food they have (and then lower the risk of the Iams making them gain weight!). Even something inexpensive. I used to grab the Fancy Feast kitten pack as it was $6 at Walmart and give them each a 1/2 can in the AM and 1/2 can at night.
What's in My Cat's Food?: Designer Diets, Grain Free Diets | VCA | VCA Canada Animal Hospitals
Happy to help! It's hard to wade through what little data there is past all the food opinions for cats.This was SO helpful thank you so much!
Oh okay. How old are they? Sometimes if you switch food too fast, it can cause diarrhea. Have they been checked for worms? I know with one of my kittens, even though the fecal came back negative multiple, I would find a dead worm in his stool. So the vet gave panacur twice daily for 5 days and recommended I use revolution or revolution plus topical since it's a 5 in 1. The panacur did help for the most part, but the revolution plus seemed to have solved the diarrhea in my boy. I guess maybe that's cuz it absorbs into the blood and paralyzes the worms.2 out of the 3 are having diarrhea. One has had it on and off for a while so we wanted to try to switch foods to see if that would help. The vet just gave her a syringe of medicine. I think the other is just stressed (cat intros). I am trying to look for more affordable but safe and good options!
They are 1 and estimated 2 years. I mixed their old food with their new food and added more everyday for about a week until they were completely on the new food! The 2 year old seems to be doing a lot better. She was dewormed a couple months ago. I’m not sure with what but it was just one dose. The 1 year old seems like she’s doing better as well just not as much as good as the other. No more blood but still has diarrhea sometimes. She was dewormed as a kitten but hasn’t been again. She was also wormed with one dose. She doesn’t have any signs to have worms other than diarrhea. But no scooting, worms in poop or anything like that. Is panacur a prescription or something you can get over the counter?Oh okay. How old are they? Sometimes if you switch food too fast, it can cause diarrhea. Have they been checked for worms? I know with one of my kittens, even though the fecal came back negative multiple, I would find a dead worm in his stool. So the vet gave panacur twice daily for 5 days and recommended I use revolution or revolution plus topical since it's a 5 in 1. The panacur did help for the most part, but the revolution plus seemed to have solved the diarrhea in my boy. I guess maybe that's cuz it absorbs into the blood and paralyzes the worms.