So Lucas has crystals in his urine. The doctor prescribed antibiotics and also said that Lucas needs to eat Hill's C/D prescription diet FOR LIFE. The hell??
Now is the prescription diet really needed? The reason I ask is that I've done tons and tons of research on cat food when I got Lucas (this forum helped a lot), and the basic things I learned about cat food was that:
-corn is bad for cats
-any by-product meal is bad quality meat and should be avoided
-you should have meat as the first ingredient
-the higher the protein, the better
So I've been feeding him a combination of Innova Evo and Chicken Soup for the Soul, their main ingredients are meats and none of them have corn listed as an ingredient. Now on Hills C/D diet the list of ingredients starts with: brewer's rice (bad, it should be meat first), chicken by-product meal (by-products are the bad parts of the chicken!), corn gluten meal (bad!), pork fat and the rest are preservatives/flavorings/supplements.
Now is that really necessary that I put Lucas in a bad quality food just because he has crystals??? Isn't it better to maybe increase his wet food, and reduce his dry food a bit, but keep him on GOOD quality food as opposed to be feeding him crap?
Is there anything I can add to his current food to help avoid the recurrence of crystals? I really really really hate the idea of putting him on a lower quality food with worse ingredients!!
Now is the prescription diet really needed? The reason I ask is that I've done tons and tons of research on cat food when I got Lucas (this forum helped a lot), and the basic things I learned about cat food was that:
-corn is bad for cats
-any by-product meal is bad quality meat and should be avoided
-you should have meat as the first ingredient
-the higher the protein, the better
So I've been feeding him a combination of Innova Evo and Chicken Soup for the Soul, their main ingredients are meats and none of them have corn listed as an ingredient. Now on Hills C/D diet the list of ingredients starts with: brewer's rice (bad, it should be meat first), chicken by-product meal (by-products are the bad parts of the chicken!), corn gluten meal (bad!), pork fat and the rest are preservatives/flavorings/supplements.
Now is that really necessary that I put Lucas in a bad quality food just because he has crystals??? Isn't it better to maybe increase his wet food, and reduce his dry food a bit, but keep him on GOOD quality food as opposed to be feeding him crap?
Is there anything I can add to his current food to help avoid the recurrence of crystals? I really really really hate the idea of putting him on a lower quality food with worse ingredients!!