2/9 Ruby PMPS 200 Canned hydrolyzed food for civvie?

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Katherine&Ruby

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I *think* Ruby pooped today, but not sure. She's definitely overdue. Rejiggered the poop cam situation in the bathroom so that it's above the litterbox now and I can more easily verify. By the looks of her numbers she doesn't seem to have pooped yet. Sigh.

On another note, my civvie Olive went for her annual bloodwork and I told the vet I was concerned about her uneven appetite. I was actually considering putting her on a hydrolyzed kibble diet because she loves kibble, but then the vet called today and said her kidney values have gone higher since last year. I know enough not to freak out about one test, but I'm definitely not feeding her kibble anymore.

Anyone have experience with the canned hydrolyzed protein food? From what I have seen, cats hate it. :rolleyes: Last thing I want to do is buy a case of expensive prescription food that she won't eat. The other thing that makes me freak out a bit is reading the ingredient list on these foods. Do any of them have more than just liver as an animal product?
 
Why hydrolyzed? Aren’t these normally prescribed for IBD cats. I had a cat many years ago who used to eat the Science Diet Z/D dry kibble (this was before I became a grain free wet food cat owner). He loved it, and every other cat did too - they all tried to steal the expensive prescription kibble, naturally.

I hope Olive’s numbers aren’t too bad.
 
Suzanne & Darcy said:
Why hydrolyzed? Aren’t these normally prescribed for IBD cats. I had a cat many years ago who used to eat the Science Diet Z/D dry kibble (this was before I became a grain free wet food cat owner). He loved it, and every other cat did too - they all tried to steal the expensive prescription kibble, naturally.

I hope Olive’s numbers aren’t too bad.
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Olive's numbers aren't too bad (creatinine 2.1, BUN 36), but I am concerned about pushing it. Olive has signs of early IBD from an ultrasound last year, she's not eating much these days, tried novel proteins and she is so finicky that it's been very hard for me to get her to eat something other than pork and she is losing weight. I want to have something she will eat. I may get a bag of Z/D kibble and soak it in water for her to eat.
 
Suzanne & Darcy said:
I understand about Olive needing to eat! Any chance it’s the IBD worsening that’s causing the pickiness? Or acid tummy? Or slight nausea?
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Hard for me to figure out. She's on EOD Cerenia, and that works well to keep her from vomiting, which she will do if I don't give it to her. I just gave her a dose of ondansetron and a B12 shot. She did not eat very much at all today, maybe a half an ounce of her usual raw food. She keeps bugging me for Dr. Elsey's kibble, and I'm trying not to give in too easily. I do think the IBD is worsening, and I have a sinking feeling it could be SCL. She's going to have another ultrasound in June, and the vet suggested depending on the results of putting her on a budesonide trial.

In the meantime, I want to see if hydrolyzed food will help, but looking at the ingredients of all of those foods makes me go :eek:. I mean, is there any meat in those foods? The only thing I see in the Z/D ingredients is chicken liver. It's like putting the cat on a vegan diet with liver supplemented. It goes completely against everything I know to be good for cats.
 
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