Lara & Luciole (Lu)
Member Since 2013
After yesterday's breathtakingly high PMPS she's having a nice morning so far.
She doesn't have a huge appetite, or at least not for the last hour, but is still eating enough.
@Marje and Gracie I saw your information in Jason & Koha's thread about the suspected issue with some commercial pet foods, and have sent the video to basically everyone I know who has a companion animal. I don't think I'm not going to be giving Lu any more Fancy Feast, although I do have some put aside in my hypo kit, and can find something else that's high carb.
Thank you for sharing this info. I had no idea, and very much want to know about stuff like this. It reminds me of when I started giving my cats a raw diet in 1998, because of my cat Mog developing crystals in his urine. The vet's proposed solution, to give him a vet diet that would make him want to drink more, seemed like two wrongs not making a right. I wanted to find out why he was having that problem in the first place. As soon as I switched to a raw diet, he never had crystals again. People thought I was very eccentric to be doing this, at the time, but many changed their minds after the pet food tragedies in the late 2000s. Not that I care what people think, anyway ;-)
So I'm thinking of trying an Adored Beast product, perhaps. Do you have a recommendation of which one? I saw you are using two. I just started Lu on s. boulardii. People seem to use it specifically for digestive/litterbox issues, which Lu doesn't have. She does at times seem to have a rumbly tummy (the FDMB taught me to listen to my cats' tummies, and everybody should become a Tummy Listener
) but I just want to give her some tummy support. Better reinforce her gut biome than give Pepcid/Cerenia to treat a symptom.
And for food, no Fancy Feast. We'll stick with the Nulo pates, low-sodium tuna, chicken puree, and see how that goes.
Best wishes to everyone for a great day! Not too much snow! Kitties staying in the safe, healing zones!
Yesterday
She doesn't have a huge appetite, or at least not for the last hour, but is still eating enough.
@Marje and Gracie I saw your information in Jason & Koha's thread about the suspected issue with some commercial pet foods, and have sent the video to basically everyone I know who has a companion animal. I don't think I'm not going to be giving Lu any more Fancy Feast, although I do have some put aside in my hypo kit, and can find something else that's high carb.
Thank you for sharing this info. I had no idea, and very much want to know about stuff like this. It reminds me of when I started giving my cats a raw diet in 1998, because of my cat Mog developing crystals in his urine. The vet's proposed solution, to give him a vet diet that would make him want to drink more, seemed like two wrongs not making a right. I wanted to find out why he was having that problem in the first place. As soon as I switched to a raw diet, he never had crystals again. People thought I was very eccentric to be doing this, at the time, but many changed their minds after the pet food tragedies in the late 2000s. Not that I care what people think, anyway ;-)
So I'm thinking of trying an Adored Beast product, perhaps. Do you have a recommendation of which one? I saw you are using two. I just started Lu on s. boulardii. People seem to use it specifically for digestive/litterbox issues, which Lu doesn't have. She does at times seem to have a rumbly tummy (the FDMB taught me to listen to my cats' tummies, and everybody should become a Tummy Listener
) but I just want to give her some tummy support. Better reinforce her gut biome than give Pepcid/Cerenia to treat a symptom. And for food, no Fancy Feast. We'll stick with the Nulo pates, low-sodium tuna, chicken puree, and see how that goes.
Best wishes to everyone for a great day! Not too much snow! Kitties staying in the safe, healing zones!
Yesterday
It's great, I love it, even though some weeks are very busy, especially since they are much less interested in learning to drive than in playing music!
Aren't you glad you didn't stick with the 1.5 units. 
). Anyway, I use a different vet now, also at a clinic believing in raw. I've had three cats in a row get SCL, two were on raw for 3 years before they got it. The latter one not as long, but I adopted her then found out she had IBD, so SCL not so surprising. But thankfully in remission now.