OLM Catnip Cottage
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We took in a Civvie at the Catnip Cottage. She was found as a stray, and the family that found her cannot properly care for her. The records from her microchip were many years out of date, and Home Again could not find her contacts to let them know she was found. We reported her found to them in case they get any calls on her, and then the people who found her surrendered her to our vet, who has turned her over to us at the Catnip Cottage.
Her name is Cocoa, a senior blind Siamese. I took her home to the Catnip Cottage last night. We ran bloodwork on her. She is FIV and FeLv negative. She has kidney disease. Her kidney numbers were VERY high. This is the most probably cause to her high blood pressure, which caused her detached retina's and resultant blindness. She also has a slight heart murmer, probably from her illness, again the kidneys.
Cocoa is a very sweet and talkative girl with a good appetite. She has old hematoma's at the base of her ears that has caused a thickening there and gives her ears an adorable Scottish Fold appearance. She is a lovely seal-point long-haired Meezer. She's learning her way around my house, investigating and trying to memorize and discover where things are.
The vet did start her on Enalapril for her blood pressure.
My question is that I do not want to do the standard kidney prescription dry-food diet vets seem to always recommend. What kidney-friendly foods do you all recommend?
I use Taste of the Wild dry for my cats who consume dry food, which is a very good quality low-carb dry food. I feed the rest of the cats either 9-lives canned or Friskies canned minced varieties.
Her name is Cocoa, a senior blind Siamese. I took her home to the Catnip Cottage last night. We ran bloodwork on her. She is FIV and FeLv negative. She has kidney disease. Her kidney numbers were VERY high. This is the most probably cause to her high blood pressure, which caused her detached retina's and resultant blindness. She also has a slight heart murmer, probably from her illness, again the kidneys.
Cocoa is a very sweet and talkative girl with a good appetite. She has old hematoma's at the base of her ears that has caused a thickening there and gives her ears an adorable Scottish Fold appearance. She is a lovely seal-point long-haired Meezer. She's learning her way around my house, investigating and trying to memorize and discover where things are.
The vet did start her on Enalapril for her blood pressure.
My question is that I do not want to do the standard kidney prescription dry-food diet vets seem to always recommend. What kidney-friendly foods do you all recommend?
I use Taste of the Wild dry for my cats who consume dry food, which is a very good quality low-carb dry food. I feed the rest of the cats either 9-lives canned or Friskies canned minced varieties.
