Mindy & Max
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Just had to share...it sounds like my vets office has become aware of the benefits of feeding canned/raw food only to cats and they are finally promoting it! :mrgreen:
I had both my cats in to the vet for the annual shots and checkups last week. The vet I saw on Wednesday with Max has said before that canned food is better, but she's not really expounded on it. I saw one of the other vets on Saturday with Truman, and this was the vet that was 'helping' me with Max's diabetes last spring. Well, she said she's been hearing about the benefits of wet food only diets (we were talking about Max, even tho I was there with Truman), and Max is a prime example of how much better the canned food is than the dry food. So I think they are actively promoting canned/raw only diets now, which is HUGE.
But then in the next few minutes, she was back to talking about Rx cat food because one of my boys (we have no idea which one) may have a lower urinary tract disease/inflammation/something or other that would require Rx food. But it's a condition that can't be cured and comes and goes, and the watery blood spots we were finding in the bathtub haven't reappeared in a week, so IF one of them has this, we won't figure it out until the next time it happens again. I'd have to look up the Rx food, but I'm pretty sure it isn't low-carb, which means Max can't have it. Soooo...at least they're trying to make steps in the right direction, right?
I was just happy that they are finally 'getting it' with the wet food tho.
AND, I may have convinced the vet to start giving out my phone number to newly diagnosed sugar-cat owners. She said she was just telling another client about Max the other day because their cat had just been diagnosed with diabetes. I told her several times to give the client my number--Max's treatment would have been so much easier if someone had been there in person to help show me what to do. This cat is apparently rather old, tho, so they were deciding whether to help him over the bridge or treat...but still, hopefully my vet will remember to post my info somewhere in case they have new diabetes diagnoses.
I had both my cats in to the vet for the annual shots and checkups last week. The vet I saw on Wednesday with Max has said before that canned food is better, but she's not really expounded on it. I saw one of the other vets on Saturday with Truman, and this was the vet that was 'helping' me with Max's diabetes last spring. Well, she said she's been hearing about the benefits of wet food only diets (we were talking about Max, even tho I was there with Truman), and Max is a prime example of how much better the canned food is than the dry food. So I think they are actively promoting canned/raw only diets now, which is HUGE.
But then in the next few minutes, she was back to talking about Rx cat food because one of my boys (we have no idea which one) may have a lower urinary tract disease/inflammation/something or other that would require Rx food. But it's a condition that can't be cured and comes and goes, and the watery blood spots we were finding in the bathtub haven't reappeared in a week, so IF one of them has this, we won't figure it out until the next time it happens again. I'd have to look up the Rx food, but I'm pretty sure it isn't low-carb, which means Max can't have it. Soooo...at least they're trying to make steps in the right direction, right?
I was just happy that they are finally 'getting it' with the wet food tho.
AND, I may have convinced the vet to start giving out my phone number to newly diagnosed sugar-cat owners. She said she was just telling another client about Max the other day because their cat had just been diagnosed with diabetes. I told her several times to give the client my number--Max's treatment would have been so much easier if someone had been there in person to help show me what to do. This cat is apparently rather old, tho, so they were deciding whether to help him over the bridge or treat...but still, hopefully my vet will remember to post my info somewhere in case they have new diabetes diagnoses.
I will keep that in mind if we have to go that route. I'm not sure what it is about the Rx food that would be necessary IF one of the cats does have the lower urinary tract whatever. The Rx food was the Hill's C/D, all flavors of which are 22% carbs, so definitely a no-no for Max.