Critter Mom
Member Since 2014
Neither would I. Prescription foods overall have done my cats more harm than good.
Case in point: a couple of months ago I was quite horrified to hear the words of a vet nurse at our practice singing the praises of Hill's foods; she was raving about how much better their products were than regular commercial foods because "the quality of the ingredients in Hill's foods is so much better quality than in [regular cat foods]." In other respects I have a great deal of time for the vet nurse in question but ye gods! she has drank deep of the Hill's Kool-aid; she was talking about the alleged virtues of their foods with what I can only describe as the zeal of someone indoctrinated into a cult. My civvie had recently been put on Hill's i/d for a major diarrhoea problem but the problem only resolved when I switched her back to a fairly average commercial food. She hit a bump on the way to recovery and again I tried the i/d but it made the diarrhoea worse. I subsequently cut one of the varieties out of her commercial food diet and things improved again. I didn't bother telling the vet nurse about this because I knew that she would not want to hear about it, nor did I try to argue the case for species-appropriate diets nor point her to the work of Drs Pierson and Zoran because, much to my sorrow and frustration, I knew in my heart of hearts I would have been completely wasting my breath.
I have yet to meet a cat who would queue up to eat corn or soy.
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