I'm taking my cats off the dry food altogether because of the boys (this is
the first time in my life I've had male cats) - I'm worried about medical
situations just like this.

Hugs,

CatNipped

Thanks.

Thanks. He's pretty happy to be back. He's had fish (tuna) in his diet
before and had no problems. According to my vet he needs constant moisture.
He's tried the high quality food with no fish in it and still had this
happen. My vet says that I need to stick to the Science Diet S/D or else he
says this could very well happen again. As much as I've butted heads with my
vet on the diet (because most vets sell Hills) I guess I'll try it his way
for a while. I'm also going to cook Icarus's food from time to time as well.

On Feb 28, 12:20 pm, "Cat Protector" <catprotec...@cox.net> wrote:

Glad he's back.  Another thing to consider...

When my cat had her blockages a few years ago, after going off the
prescription diet, she continued eating a high-quality canned food.
She was fine on that diet for several weeks, but while she was at her
cat sitter's, she ran out of her usual food, so the sitter (with my
permission) gave her another type of high-quality food that she
normally gives her own cats.

She ended right back at the vet's.  Why?  Because the new food had
fish as a main ingredient, and according to the vet, my cat was
probably very sensitive to the magnesium in fish and that sensitivity
manifested itself as high pH urine and crystals again.

So perhaps you should check the ingredients of your food, too.  If it
has fish in it, be doubly careful, as Icarus may also be sensitive,
and that would help explain this recurrence!

My kitty Max just went through the surgery for this. It is not pretty.
My veterinarian had prescribed Hills C/D and he still continued to
have problems. Because of the very good advice on this board, I
switched my cats to canned food. They no longer get any hard food.

I think vets are thinking about all of this from a very scientific
point of view. The cat food industry has probably spent millions of
dollars in research as well. Certainly, some dry foods have made some
progress over all these years.

In the past I had not even considered feeding my cats anything but a
high grade dry food. So many vets recommend dry food as well. The
thing that really convinced me though... I hope this helps... Before
Max had to go have the surgery done, when he had come from the vets on
an occassion, he was peeing a lot in the litter box on the day he came
home. The very next day I noticed a lot less urine in the litter box
as he was back on the hard food at that time. He developed problems
again within a week or two, and then had to go back for the surgery.

Long story short, read those good articles that some of folks sent you
on this thread. Dry food dehydrates our cats. It makes sense... What
do you think would happen if we humans ate food of a similar
consistency? We would dehydrate, too... we would have to drink an
awful lot of water to make up for the lack of it in our food.

The transition to get them over to soft food is easier than one might
think - there are several ways to do it pretty easily. I won't go into
that here.

Thanks so much, I hope you get to see this. I don't mean to offend. I
am just saying that sometimes it is hard to seperate all the truth
from the lies, so to speak.

Thanks,
Melissa

My kitty Max just went through the surgery for this. It is not pretty.
My veterinarian had prescribed Hills C/D and he still continued to
have problems. Because of the very good advice on this board, I
switched my cats to canned food. They no longer get any hard food.

I think vets are thinking about all of this from a very scientific
point of view. The cat food industry has probably spent millions of
dollars in research as well. Certainly, some dry foods have made some
progress over all these years.

In the past I had not even considered feeding my cats anything but a
high grade dry food. So many vets recommend dry food as well. The
thing that really convinced me though... I hope this helps... Before
Max had to go have the surgery done, when he had come from the vets on
an occassion, he was peeing a lot in the litter box on the day he came
home. The very next day I noticed a lot less urine in the litter box
as he was back on the hard food at that time. He developed problems
again within a week or two, and then had to go back for the surgery.

Long story short, read those good articles that some of folks sent you
on this thread. Dry food dehydrates our cats. It makes sense... What
do you think would happen if we humans ate food of a similar
consistency? We would dehydrate, too... we would have to drink an
awful lot of water to make up for the lack of it in our food.

The transition to get them over to soft food is easier than one might
think - there are several ways to do it pretty easily. I won't go into
that here.

Thanks so much, I hope you get to see this. I don't mean to offend. I
am just saying that sometimes it is hard to seperate all the truth
from the lies, so to speak.

Thanks,
Melissa

Thanks. I'm so happy to have him home now. He does however hate the special
diet the vet has him on and also having to take his pills.