Is 'Fancy Feast' reasonable?  For a cat that is not blocked and never has
been?

After advice from here, we are converting Daisy (our rescue kitty) to wet
and she's taking well to it.  I need to get more cans and while i know now
to took for grain-free, am not all that sure of all the details.  A web page
was posted and I read it, but it's still not clear.  I just know Daisy likes
fancy feast and have not yet tried others.  The size of the meal of the
fancy feast is just right.

Yea, I would normally agree but I don't buy what the vet said. She said that
the infection started first and then the crystals developed. In a cat this
young (not quite 4) that still doesn't explain what caused an infection. She
told me he needs to be on exclusively prescription food and should be
getting 2 5-oz. cans a day. That's excessive. I have him on an all natural
wet food now and he only wants maximum 1/2 a can at a meal (2 a day). The
vet also blamed his blockage on the fact that he's gained a little weight in
the last year. My husband passed away last April and there are only 1 set of
eyes now to referee meal times and keep him out of everyone else's bowl.
I've improved my methods (Boots eats in a closed bathroom, Isabelle eats in
a locked dog crate, Diego eats where ever the other two aren't) but he
hasn't yet lost the weight he put on when I was distracted.

I wonder if some of Diego's problems didn't start when the dh died. He was
my husbands cat almost exclusively. He rarely came to me for attention. He
was quite the sad sack for a long time after the dh passed and spent much of
his time sleeping on his side of the bed. Maybe stress played a role. Maybe
he wasn't drinking as much water. I missed the clues that Diego was the one
with the problem. I didn't notice any increase in trips to the box for him
and attributed the peeing outside the box to my cat, Isabelle, who I know
has kidney problems and who has been known to avoid the box. This meant that
Diego's problems went untreated for months. Hindsight is 20/20 but I really
thought it was Isabelle peeing on the floor. She's already on prescription
food btw and her problem was diagnosed when we had an ultrasound done. At
any rate his problem was worse than it should have been had I known about it
sooner.

He had struvite (sp? too lazy to look it up) crystals. Now as to why? who
knows. Is it a ph issue or just not sufficient fluids in his diet. The vet
refuses to prescribe C/D dry and is pushing for wet only. That makes me
think she suspects a moisture problem more than a ph one.

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