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Several books show turkey is a major allergen for cats. Kitty, my
live in former feral, had diarrhea so bad the vets thought she had major
pancreas problems. I put her on an elimination diet where we gave her only
a couple of foods then added to it. The turkey had to have been the cause
but the turkey in EVO is processed differently that the turkey we normally feed
cats or that is in cat food. She eats EVO all the time and has had no
problems. Even her vet was amazed. She is almost 14 and cats don't
usually develop allergies that bad at her age.
If you have men who will exclude any of God's
creatures
from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who
will deal likewise with their fellow
man.
St. Francis
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Sent: Monday, January 23, 2006 7:24
AM
Subject: Lucy-- refusing raw food
now
Lucy had loose stool for over 2 months, which was helped by pred but only
went away completely on a raw diet. She then got constipated this week, about
3 or 4 weeks into the raw diet. I gave her olive oil, which helped. But
now she is refusing to eat her turkey diet, raw or cooked. She seems
disgusted by it. I was a little surprised she ate it to begin with, as
she always used to refuse canned food or cooked chicken and only wanted dry
food. But she liked it at first. Now she is sick of it and will not
touch it. Since it is the only thing that controlled her diarrhea, I am a
little worried about her not eating it. I tried not giving her anything else
and she did not eat for almost a day. I finally gave her a little bit of
canned turkey and rice cat food (no other grains, but has some vegetables--
avoiding chicken because she did not do well on it before), and she ate it
yesterday morning, and a little more later in the day. She ate a handful
of EVO dry (no grains, but vegetables) as well and wanted more, but I was
afraid to give it to her. At night she had a normal bowel movement, and
none so far today. So I gave her a little more of the canned food (after
trying futilely to get her to eat her raw diet-- she refused to even look at
it).
My question is this: Do you think that if she were going to get diarrhea
from the canned food and/or the EVO, do you think it would have happened
already? Do you think it is safe to offer her more of it? Any
other suggestions? I already fasted her for a day last week to get rid
of vomiting and she hardly ate day before yesterday because we were battling
over the turkey diet, so I do not really want to just not feed her in the hope
she will give in and eat it. But I also do not want to start another round of
loose stool. Any suggestions or thoughts are welcome.
I started her on nux vomica last night also.
Thanks,
Michelle
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