The home cooked meals may be your answer. The Primal is so ground up I haven't
found a bone...........just very dense cubes. Google Primal and other raw
(BARF) sites. Dixie just happens to like this one big time.
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
----- Original Message -----
From: Beth Noren
To: [email protected]
Sent: Monday, June 11, 2007 10:54 AM
Subject: Re: OT - Phelix...and lessons learned.
Do you know if the raw diets can be cooked, or does that destroy the vitamins
and taurine
and stuff? Or does it make the ground up bone chips too brittle and
dangerous? I have a link from someone for mail-order supplements that can be
added to home-cooked meals, may go that route...
Thank you,
Beth
On 6/11/07, Marylyn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
If you get into the raw diets: Primal runs about $16 for 4 pounds. It
comes in little ounce cubes that you thaw and, given how concentrated it is, is
as cheap or cheaper than some otc canned foods......FF is about 70 cants a can
here (3 ounces). Don't panic yet.
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
----- Original Message -----
From: Beth Noren
To: [email protected]
Sent: Monday, June 11, 2007 12:13 AM
Subject: Re: OT - Phelix...and lessons learned.
Hi Marylyn,
Thank you so much for your suggestions, I really appreciate your
kindness. I haven't
tried an alternative vet yet, but do know of a good one not too far away.
I've got a couple more food trials to do, and then I think we'll see what the
holistic vet has to say. I know someone said before that Hill's Z/D did the
trick for them. I want to try it, but am afraid of Hill's since the tainted
food nightmare. Mine were all on Hill's D/D in February, and I had piles of
throw-up everywhere. The D/D was never recalled, but now I don't totally trust
Hill's. They did eat the recalled Natural Balance Venison & Green Pea in
January, with no noticeable ill effect (or improvement in his itching). The
itching first started around Christmas, and it's all up on his head, so I don't
think it's flea allergies, but maybe. I did just start them back on Revolution
(thank you again for the help with that Kelley S. and MC!) so we'll see. These
darn food trials just take soooooooo long. And I'm afraid the ultimate answer
is going to be home-cooking mail-order rabbit or some such for five kitties.
Yikes! I'll post if (when! positive thinking) I find something that works.
Funny, other than two fevers early on, my FeLv kitty has been the healthiest
one of the bunch. Way more worries and vet bills (allergies, broken bone, ear
infection, tumorish-looking fat deposit) for the virus-free bunch. Ya never
know...
Thank you again for your help,
Beth
On 6/10/07, Marylyn <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:
Have you tried a holistic/alternative vet? Or AC's? You would be
surprised what a cat will tell an AC it trusts. There are volunteer groups
(they tell me) on the internet. Dixie has been able to tell me that she was
spayed and certainly didn't need spaying again, even if the vets couldn't find
the scar (hormone tests proved her right), when she has a flea (even one or two
causes hot spots), if she needed to go to the vet after the pet food scar (long
story) etc.
I've been off computer and really don't know what all you have tried
but I know of two avs that are great.
For some reason I have to believe you need to try Just Born or some
other colostrum containing supplement for your little friend. That may help
and I can't believe that mother's milk would hurt.
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
----- Original Message -----
From: Beth Noren
To: [email protected]
Sent: Sunday, June 10, 2007 12:47 PM
Subject: Re: OT - Phelix...and lessons learned.
Hi Tad,
I agree, rescuing a declawed shelter cat is the perfect solution for
those that
"must" have a declawed cat. Unfortunately, I haven't had much luck
suggesting this
to people yet, (even when I tell them how much money they can save)
as they all
seem to want itty-bitty kittens. In my case, I WANT the claws, I am
just considering a possible declaw in the distant future if I can't figure out
what is making his head itch so bad that he kicks it open...
Beth
On 6/10/07, Tad Burnett <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:
`I guess the point is that its a great way to keep the piece...
Nobody can get upset if you tell people you rescued your declawed
cat
from a shelter already declawed...
Tad
Kelley Saveika wrote:
> On 6/10/07, Tad Burnett < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> There was an 18 year old siamese is a county shelter that I was
>> looking at
>> last night.. Looking through the list of about 30 cats that they
had I
>> noticed
>> that they also had 2 other siamese as well as all the cats seemed
>> like they
>> would make great pets...
>> Then I noticed that about one in four were declawed !!!
>> If you want a declawed cat there are plenty of great kitties
just dying
>> waiting
>> to be adopted and already declawed...
>> Tad
>
>
> 1 in 4 is about the national average for declawed cats. So this
> statistic makes sense to me.
