If home made isn't an option, there are several commercial raw foods
including Primal Raw that Dixie loved mixed with veggies and my boys
love plain. This is a frozen diet, in cubes that are so easy. There
are dried raw diets available too. A Google search should turn them
up as should conversations with pet store personnel.
On Nov 15, 2009, at 5:04 PM, Tracey Shrout wrote:
Anna, I will give you my personal opinion dealing with severe
diahrrea in 2
of my kitties, one of which is +. After many trips to the vet and
having
many tests for parasites and doses of parasitic medicines,
antibiotics,
trying fortiflora (which does help some), nothing completely
resolved their
issues until I started feeding my cats what I feel is the best food
possible
-- a raw homemade diet of chicken and bones (and organ meat, egg, and
vitamins, etc). Lots of people are totally against feeding raw, but
I have
5 very healthy kitties who've been eating it for almost 2 years now
with
remarkable changes in all of them. No more diahrrea for my kitties,
and most of the time is doesn't even have an odor (no kidding!) I
will
never go back to dry, and I use only a good quality grain-free can
food if
necessary. Cats with diahrrea are naturally going to be dehydrated,
so you
really need to be giving them water WITH their food -- a canned food.
If the homemade diet is not an option for you though, just try a
grain free
diet. Wellness has a good canned one, and there are a few grain-free
dry
foods as well. Most cats merely 'tolerate' grains, and other cats
cannot.
It is not natural for them to eat grains. Oh, and LOTS of cats throw
up. No, it is not good, but it is very common. My cats don't throw
up
anymore (other than hairballs) EVER! I spent tons of time researching
making my own food because of so many health issiues w/my kitties --
now I
don't have any issues at all. If you want to learn more, check out
catnutrition.com and catinfo.com. If you follow the recipes to a
"T'', you
will be amazed! Good luck, and I hope they get better!
Tracey
On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 1:28 PM, Anna Waltman
<[email protected]>wrote:
Dear all,
My positive kitty, Sylvia, has been largely asymptomatic for a
month or two
now, and has only had one bout of immune suppression since testing
positive
(a sore in her mouth, which was taken care of with antibiotics and
went
away
quickly). She is positive on both the snap and IFA tests. My five-
month-old
kitten, Beatrice, was negative as of a month or so prior to being
vaccinated.
I'm feeding both kitties a mix of Wellness Indoor Health, Wellness
Kitten
Health and Evo; Sylvia has actually put on weight (1/2 a pound) and
looks
good. Bea is growing like a weed and very energetic, but has
intermittent
issues with diarrhea and flatulence. The vet thinks it might be
that the
high-quality food is too much for her system, but I'm wondering if
we might
need to re-test her for giardia (which she had when she came to me)
and do
another snap test for FLV. The vet wants to wait at least six
months from
the first FLV snap test before we test her again. What are your
thoughts on
this? I want to test her early and put her on LCTI if she's
positive; if
there's a chance that she's positive but can beat the virus with some
medical help, I'd like to give her that chance. And if she's still
dealing
with giardia (after several rounds of antibiotics she shouldn't
be), I'd
like to get that totally cleared up. Luckily, Sylvia doesn't seem
to have
contracted it. Diarrhea has only been an issue for her when she's
been on
oral antibiotics.
Also: Sylvia periodically throws up immediately after eating. It's
something
she's done since young kittenhood and it happens every other week
or so,
sometimes slightly more often, sometimes way less (she occasionally
goes a
month or two without it happening). Is this vomiting something I
need to be
concerned about? It's only right after she's eaten and doesn't seem
to
affect her appetite, bowel movements or behavior.
These two are my first pets as an adult (I'm only 23 and a first-year
graduate student); I'm doing my best to do right by them. It's a
wonderful
thing to have this forum to turn to when I'm feeling confused about
something. The girls and I both thank you heartily in advance for
your
advice!
All best,
Anna, Sylvia and Beatrice
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