Re: [Felvtalk] Homey and her crystals
Forgive me as I have missed the beginning of this email thread. With respect to urinary crystals diet is huge. Every cat that has ever been brought to me with crystals has responded to diet with complete eradication of crystals (make sure you know what type of crystals you're dealing though). Raw diet is the key. If you can't do raw, the high quality canned foods like Fromm, Go, Wellness work quite well. You can still do some dry but it has to be the good stuff - Orijen or Fromm would be my recommendation. I always add some cranberry to it if they'll take it just to avoid UTIs. It takes about four weeks if the crystals are bad and in the meantime you have to make sure they do not become obstructed (that often takes vet strength food or catheter or suprapubic taps. Hope this helps. Jenny On 12/8/11, dlg...@windstream.net dlg...@windstream.net wrote: In the course of conversation with Karen today, I mentoned that Hojey had crystas. She said her cat had same problem and a group Catwell on yahoo had helped her. They suggested Cantharis. You can get it at health food stoes. Her cat had been gven a death sentence and now is alive and healthy. Anybody knw anyting about this? ___ Felvtalk mailing list Felvtalk@felineleukemia.org http://felineleukemia.org/mailman/listinfo/felvtalk_felineleukemia.org ___ Felvtalk mailing list Felvtalk@felineleukemia.org http://felineleukemia.org/mailman/listinfo/felvtalk_felineleukemia.org
Re: [Felvtalk] Homey and her crystals
Homey's crystals are struvite, very few calcte. She geets fitered water in fountains along with e other 6 cats in my house. We have 8 litter boxes tat are scooped out at least 2 times a day. I use a corncob litter because it is biodegradeble, doesn't track more than clay and hadles odors very well. I hadeveryone on Blue Buffalo Duck and sweet potato mixed 1/2 with turkey and sweet potato becauseCasey has troube with the dck, think it is to rich for her (14 years old). The food was dry. Vet now has her on Hill's SD and gave her a shot of Convenia antibiotic to get her started toward healing. He also did Cystocentesis ad sent urine sample off for cultures (aerobic and anaerobic) to determine exactly which bacteria was involved so he can giveherthe right antibiotic. The shot and SD seem to be helping as urine balls in boxes re all close to normal size, This is the 3rd timethis year, that s why he did the cultures.The last time, she refused the SD, bt it had been sitting on the floor of he van onthe way home so was nice and warm. She and others ate it up. I also got some SD dry just in case she decides she does not like the canned. Thought about mixing dry into wet. Where can I get these other foods you menioned? As to cranberry, tried giving her some and only way to get it in her was to spend 20 minutes trying to catch her and rub t on her feet. Then she avoids me for at least 1 hr afterwards. jbero tds.net jb...@tds.net wrote: Forgive me as I have missed the beginning of this email thread. With respect to urinary crystals diet is huge. Every cat that has ever been brought to me with crystals has responded to diet with complete eradication of crystals (make sure you know what type of crystals you're dealing though). Raw diet is the key. If you can't do raw, the high quality canned foods like Fromm, Go, Wellness work quite well. You can still do some dry but it has to be the good stuff - Orijen or Fromm would be my recommendation. I always add some cranberry to it if they'll take it just to avoid UTIs. It takes about four weeks if the crystals are bad and in the meantime you have to make sure they do not become obstructed (that often takes vet strength food or catheter or suprapubic taps. Hope this helps. Jenny On 12/8/11, dlg...@windstream.net dlg...@windstream.net wrote: In the course of conversation with Karen today, I mentoned that Hojey had crystas. She said her cat had same problem and a group Catwell on yahoo had helped her. They suggested Cantharis. You can get it at health food stoes. Her cat had been gven a death sentence and now is alive and healthy. Anybody knw anyting about this? ___ Felvtalk mailing list Felvtalk@felineleukemia.org http://felineleukemia.org/mailman/listinfo/felvtalk_felineleukemia.org ___ Felvtalk mailing list Felvtalk@felineleukemia.org http://felineleukemia.org/mailman/listinfo/felvtalk_felineleukemia.org ___ Felvtalk mailing list Felvtalk@felineleukemia.org http://felineleukemia.org/mailman/listinfo/felvtalk_felineleukemia.org
Re: [Felvtalk] Homey and her crystals
I get hills c/d at any vet I stop into. I live in Los angeles. It has saved my Tweetys life! He eats nothing else. Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile -Original Message- From: dlg...@windstream.net Sender: felvtalk-boun...@felineleukemia.org Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2011 18:39:51 To: felvtalk@felineleukemia.org Reply-To: felvtalk@felineleukemia.org Subject: Re: [Felvtalk] Homey and her crystals Homey's crystals are struvite, very few calcte. She geets fitered water in fountains along with e other 6 cats in my house. We have 8 litter boxes tat are scooped out at least 2 times a day. I use a corncob litter because it is biodegradeble, doesn't track more than clay and hadles odors very well. I hadeveryone on Blue Buffalo Duck and sweet potato mixed 1/2 with turkey and sweet potato becauseCasey has troube with the dck, think it is to rich for her (14 years old). The food was dry. Vet now has her on Hill's SD and gave her a shot of Convenia antibiotic to get her started toward healing. He also did Cystocentesis ad sent urine sample off for cultures (aerobic and anaerobic) to determine exactly which bacteria was involved so he can giveherthe right antibiotic. The shot and SD seem to be helping as urine balls in boxes re all close to normal size, This is the 3rd timethis year, that s why he did the cultures.The last time, she refused the SD, bt it had been sitting on the floor of he van onthe way home so was nice and warm. She and others ate it up. I also got some SD dry just in case she decides she does not like the canned. Thought about mixing dry into wet. Where can I get these other foods you menioned? As to cranberry, tried giving her some and only way to get it in her was to spend 20 minutes trying to catch her and rub t on her feet. Then she avoids me for at least 1 hr afterwards. jbero tds.net jb...@tds.net wrote: Forgive me as I have missed the beginning of this email thread. With respect to urinary crystals diet is huge. Every cat that has ever been brought to me with crystals has responded to diet with complete eradication of crystals (make sure you know what type of crystals you're dealing though). Raw diet is the key. If you can't do raw, the high quality canned foods like Fromm, Go, Wellness work quite well. You can still do some dry but it has to be the good stuff - Orijen or Fromm would be my recommendation. I always add some cranberry to it if they'll take it just to avoid UTIs. It takes about four weeks if the crystals are bad and in the meantime you have to make sure they do not become obstructed (that often takes vet strength food or catheter or suprapubic taps. Hope this helps. Jenny On 12/8/11, dlg...@windstream.net dlg...@windstream.net wrote: In the course of conversation with Karen today, I mentoned that Hojey had crystas. She said her cat had same problem and a group Catwell on yahoo had helped her. They suggested Cantharis. You can get it at health food stoes. Her cat had been gven a death sentence and now is alive and healthy. Anybody knw anyting about this? ___ Felvtalk mailing list Felvtalk@felineleukemia.org http://felineleukemia.org/mailman/listinfo/felvtalk_felineleukemia.org ___ Felvtalk mailing list Felvtalk@felineleukemia.org http://felineleukemia.org/mailman/listinfo/felvtalk_felineleukemia.org ___ Felvtalk mailing list Felvtalk@felineleukemia.org http://felineleukemia.org/mailman/listinfo/felvtalk_felineleukemia.org ___ Felvtalk mailing list Felvtalk@felineleukemia.org http://felineleukemia.org/mailman/listinfo/felvtalk_felineleukemia.org
Re: [Felvtalk] Charlie,Whispy and Bubba Please add to the CLS :(
so sorry for your loss, Sherry On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 10:03 PM, Sherry DeHaan sherryd...@yahoo.com wrote: All three of these wonderful FORMER Sids kids had the joy of having wonderful homes Charlie was a sweet loving gray boy who had a great home with one of our volunteers Marcia who also had Whispy for a short time.Whispy passed today on Marcias birthday:( Charlie passed 2 days ago. Then Bubba,I remember meeting him when I first started volunteering at Sids,a beautiful white boy with one yellow eye and one green eye. Bubba had a loving home with Julie another one of our awesome volunteers for almost 6 years.What a sad week for so many Sherry *We who choose to surround ourselves with lives more temporary* *than our own,* *Live within a fragile circle,easily and often breached.* *Unable to accept its awful gaps.* *We still would have it no other way* ___ Felvtalk mailing list Felvtalk@felineleukemia.org http://felineleukemia.org/mailman/listinfo/felvtalk_felineleukemia.org ___ Felvtalk mailing list Felvtalk@felineleukemia.org http://felineleukemia.org/mailman/listinfo/felvtalk_felineleukemia.org
