How long should i leave my cat on wet cat food after a uti?

Courtney

Thanks to some helpers here, I finally got my cat on the right track with getting over uti(s) hes been dealing with for 3 months now. All it took was wet cat food twice a day. How long am I supposed to feed him wet cat food twice a day?



Warner

There is absolutely no reason that you should ever feed dry food. Nutrition since there are so many bad things out there is very important to your cat’s healthContrary to what you may have heard; dry foods are not a great thing to feed a cat. Please read the label on what you are feeding? What are the ingredients? Do you know what they mean? Is the first ingrdiant a muscle meat like chicken or meal or other things? http://www. catinfo. org/#Learn_How_To_Rea…Dry foods are the number 1 cause of diabetes in cats as well as being a huge contributing factor to kidney disease, obesity, crystals, u. t.i’s and a host of other problems. Food allergies are very common when feeding dry foods. Rashes, scabs behind the tail and on the chin are all symptomsThe problems associated with Dry food is that they are loaded with carbohydrates which many cats (carnivores) cannot process them. Also, Most of the moisture a cat needs is suppose to be in the food but inDry, 95% of it is zapped out of dry foods in the processing. Another thing, most use horrible ingredients and dont use a muscle meat as the primary ingredient and use vegetable based protein versus animal. Not good for an animal that has to eat meat to survive. You want to pick a canned food w/o gravy (gravy=carbs) that uses a muscle meat as the first ingredient and doesnt have corn at least in the first 3 ingredients if at all. Fancy feast is a middle grade food with 9lives, friskies whiskas lower grade canned and wellness and merrick upper grade human quality foods. Also, dry food is not proven to be better for teeth. Does a hard pretzel clean your teeth or do pieces of it get stuck? http://www. felinefuture. com/nutrition/bp… Please read about cat nutrition. http://www. newdestiny. us/nutritionbasics… http://www. catinfo. org/feline_obesity. ht… http://maxshouse. com/feline_nutrition. ht…



Beula

Its better if you keep feeding him wet cat food in the case when your cat is prone to get UTI.



Garrett

Glad to hear that your cat is feeling much better now. Given that youve already seen your cats health improve through feeding him wet food, I think that you should keep him on this diet all the time. The link below has lots of information and advice on why its much better and more natural to feed wet food. http://www. catinfo. org/index. htm



Meghan

Although many people rely on dry cat food as a staple for their cats diets, canned cat food is a must for developing strong bones and muscles, while mitigating many potential conditions caused or contributed to by an all-dry cat food diet. Its true that dry cat food is convenient; it doesnt spoil rapidly, and most cats like the "crunch" of eating dry kibbles. However, dry cat food has its definite "downside." Cats who eat a diet of only dry food are losing out on the extra nutrition they can get with canned cat food. Many commercial dry foods are packed with carbohydrate fillers, usually corn, listed as "corn meal," "ground whole corn," "corn gluten," or even more thinly disguised as "maize," "ground yellow maize" or other misleading names. In the wild, a cat will eat only a very small quantity of any grain, namely the stomach contents of mice, rabbits, or birds he catches. Why then, should a pampered household cat eat a diet that is loaded with the one food nutrient he really doesnt need? Although french fries and Twinkies might be tasty treats on occasion, what human would consider living on them day in and day out, much less feed them to their children as a regular diet? Why then, would we do less for our cats? Dry cat food can also contribute or be directly related to certain health conditions: * Feline Diabetes Elizabeth Hodgkins, DVM, does not mince words about the connection between dry cat food and feline diabetes. On her web site at www. yourdiabeticcat. com, she states, "Without the constant feeding of highly processed, high carbohydrate dry foods, better suited to cattle than cats, adult-onset feline diabetes would be a rare disease, if it occured at all." * IBD (Inflammatory Bowel Disease) Dr. Lisa Pierson, DVM, states, "Too often these cats are treated with a high level of steroids and a so-called prescription DRY diet. I feel very strongly that this common therapeutic regimen needs to be re-evaluated. There are an impressive number of anecdotal reports of cats that were terribly ill with IBD exhibiting dramatic improvement when ALL dry food was removed from their diet." * CRF (Chronic Renal Failure) Dr. Lisa Pierson, DVM, states, "It is troubling to think about the role that chronic dehydration plays in feline kidney failure. And remember, cats are chronically dehydrated when they are on a diet of predominantly dry food." * Urinary crystals and cystitus The chances of bladder crystals or bladder inflammation are greatly reduced with a canned or raw food diet, which both give the essential hydration needed for a healthy urinary tract. * Diarrhea Diarrhea and other allergy-related conditions are often caused by corn or wheat fillers in dry cat food. After eliminating other potential medical causes, switching to canned or raw food can make the diarrhea go away almost overnight. * Dehydration Cats on canned food diets or raw food get sufficient water in their food. Cats on dry food alone must be given plenty of water, especially during hot summer months.



Sherry

Well if youre having success with the wet food, why would you want to stop doing it? I mean, if it aint broke, why fix it, right? Perhaps the cost is a factor, though? Maybe you could try giving him some of your RAW meat for 1 meal a day and 1 canned? Anything you eat would be fine (in the meat sense, of course!) but you should try ground mince first - turkey, chicken, pork, beef, lamb...But whatever you do, dont give him COOKED bones, okay??



Frances

Cats are carnivors, meaning they need real meat or fish protein and the moisture thats contained in the protein. High quality Dry food should only be used as a supplement to their diet, not as the main part of their diet