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Cats on different foods
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I just brought one of my cats back from a very expensive vet visit. She has a lot of crystals in her urine so she now has to be on RX food, which is annoying and expensive, but whatever if she needs it she needs it. My biggest problem is that my other cat is on regular food but she can smell the other food and wants that more so I have to separate them. Any ideas or is this just the way it is from now on? TIA.
Re: Cats on different foods
When one of my cats had to be on kidney diet, we just switched both cats. Now she is on the crystal food also, and we just switched him, too. He panics if he is separated from her so it would be stressful for them both to eat separately because he would just howl for her.
Also, she can't have treats anymore so neither cat gets them.
Can you just switch both or is it the cost you're worried about? That was the easiest solution for us. My vet said it was fine for our healthy cat to be on the new foods. Otherwise, just separate them and hope they get used to it. GL!
How long does your vet want her on the special food? What kind of food do you feed the other cat?
I recently had a similar situation. I switched them all to Wysong Uretic and increased wet food intake for everyone. (Wet food is really the key to preventing crystals, check out catinfo.org for awesome info on that).
A few months later, I have gone back to a 50/50 mix of the Wysong and their usual Chicken Soup. Cat with issues is better and I wanted to cut the cost a little. Both foods have good ingredients so I'm satisfied with sticking to this, at least for now.
In my house it is practically impossible to feed separately due to a few reasons, so this was the best solution for us.
Congrats on LO 2!
5 cats. 1 baby.
One of ours has crystals but we were told we could keep feeding raw.
I would probably separate them unless the other one became anxious and stopped eating.
We feed our 5 in 2 "seatings" because 2 of the boys make one of our girls nervous. It makes mealtimes less stressful.
5 cats. 1 baby.