So sorry to hear this. It's a shame you had to learn the hard way of the dangers of feeding an exclusively dry diet to cats. I do hope George is on a wet food diet now, because cats that have had a blockage due to crystals should NEVER be fed any type of dried food.
All dried food is too high in carbohydrates to be a sole diet for cats - they need high meat / protein foods exclusively.
More info here:
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Originally Posted by smurfstran
My vet recently told me that feeding my cat George Go-Cat was killing him! He refuses to eat any kind of wet food...I've tried only giving that to him and had to stop because he went a couple of days without eating the stubborn git. My other cat will eat both, he isn't fussy. But beware of dried food because even though George had plenty to drink aswell he has recently been diagnosed with bladder crystals and had to take a trip to the emergency vet last weekend because he was blocked which can be life threatening...the vet said he would have had about 36 hours to live if not seen to asap!! So now he has to be on an expensive special diet for the rest of his life...bless him!!!  |