Oh dear...I go away for a day or so and it all kicks off!
Is it safe...has she gone away...or is she lurking...finger hovering over the 'CAPS LOCK' button? Chianya, you need to take a chill pill or it won't be a vet that is required.
Anyway, as I started the post, I will add my 2 pennies worth..My cat is overweight at 5kg, with 3.6kg being target weight, taking into account that she is now 8 years old...so middle aged. I found this forum and was amazed at some of the stuff I read about nutrition. This last year my cat has been eating mostly dry GO-KAT with a little felix AGAIL's...mainly down to my own laziness. Is it coincidence that this last year is where she put on the most weight, ie, nothing to do with The GO-KAT carb levels. Well, we shall see.
I decided to change her diet to wet,as recommended on here and up the quality content, so now am feeding her Animonda Carny. She has been on this about 7 days and has taken to it straight away...so I'm lucky there. As a little treat..some nights I add about 20% APPLAWS wet,which I bought with some APPLAWS dry, whilst waiting for the order of Carny to arrive. She really loves the applaws wet..especially the seafood one. However, for the immediate future I will not be giving her anymore of the dry.
So I will report back in a while on any changes. Her weight to date remains the same...5kg, but it's only been a week. Her litter tray seems good, nothing runny and not BONE DRY waste as it used to be...ouch...that gotta hurt
As to vets...I am fortunate that my vets practice is literally across the road, so she goes annually for her innoculation. However, take the last visit two weeks ago and I was in with the vet...and I do not exaggerate..less than 5 mins. In which time he told me she should lose some weight, which he put down to 'middle age spread' and never asked or mentioned diet...then injected the booster and finally a worming tablet.
How much does my vet care about my cat?...£58.06 for 5 mins...That's how much and I have the bill if you would like to see it. He also sells the well known dry food in the shop like many vets. He also has 2 other practices.
Another little story...2 years ago the vet had brought in a temp vet to cover for him and I would see the temp closing the shutters every night. He had 3 dogs of his own which he used to bring to work with him (not sure thats a good idea either) and they would all leave together. One night he must have been called to attend an emergency at the surgery and it was late when he left, maybe 11.30pm. Opposite me is also a newsagents with a grassy alleyway giving access to the rear of the buildings. Quite often the little kids play there in the day...I bet you know where I'm going with this one...the vet proceeded to walk his dogs to the entrance of this alley and then they proceeded to do the natural thing...no. 1's and no. 2's. I seriously could not believe my eyes! He obviously had no intention of clearing any of this up, so I shouted across the road at him and gave him a piece of my mind and he scuttled off hastily!
What's the point of the story...simply that there are good people and not so good people...and the same goes for vets.
I will let you all know how my Kali gets on.
Great site. Thanks for all your comments and info.
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