Hello,
I have two British Short Hair cats, Elsa & Casper, Elsa is 3 years old has had a history of diarrhea, after months of vet visits and endless tests, the diarrhea was constant and getting both her and me down, with vets not being able to shed any light on it.
After some reading and research, I decided to once again try and switch her to a raw diet.... (I'd tried in the past with Natural Instinct - but failed). I decided to try 'Purform' and the day after the first solid stool in months! It was a godsend, cured her! The problem was that she would only eat the rabbit variants of the food which either left me with plain rabbit and ground bone and rabbit with ox heart. I have tried calling her bluff and only giving her different variants but when she doesn't eat for 1,2 days alarm bells go ringing and I give her the rabbit, I've tried mixing in all sorts of ratios, if she even gets a wiff of anything else mixed in she leaves the lot. You name it I've tried it.
I know she likes venison but it's a bit of a pain getting hold of it - that was the only variant from Natural Instinct she would eat - but they discontinued it.
Anyway... months of perfect solid stools but the last few days she has started to get soft stools and my worry is because she has been only having rabbit she has started to develop an allergy to it, like with previous food. She is a house cat and from past experience, I am pretty certain this is again food-related. I am pulling my hair out trying to find an alternative, I am more than prepared to make my own if I HAVE to but ideally I could buy ready-made complete raw which I can give her, because I am not clued up enough to be confident I am giving them everything they need.
Does anyone else use another brand that offers good quality at a decent enough price ideally no more expensive than Purform because it's bad enough as it is for two cats. I have come across kiezebrink but none of them seem to be complete? I am more than happy to get that but as long as I know what else to give them to make sure they are getting everything they need (that's the main worry for me, I am not educated enough in what they actually need as a full balanced diet, Purform said their tubs are complete and do not require anything else, So I took their word for it.
Thanks for anyone that helps I am desperate.
I have two British Short Hair cats, Elsa & Casper, Elsa is 3 years old has had a history of diarrhea, after months of vet visits and endless tests, the diarrhea was constant and getting both her and me down, with vets not being able to shed any light on it.
After some reading and research, I decided to once again try and switch her to a raw diet.... (I'd tried in the past with Natural Instinct - but failed). I decided to try 'Purform' and the day after the first solid stool in months! It was a godsend, cured her! The problem was that she would only eat the rabbit variants of the food which either left me with plain rabbit and ground bone and rabbit with ox heart. I have tried calling her bluff and only giving her different variants but when she doesn't eat for 1,2 days alarm bells go ringing and I give her the rabbit, I've tried mixing in all sorts of ratios, if she even gets a wiff of anything else mixed in she leaves the lot. You name it I've tried it.
I know she likes venison but it's a bit of a pain getting hold of it - that was the only variant from Natural Instinct she would eat - but they discontinued it.
Anyway... months of perfect solid stools but the last few days she has started to get soft stools and my worry is because she has been only having rabbit she has started to develop an allergy to it, like with previous food. She is a house cat and from past experience, I am pretty certain this is again food-related. I am pulling my hair out trying to find an alternative, I am more than prepared to make my own if I HAVE to but ideally I could buy ready-made complete raw which I can give her, because I am not clued up enough to be confident I am giving them everything they need.
Does anyone else use another brand that offers good quality at a decent enough price ideally no more expensive than Purform because it's bad enough as it is for two cats. I have come across kiezebrink but none of them seem to be complete? I am more than happy to get that but as long as I know what else to give them to make sure they are getting everything they need (that's the main worry for me, I am not educated enough in what they actually need as a full balanced diet, Purform said their tubs are complete and do not require anything else, So I took their word for it.
Thanks for anyone that helps I am desperate.