Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Tamara, you are right about the Pill Pockets it does not work for all cats but if it does it is easy! The strays I was feeding would not take them but a little ball of ham, liverwurst, or anything sort of smellythey wolfed up!
Chris
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of tamara stickler
Sent: Thursday, June 23, 2005 3:51 PM
To: felvtalk@felineleukemia.org
Subject: [Norton AntiSpam] Re: Opinions wanted on Royal Canin v. Wellness please
Mari,
For the record, Coebeio isn't Felv+, I don't know if that makes a difference, but it might, so I thought you should know.
Ok, red dyes. That finding was just by trial and error. It finally occured to me that when I feed her something with red dye in it...she'd break out around the face and neck & start vomitting....not right away...but within several hours...or a day. I tested that ...and I'm now very certain that that as well as the salmon, shrimp & crab are all contributing factors to her break-outs. NOT that she doesn't have them anymore...because she does..but they are less frequent.
Now I only feed her chemical free, human grade, no preservative, no antibotic added, free ranged-meat contained foods. It seems to be helping somewhat.
As for canned food, Solid Gold seems the most palitable and best quality, healthiest, for Coebeio. They have a website where you can order directly: http://www.solidgoldhealth.com/
As for the allergies....My vet is still trying to help me to figure it all out as well. Getting rid of the dyes in the food helped. Getting rid of corn in the food helped. Not burning scented candles, not using deoterizors in the carpet ...helped....trying to limit stress has helped. But yes, she still gets breakouts...from time to time, and I just can't figure out why. What makes it worse is I haven't been able to get her to the vet in ..oh, three years or so. While she is an indoor cat, when she doesn't want to be caught...she can't be caught. You can't even get close enough to scruff her. I picked her up off the street as an adult, and the only reason I was able to then...is because she came willingly when I told her to get in the car.
One thing I will mention tho...not to upset you, but just to keep an eye out for...if your cat is frequently going off food that he would eat for a few days....Is he urinating more as well? Is he drinking more? When is the last time you had blood work done? (My Quintapus started that...progressively "picky" eating....turned out his kidneys had started to fail.)
Oh, and with all due respect to Chris, yes try the pill pockets (but they cost about $4-5 a pouch), but not one of my animals, or my extended family's animals will touch them. I used to hide pills in oyster meat, a little bit of tuna or white fish...scallops & sardines (rinse the salt) make a nice disguise...or even spam-(but only use a little bit spam has a LOT of salt).
Good luck.
T
Mari Kolbe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:T:
Very interesting - how did you ascertain that it was the red dyes? I have long suspected that it was the dyes in the various foods that have caused many of mine to vomit their food so I have been not feeding anything that obviously has colored kibble in it. Are all the dyes marked as "Red Dye #xx" or are some of them disguised as other chemical names?
How do Coebeio's allergies manifest themselves? We currently have a four year old cerebellar hypoplasia cat who is a manx mix totally blind epileptic (his identical sister is totally blind and deaf). He was fine up until about a year ago and then started digging around his face and neck - literally raw. We at first thought earmites and had him checked. All parasites, fleas, earmites - negative. His vet says food allergies and he has had a series of depo medrol injections which did nothing. Vet has had him on several of the different single source protein foods - no change. Currently he is on Royal Canins special allergy dry food and we are not seeing any change.
We have to feed him canned food as that is the only way to get his phenobarbitol into him for his seizures and we tried several different allergy canned foods. He will eat them a couple of days and then just stop eating - ANYTHING so we have gone back to canned cr** food to mix his meds in which I know is defeating the purpose. Any ideas on canned food that might be better for him that he will eat would be appreciated. He has to have the canned food for meds because while he only weighs 4#, being blind makes him totally freak if you try to administer meds to him any other way. And once he starts to panic, it brings on a seizure. (Little stinker won't eat the Eagle Pack canned and our Petco's quit carrying the Solid Gold which he would eat a few months ago.......)
Thanks again, T, for your input.
/mari
On 6/22/05, tamara stickler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Mari,
I feed Coebeio the hairball formula. She has horrible allergies, but it seems to be easy on her stomach and she likes it. Plus when Quintapus was alive, I bought it because it was low in phosphorous and he had CRF. Coey also eats the chicken, mixed in from time to time to keep her interest.
A lot of cat foods have salmon or shell fish in them and oddly enough, Coebeio is allergic not to the grains, but to red food dye (which like the dyes in lipstick- comes from fish oil), salmon and shell fish.
I also feed high quality cat canned food, such as : Solid Gold, Eagle pack, Merrick.
Hope this helps.
T
Mari Kolbe <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:T:
Which Eagle Pack are you feeding? We have several with allergies and are having trouble finding a food that truly makes a difference. Someone gave me two different dry formula Eagle Pack foods and both had grains in them. Do you feed canned also?
/mari (Spirit Cat)
On 6/21/05, tamara stickler <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:
Kerry,
Personally speaking, my cats did better on Wellness than Royal Canin. They like(d) both tho. I now feed Eagle Pack (because of Coebeio's allergies-she does better on it), BUT, I use other high quality cat foods, Wellness...Royal Canin, Wysong, Newmans, as treats instead of buying the more expensive cat "treats" that are basically just corn and by-products. Besides...two 6lb bags will last you 12 months or more...for say...$20 total...when cat treats are what(?) $2 per pouch and that only lasts about a week.
Just a thought.
T
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