Re: Lucy-- refusing raw food now

[Marylyn]

I really believe it would have caused any problems it was going to cause by now.  It is a wonderful food.  Kitty eats it instead of various wet foods most of the time, especially when she thinks I have added supplements to them.  Kitty was diagnosed with cancer almost a year ago and will not take anything the alternative vet or her vet wants her to take.  Forcing her is too traumatic so I am letting her have her was.  By the way, she refused to eat turkey and the wet foods that contained it when it started giving her problems.  I guess she knows what is best for her.   Watch Lucy's  fluid intake if she is not used to dry food just to make sure she is getting enough.  Good luck.    PS  My alternative vet recommends Apple Pectin for diarrhea and my regular vet recommends a pinch of Metamucil (unflavored) or phylum.  It adds bulk and really has helped with other animals, both dogs and cats.                                                               If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures                                                  from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who                                                  will deal likewise with their fellow man.                                                                   St. Francis ----- Original Message ----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: felvtalk@felineleukemia.org Sent: Monday, January 23, 2006 8:03 AM Subject: Re: Lucy-- refusing raw food now Lucy actually does really well with turkey, which is why I picked turkey for her raw diet.  She does not do as well with other meats.  She is not doing badly from the turkey diet either, just decided she is through with it and won't touch it now.   I am glad your cat does so well on EVO.  It looks like that may be all that Lucy will eat that I am willing to feed her right now.  Do you think if it were going to cause diarrhea it would  have done so by now? She had the EVO at about 6 pm, I think-- so 15 hours ago. I just gave her another small handful of it but am afraid to give her more than that right now, but it is is all she will eat besides baby food at the moment.   Thanks, Michelle   In a message dated 1/23/2006 8:58:24 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Several books show turkey is a major allergen for cats.  Kitty, my live in former feral, had diarrhea so bad the vets thought she had major pancreas problems.  I put her on an elimination diet where we gave her only a couple of foods then added to it.  The turkey had to have been the cause but the turkey in EVO is processed differently that the turkey we normally feed cats or that is in cat food.  She eats EVO all the time and has had no problems.  Even her vet was amazed.  She is almost 14 and cats don't usually develop allergies that bad at her age.