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| Dry food for male cats | |
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| Topic Started: Sep 2 2010, 06:39 AM (129 Views) | |
| Daniel | Sep 2 2010, 06:39 AM Post #1 |
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20 years ago, when we took our new kitten to the vet, the vet told us no dry food of any kind - not even the packaged moist food. Canned food, he didn't care. Urinary tract infection was a problem for male cats and as a kid, I did have a cat who suffered that. Well, our cat had passed away since then after living a healthy 19years. Now my son has acquired a new kitten also male. The vet says to give him dry food only at night to clean his teeth. Did anything change or improve with dry food? Is Urinary tract infection still a problem with male cats and dry food? Thanks in advance. |
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| Deleted User | Sep 2 2010, 06:47 AM Post #2 |
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That's interesting. We have relied on a book called something like "The Organic cat" and they recommend only dry food! |
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| Liz | Sep 2 2010, 07:33 AM Post #3 |
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I feed Cricket both wet and dry cat food. When Comet was alive, he had difficulty digesting some types of dry food and the vet suggested that I obtain various sample packages of the higher end dry cat food to try out. I found a brand that worked for both Cricket and Comet. Sadly we lost Comet at age 8 in February of 2009 due to renal failure which is a quite common ailment in male cats and was not due to either the dry or the wet food. Cricket is alive and well and thriving at 13 years of age so the dry food has had no detrimental affect on him. |
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| Alli | Sep 2 2010, 12:59 PM Post #4 |
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My cat was 17 when Smudgie passed away. He very rarely ate dry food it had to be wet canned food or once in a while as a treat some camnned white tuna... Now Lucy the cat i have now she totally refuses wet food turns her nose won't go near it. I feed her dry and she's quite content.. I do believe they have improved the quality of pet food. Though with that fiasco with IAMS a couple of years ago I won't purchase that brand.... |
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| FuzzyO | Sep 2 2010, 02:47 PM Post #5 |
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Cats tend to get most of their hydration from food rather than from drinking water so because of the risk of a urinary blockage we often hear that male cats, more prone to this blockage than females, should be fed wet food. You can of course add broth or water to dry food. Good quaity food will have a low magnesium content "Because their urine is so concentrated cats sometimes form stones or crystals in their bladder. Sometimes these stones will pass from the bladder down through the ureters and into the cat's urethra where it gets stuck and causes a blockage. Male cats have a very narrow urethra and so they are more commonly afflicted with this problem than female cats, but female cats can have this problem as well. " http://www.aboutcatsonline.com/articles/felineutd.html |
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| Deleted User | Sep 2 2010, 03:45 PM Post #6 |
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These days, vets don't seem to insist that dry food is bad for male cats. Indeed, my Zeke, like Alli's Lucy, simply will not eat canned cat food; the vet says that is fine, so long as he is doing well on it. And Zeke does drink quite a bit of water. I think the higher end pet food has improved a lot in the past 20 years. nainai |
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| angora | Sep 3 2010, 02:48 AM Post #7 |
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How is Zeke anyway, nainai? |
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| Daniel | Sep 6 2010, 11:55 AM Post #8 |
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Thanks, everybody. We are sticking to the canned food. I don't want to risk the urinary tract infection even if the food has improved. We never had dental problems with our other cat before, so I don't know if this will be a real concern. |
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| Kahu | Sep 6 2010, 12:39 PM Post #9 |
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I'm not a cat person ..... I much prefer dogs ....... However, I have noticed a couple of neighbourhood drinking from my pond just a moment ago ...... before I helped them along the way and over the fence! 023 |
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| Deleted User | Sep 7 2010, 09:03 AM Post #10 |
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Thanks for asking, angora. Zeke just fine. Still living with my daughter and her two elderly cats - and her two adult sons, of course. Really, he is as happy as a clam - so much more exciting for him there! It is good for the older cats cats too. Funny story: the other evening, Zeke and O had been playing hard for 45 min straight. Finally, O flopped down, hissed at Zeke when he persisted, sort of: "Enough already. Can't you see I'm exhausted?". I hope to find a place in town that will allow a cat, not so easy to do. Though likely Z will find it pretty tame just having me! nainai |
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| awake | Sep 29 2010, 02:06 PM Post #11 |
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I am an animal lover I even feel sorry for the brown eyed cows happy they may be now chewing ther cud tomarrow they die. I often wonder if they knew what was in store would they get the heart burn ? I look after a doz. outside and have four inside. All fed with dry food with clean wotter on the side. Some miss-spelling is done with chuckles. The biggest problem cats have are people. Bated rat poison, pellet guns which is no. 1 on my list. I've seen a lot like cats with tail's cut off only to die in pain later or with pellets that missed their mark ending with the same results. Cat's only eat so much not like a dog, mice and other rodents. Birds, a few if the can catch them and they eat bones and beaks and save fore a few feathers you wouldn't know there was a bird there. A few laps of water didn't lower your pond did it ? :roflol:: stay :INhousebluefan02HL.gif: |
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