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So my oldest cat Sputnik is going to be seventeen next month. About a year and a half ago I ran blood and urine on her. Her kidneys were a little weak and her potassium low, so I put her on a supple...
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CA POPPY wrote:
Ha! She's Edna's twin. Edna will be 17 next month, the longest living cat we've ever had. We got her at five weeks. A year ago Feb we had the new vet do the first bloodwork of Edna's life. Like Sput, liver # was a little off, but that's all. She's had no problems, so we haven't been back. The different thing about Edna is that she has eaten nothing by dry food her entire life. Well, and dry treats. She never would eat canned food or people food. Vet said that's unusual, but okay, as long as she drinks a lot of water, and she does. I notice Edna sleeps about 20 hrs a day. It's okay, we're not that peppy anymore, either. Hope you and we get to keep these old girls awhile longer.
They really are twins.... Sput likes dry food and won't eat enough of anything else to keep her alive. She has, in her dotage, taken to tasting bits of cooked chicken. But the one time I tried canned she dropped weight like a rock. NOT helpful.
So she's getting Royal Canin renal diet kibble (chicken flavor) and she thinks that's the bomb. As is the case with most "medical" diets (they sell it without a prescription, unlike Hills) the ingredients make me cringe but I'll deal with that. Vet says it's fine for the liver issue as well, which in retrospect seems odd. I was too stunned to think when I heard all this... I really thought that she had to have lost some ground on the kidney thing in 18 months.
