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Is she home? Is she eating OK?
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Tammy
Stanley and Pookey

Good question! Update please
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PHTessie

Gabby is doing very well. She is home. I picked her up Sunday night. She is eating like a pig!
I think she is still not feeling very well. She is extremely lovey dovey. Which she isn't usually.

I'm pissed about the food the vet has me feeding her.
Look at the ingredients:
Brewers rice, whole grain corn, corn gluten meal, soybean meal, animal fat perserved with mixed tocopherois, and animal digest, fish meal, calcium carbonate, potassium.......

Ok I'm sick of looking things up. But there is the start!

Brewer's rice is a lower quality rice product that is missing many of the nutrients found in ground rice and ground brown rice.

Whole Grain Corn: Corn products are commonly used in pet foods as a main protein source. Because corn products are lacking in certain amino acids such as methionine, arginine and taurine, they are not as nutritious as the high quality meats

Corn Gluten Meal: low ash source of protein,While not the best quality source of protein, the use of corn gluten in small amounts offer preventive health benefits for cats.

Soybean meal is the product obtained by grinding the flakes which remain after removal of most of the oil from soybeans by a solvent or mechanical extraction process.

Animal fat is obtained from the tissues of mammals and/or poultry in the commercial process of rendering or extracting.

Animal fat is a byproduct of meat meal processing. The origin of the contributing animals is never known, and the resulting oil is very low in linoleic acid -- an essential fatty acid that is important for skin and coat health.

Soybean meal is a poor quality protein filler.

Animal digest is a cooked-down broth made from unspecified parts of unspecified animals. Any kind of animal can be included: goats, pigs, horses, rats, etc. The animals can be obtained from any source, so there is no control over quality or contamination.

Fish meal is made from unspecified types of fish.

(look something good amazing!)Calcium carbonate is a mineral that is true to its name which contains a minimum of 38% calcium. The calcium in bone provides structural integrity to the skeleton and also contributes to the maintenance of proper blood calcium levels through ongoing resorption and deposition.
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Jaime owned by
Mya the dog
and the cats:Crash, Moxie, Gabby and sometimes Tucker

Jaime,

Is this a special diet food? Did the vet say why he/she wanted her to eat it?
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ellen
gracie, voodoo, Puss 'n Boots.... & Willow!

>>Jaime,
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>>Is this a special diet food? Did the vet say why he/she wanted her to eat it?
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>>ellen
>>gracie, voodoo, Puss 'n Boots.... & Willow!

Hi Ellen,
Yes it is suppose to help with Kidney Functions. It's Purina Veternary diets NF.

Who is Willow?
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Jaime owned by
Mya the dog
and the cats:Crash, Moxie, Gabby and sometimes Tucker

Yes it is suppose to help with Kidney Functions.

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Short term or long term?

I think short term, I wouldn't worry. If it helps her kidneys and she eats it, good for her.

If it is long term, you may want to see what other foods out there are an option. Other brands make prescription foods.
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Tammy
Stanley and Pookey

I think I am not going to worry about it. For now I will feed her that crappy food. Once the bag is gone. Than I'll slowly switch her back to the other food. I really think it's a toxin or a virus she got. Mya is at the vet's now. She had bloody pooh. She is there until at least tomorrow afternoon. I'm starting to hate living here. I feel like if I was back home none of them would be sick.
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Jaime owned by
Mya the dog
and the cats:Crash, Moxie, Gabby and sometimes Tucker

Who is Willow?

Willow has been here about 18 months. He was trapped at work by a friend and found to be a "friendly feral". They wanted to give him to a local humane society to adopt out, but there was no place to put him and his ears were really, really bloody from a bad case of earmites. So we agreed to keep him until his ears healed. Well, somehow, we ended up keeping him. Go figure! He likes to chase the other cats, which definitely irritates them, but he is adorable. He howls when we take showers and when he wants us to play with him. How could you not love that?

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ellen
gracie, voodoo, Puss 'n Boots.... & Willow!

He is adorable. Err I mean handsome. He looks like my aunt's triplets. She found a stray cat a couple summers ago. That gave birth to 2 black females and 3 black males. The females she was able to find homes for, no one wanted the black males. So she ended up keeping them. We refer to them as the triplets. She also has to older male cats.
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Jaime owned by
Mya the dog
and the cats:Crash, Moxie, Gabby and sometimes Tucker

Jamie, you NEED to find out WHAT is causing Gabby's CRF. IT it is just a wearing our of her kidneys (happens to a lot of cats after age 10) then see what her numbers are. IF her BUN is high - like 70 THEN she NEEDS a low protein low phospherous food to baby them along.

My Missy is in the same shape. Her BUN is 70 but her creatnine is only 2.3. MY vet is angry at me so won't speak to me and I don't know what is going on with her. She is also anemic.

HERE is a link to dry and canned foods cats with CRF can have (meat is bad as it is too high in protein).

http://webpages.charter.net/katkarma/dry.htm

Here is wishing us BOTH luck - Missy just won't eat!
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Heidi - mom
Kotton - LOVING Ice-blue-eyed Siamese girl
Ben - Houdini of a Spotted Tabby boy
Missy - Tiny courageous Silver-Beige/white Kitty girl
Panther - Young Black "Master of Da Bird" boy

3 SPECIAL Angels

Minnie -CA LICO Saint of a Kitty girl
Schatzi- LOVINGEST EVER Tuxedo Standard Poodle Boy
Corkie - BEST EVER - cat - & LOVE OF MY LIFE

But Heidi,
Gabby is only three years old (same age as Ben). I think her BUN was normal it was the creatnine that was eveluated slightly to 2.59 or was it 2.29 I can't remember.

>>Jamie, you NEED to find out WHAT is causing Gabby's CRF. IT it is just a wearing our of her kidneys (happens to a lot of cats after age 10) then see what her numbers are. IF her BUN is high - like 70 THEN she NEEDS a low protein low phospherous food to baby them along.
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>>My Missy is in the same shape. Her BUN is 70 but her creatnine is only 2.3. MY vet is angry at me so won't speak to me and I don't know what is going on with her. She is also anemic.
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>>HERE is a link to dry and canned foods cats with CRF can have (meat is bad as it is too high in protein).
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>>http://webpages.charter.net/katkarma/dry.htm
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>>Here is wishing us BOTH luck - Missy just won't eat!
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>>Heidi - mom
>>Kotton - LOVING Ice-blue-eyed Siamese girl
>>Ben - Houdini of a Spotted Tabby boy
>>Missy - Tiny courageous Silver-Beige/white Kitty girl
>>Panther - Young Black "Master of Da Bird" boy
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>>3 SPECIAL Angels
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>>Minnie -CA LICO Saint of a Kitty girl
>>Schatzi- LOVINGEST EVER Tuxedo Standard Poodle Boy
>>Corkie - BEST EVER - cat - & LOVE OF MY LIFE
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Jaime owned by
Mya the dog
and the cats:Crash, Moxie, Gabby and sometimes Tucker