***IMPORTANT INFO RE: FOOD AND LITTER***
Bless you for saving this beautiful kitty and how smart is he! Insisting on canned food is essential to a cat's survival and I wish more cats would know this. There are too many cats suffering and dying from the industrial vats of dry food sold in abundance these days with horrible ingredients - made from leftovers at rendering plants (sick but true) and causing a multitude of diseases (CRF, diabetes, liver failure, Hypothyroidism, hypertension, seizures). It hasn't been very long that we have smartened up and started reading the ingredients in OUR food, but still too many are ignoring the labels on our pet foods, and blindly trusting our vets who are selling similar foods. Please everyone, take time to look at the ingredients. Cats are CARNIVORES and cannot be healthy eating "xxx meals", "corn", "rice", etc. They need meat and moisture that can only be found in canned food. Yes it tends to be more expensive if you're buying an FDA approved brand but if you love your furkid(s) you will want to keep them healthy and pain-free and you will have less expensive (devastating) trips to the vet. I speak from experience - I rescued my best friend Beyli from a shelter where he had been for a few years, eating dry food (shelters have no choice because they have to feed cheap, donated food). The damage had already been done.
We have to stop buying what is convenient for us and instead get what is best for our kitties - this also goes for NON-FLUSHABLE CLUMPING LITTER which is causing dehydration in cats (and dogs that like to root around in the box). Logically what it does in the box, it does in their little bodies as soon as it hits bodily fluids. Sadly, companies that make these litters are raking in the money while our kitties are slowing dehydrating - wonder why your cat has been drinking so much water (false comfort that your cat is getting alot of fluids - not realizing it's because of the clumping litter and dry food). My neighbor started having breathing problems and then realized it was because of the large amounts of dust from her cat's clumping litter - it cleared up as soon as she changed to clay litter (there are also clumping litters that are flushable but they are more expensive). It takes me 2.5 minutes to change my cat's litterbox and I use clay litter and a liner. And the box is always clean because I can dispose of feces easily.
I am not a vet and have nothing to gain by people changing to a combo of good quality canned and dry food (good for the teeth) and non-clumping litter - oh wait, yes I do - less people will lose their cats to CRF and other horrible diseases, like I did. Rest in peace Beyli - Mommy misses you.
Please have your pets sterilized as soon as possible to lower, and one day hopefully eliminate, unwanted and abandoned pets. It IS our responsibility. Adopting from a shelter also helps - encouraging breeders just adds to the overpopulation.
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I loved reading: Cat Stories by James Herriot who wrote the All Creatures Great and Small series.
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