Anyone use Applpaws/Applepaws wet cat food?

[donna255]

Delilah has had a few well more bouts of cystitis, so vet says she must stay on wet food. She has to take Cystitabs Plus(sp) as maintenance.

Now she is 14 and used to Royal Canine 12+ dried food with a wet Sheba pouch in the morning. So no more Royal Canine, I am not happy that Sheba is high enough quality for her. Its rather hard finding wet food for seniors that is really good quality. Strangely Royal Canine do not make a senior wet food.

I noticed Applpaws/Applepaws does one, which seems reasonable quality. So has anyone fed their cat this brand if so how was it?

The vet never said anything about special diet food just feed wet food only.

 

[mediastar]

I am owned by a cat with frequent bouts of cystitis caused by struvite crystals, have they tested her for stones? He has a specialist dried food and a water fountain and he has a specialist wet food, like you wet in the morning dried at night. His issue is his weight, he never looks fat, that's his body=type, very long legs, so he never looks particularly big, however, he got as big as 7.4 kilos, both his wet and dried food manage the weight and the crystals. I would like to use Hills Prescription WD, it has more fibre in than other specialist cat foods. Frankly I worry less about the age related food, more about whether it manages the condition. However, having said that AVA (at Pets at Home) do a good wet food for mature/senior cats and so does Purina with Bifensis (spelling). Of course, they are a little too calorific for the fatso catso in my life, so he only gets those once in a while. I hope you find a way to manage that nasty urinary condition, do ask the vet if there have been any crystals in the urine as that can be deadly. PS on this regime, keeping the weight down and managing the struvite, he hasn't had a hint of cystitis for over a year, hope that doesn't tempt fate!!!!

 

[donna255]

This is the first time she has ever had it. The vet actually thought it could be stress related.

Big Zanzi had to cross the rainbow bridge in January he was 18 and had cancer. Then she had a few teeth out a month later, still kept clawing her mouth and finally found out it was something called Feline Oral Facial Pain Syndrome. Its rare and seems to hit orientals particularly Burmese, which she is. So on pain relief which worked straight away. She had clawed the inside of her mouth to the point of cuts and under her chin too. I actually thought it was the antibiotics which has started it, sometime they can effect the bladder's natural bacteria. He said no.

But now she is on Cystaid Plus one a day, and so far all is well. But I get anxious over small things now. All Peter(vet) said was no more dried food and wet only. I did say about special food and just got wet food.

Many years back I had another girl who had cystitis she was only a year old. She kept getting it every few weeks, the vet(different one), suddenly decided the antibiotic course she gave was not long enough to kill it. So Cleo got a 3 weeks course of tablets. Never ever had cystitis again and was 13 when she had to pass.

Delilah is peeing far more now which I think was the whole idea to keep her flushed out.

The dried food had all these things to help kidney function etc in older cats. So the dumping down to stuff like Sheba had me worried about the quality and effects.

Oh Mediastar believe it or not you can give a cat Latulose, Zanzi had a problem going to the litter(its age thing) and Peter said 1ml a few times a week. Very gentle and I used a oral syringe, Peter said to give to Delilah as she was on lower fibre now too. I have to watch her poo in case its too hard!

 

[mediastar]

Sidney is too runny on low fibre (trying not to be too graphic), so that's why he needs extra the fibre, so far touch wood, he's never been constipated. He was nearly completely blocked with crystals every time he had cystitis, so he got to the vet usually in the nick of time, he would go along all fine then suddenly .... poor little chap! I still have to keep a puppy training pad in the bathroom as he has a habit of peeing in there when he can't be bothered to go outside. He was given a long course of antibiotics too, nightmare! He was 11 in June! Love them to bits, don't we!