Anybody know roughly food allergies surrounded by cats?
My cat has been scratching her ears/neck and shaking her team leader, I took her to the vet and she said that she is allergic to the food I have her on.
I have her on Wellness, the vet recommends Royal Canin and Eukenuba and other "vet recommended" brands.
I don't trust her push for, is there any bettter brands that I can try.could this be it.
p.s. I refuse to feed the vet recommended brands because specifically who puts vets through there "pet nutrition" courses. They are very biased and contain nought but poor ingredients like meat by-products.
My cat also has/had food allergies. We put her on the vet-recommended food (c/d, I believe). We mix that with some canned food. I don't remember the brand right very soon, I think it's Natural Balance. She still gets some flare ups now and later but it's much better than it was.
Good for you. Vets knowledge roughly speaking nutrition lacks in too many cases
Wellness is grain free so you enjoy eliminated most of the allergens. The net thing to do would be to try and do away with certain meats or fish. Try no chicken then no beef etc.
(Hope you are feed the canned kind)
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I think I would trust a vets familiarity in nutrition (someone who went through years of education focused on animal health) since someone with just personal experience.. but thats just me.
Are you certain its not ear mites? Or maybe wax build up bugging them?
My old cat was alergic to milk.
Answers: I sure do. Oh, I'm not an expert exactly but I enjoy a kitty who has a problem with grains.
Food allergies are rather common. It's possible your cat's problem is something else but it's very easy to do food trials so you can rule that out.
It could be a unique ingredient in the Wellness (carageenan comes to mind) or it could be the protein source. If you're feeding one of those that contains fish, that could very very well be it.
If you are using one of their fishy ones, and if you really prefer to stick with the Wellness brand, then basically try their turkey or chicken. Beef..not so much. I'm not a big fan of beef for cat food.
If you eliminate the fish but the problem still exists, then it's any something in that food or it's the protein source. So at this point you would need to try other brands.
Stick with chicken or turkey from another queue. If you're still seeing issues, then you can probably point to the protein source as the problem.
So now you go near a novel protein such as venison.
I highly suggest this stepped approach because it'll really backing you pinpoint the issue. If you just switch from the Wellness to a different brand with a novel protein, you won't know where on earth the problem was. But if you first eliminate fish (if there's any contained by the food), and then eliminate the brand, and then stamp out the protein source, you should be able to get a good button on the problem.
As for which foods to try, I would stick with a grainless one. Choose any from this list. What to feed:
http://www.catinfo.org/commercialcannedf...
The ones that volunteer novel proteins are B.G. from Merrick, Natural Balance, Nature's Variety and Evo. Probably others but these are coming to mind first.
I have a cat who had fixed itches, and she actually has a mite allergy. She is on Revolution year round, and that takes precision of the problem. Did the vet culture her ears? A cat can have a yeast infection in their ears, and it can produce those same symptoms. Most (not all, but most) food allergies are really due to the corn within the food, and Wellness does not have any. Royal Canin is high in corn, and Eukenuba is full of by-products, so surely you don't want to step down to them from Wellness. I'd rule out the mites and a yeast infection first, and after switch to something like Natural Balance Duck and Pea before I'd do the by-product laden foods. If you nurture canned, EVO makes a venison one, and Natural Instincts has some rabbit and pheasant foods that are a correct alternative protein source.
I have a cat who's allergic to corn - so that eliminates all the vet recommended diets. Why they can't come out beside a prescription diet that isn't all corn and by-products is something I do not understand.
i work at a vet and foor allergic cats should be on Euk. Lamb and Barely or Hills Feline Z/D which both can singular be bought at a vet with prescription
