Rayen
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Okay, my sister works in a vet clinic, my mother takes the vets word as the law. My sister has no real training for animal care, in fact, for a living she works mostly in human healthcare (she takes blood mostly) but does mostly small jobs like helping hold animals and taking blood and such. Before, I just followed their line of thinking as well, until my fat cat just wasn't losing weight after being on the vet's 'diet' most of her life. He basically just told me to keep on cutting back her normal dry food until it was obvious she was losing weight, she's 11 years old and just kept gaining weight no matter how little I gave her. So I did my own research and switched her over to Wellness canned food. It's not a giant change or anything, she seems to have lost a bit of weight and has a bit more energy than before, but it's leaps and bounds of difference than 'cut back her dry food until she's eating nothing'.
For the most part, all of the other cats in our family eat a food brand called Medi-cal that is in every single vet I've come across here. Which has been fine for the other cats, and I'm tired of arguing. Now my mother has it in her head that she wants to switch them over to Hill's Prescription Diet because it's 'better'. The bag of food she brought home from has this as ingredients:
Chicken By-Product Meal, Brewers Rice, Corn Gluten Meal, Ground Whole Grain Corn, Powdered Cellulose 10% (source of fiber), Pork Fat (preserved with mixed tocopherols and citric acid), Chicken Liver Flavor, Calcium Sulfate, Soybean Oil, Potassium Chloride, Choline Chloride, Vitamin E Supplement, DL-Methionine, vitamins (L-Ascorbyl-2-Polyphosphate (source of vitamin C), Vitamin E Supplement, Niacin, Thiamine Mononitrate, Vitamin A Supplement, Calcium Pantothenate, Riboflavin, Biotin, Vitamin B12 Supplement, Pyridoxine Hydrochloride, Folic Acid, Vitamin D3 Supplement), Calcium Carbonate, Iodized Salt, Taurine, minerals (Ferrous Sulfate, Zinc Oxide, Copper Sulfate, Manganous Oxide, Calcium Iodate, Sodium Selenite), preserved with Mixed Tocopherols and Citric Acid, Beta-Carotene, Rosemary Extract.
Yayyy for buying cat food that consists primarily of corn.
Basically the consensus in the family is this: I'm crazy. I have no idea what I'm talking about, and because I read several different views that say all the same thing on the internet/books it's all false. It's not like cats are strict carnivores or anything. I'd like to know when a cat in the wild would climb a stalk of corn and munch down.
Again, what they're eating now isn't really any better, but the Prescription Diet stuff is much more expensive. She's convinced that because it's more expensive that it's a better quality food. She doesn't read ingredients, she doesn't consider anything about the food at all but the fact that it's from the vet and that the vet is giving her the best quality food there is.
Does anyone know how to convince her to at least not change them over to the new food? I've given up the war on trying to change her or my sister's mind that the food they feed now isn't all that great either, but I would really like to change her mind about this. Her whole point in switching them over is that they appear to like it better. I'm sure if I whipped out some Iams or Purina food they'd be all over it too, lower quality foods tend to be stuffed with animal fat to make it taste better, but that doesn't mean we'd ever feed them Iams or Purina.
For the most part, all of the other cats in our family eat a food brand called Medi-cal that is in every single vet I've come across here. Which has been fine for the other cats, and I'm tired of arguing. Now my mother has it in her head that she wants to switch them over to Hill's Prescription Diet because it's 'better'. The bag of food she brought home from has this as ingredients:
Chicken By-Product Meal, Brewers Rice, Corn Gluten Meal, Ground Whole Grain Corn, Powdered Cellulose 10% (source of fiber), Pork Fat (preserved with mixed tocopherols and citric acid), Chicken Liver Flavor, Calcium Sulfate, Soybean Oil, Potassium Chloride, Choline Chloride, Vitamin E Supplement, DL-Methionine, vitamins (L-Ascorbyl-2-Polyphosphate (source of vitamin C), Vitamin E Supplement, Niacin, Thiamine Mononitrate, Vitamin A Supplement, Calcium Pantothenate, Riboflavin, Biotin, Vitamin B12 Supplement, Pyridoxine Hydrochloride, Folic Acid, Vitamin D3 Supplement), Calcium Carbonate, Iodized Salt, Taurine, minerals (Ferrous Sulfate, Zinc Oxide, Copper Sulfate, Manganous Oxide, Calcium Iodate, Sodium Selenite), preserved with Mixed Tocopherols and Citric Acid, Beta-Carotene, Rosemary Extract.
Yayyy for buying cat food that consists primarily of corn.
Basically the consensus in the family is this: I'm crazy. I have no idea what I'm talking about, and because I read several different views that say all the same thing on the internet/books it's all false. It's not like cats are strict carnivores or anything. I'd like to know when a cat in the wild would climb a stalk of corn and munch down.
Again, what they're eating now isn't really any better, but the Prescription Diet stuff is much more expensive. She's convinced that because it's more expensive that it's a better quality food. She doesn't read ingredients, she doesn't consider anything about the food at all but the fact that it's from the vet and that the vet is giving her the best quality food there is.
Does anyone know how to convince her to at least not change them over to the new food? I've given up the war on trying to change her or my sister's mind that the food they feed now isn't all that great either, but I would really like to change her mind about this. Her whole point in switching them over is that they appear to like it better. I'm sure if I whipped out some Iams or Purina food they'd be all over it too, lower quality foods tend to be stuffed with animal fat to make it taste better, but that doesn't mean we'd ever feed them Iams or Purina.