Need Raw Feeding Help!

I have had crystals in my urine in the past and I (we all) eat Royal Canin SO. There are some who raw feed on here but my vet suggested this prescription food for me. What did your vet say??

you might send a PM to jessie's owner (the sheltie) whose family feeds them raw. they have a cat on raw, and he many have some suggestions on how to get niobi to eat it. you might just sear it really light on both sides, just to kind of bring out the flavor, but not really cooking it. don't microwave it, though, because microwaves heat from the inside out. :)

Mom says she is convinced that a cat (or dog) will get hungry enough to eat what you give them. Mom and the vet want me to try a wet diet for similar problems that you are having. I won't touch the stuff, so far. The vet said you can give it up to 3 days, 72 hours, and then we have to eat. Mom asked about a raw diet for me and the vet is not convinced by them. I am on a dry Royal Canin. Make sure to consult your vet. Good luck and let us know what happens!

Cooter, you need to be very careful about that with cats. Dogs can go days without eating with no damage other than being hungry. Cats on the other hand are different. It is very dangerous for a cat to go very long at all without eating. If they go more than a day it could be very serious. So with a cat you can't just wait for them to get hungry enough. If they fast for awhile you need to get them to eat ANYTHING (even nasty kibble). When it comes to our pets health being "convinced" is not good enough. We need actual facts. So please please cooter do not let your mom ever do that to you or recommend it. Let me know and I can send you some links to articles about it.

I recall from a previous post that "stones popped out" from your bladder... did you ever have the vet analyze them to see what type they were? The two most common types of urinary crystals (uroliths) - calcium oxalate and struvite - are composed of different materials. It is vitally important for cats with crystals that they eat canned food, drink a lot of water, and eat an appropriate diet. There's some good quality wet foods out there that you (Niobi) might like -- Merrick, Wellness (can or pouch), Innova/Evo, and Felidae to name a few. Also, what kind of water are you drinking? Faucet? Distilled? IN has very hard water (lots of calcium) so if you're drinking faucet water and you have the calcium oxalate type of crystal/stone... please consider switching to distilled water. The hard IN water can make things worse. Doesn't need to be expensive fancy water, just plain distilled water w/o any minerals added.