My cats are cute in expensive ways.

[snarp]

I'm going to have to let Buoyancy share Dubiety's expensive medicated food. I've been trying to keep them separated for meals, but they both just spend mealtime walking back and forth between their bowl and the door separating them. Bu mewls and scratches at it.

And they're really stressed out the rest of the day, too - Du won't let me pet him, Bu acts scared of me and his toys. Why am I separating them, why am I locking Du in, why am I taking food away from the anxious former-strays, why am I being meeeeeean?

So, yeah. I gave in and left the medicated stuff out for both of them last night, immediately calming them both down considerably - Du actually purred last night - and called the vet this morning to make sure it was safe to keep doing that. It is, but, like. This is expensive food.

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[sophisted]

So I have a cat that almost died from urinary blockage and the same food was prescribed to him... it helped, but it's not nutritious and it's expensive. I did a lot of research and all sources seem to agree that it's an the dry food itself that's causing the stones due to the magnesium and ash content and the dehydrating quality of dry food. Cats already don't drink a lot of water, dry food dehydrates further. A solution that worked for me was simply switching to wet food. I don't even get very expensive wet food, I'm using Sheba brand currently. We've been 2 years without incident, after 9 years or him having UTIs and FLUTD at least once a year. The last time he got sick, my vet warned that he would need to have his urethra widened to prevent it happen again. Haven't needed to do that. Also, a water fountain for a drinking dish, and add some water to the canned food.