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I have 12 year old domestic long- hair cat who in general is very healthy, happy and active. She has developed a gastrointestinal sensitivity, i.e, bloody diarrhea and vomitting with certain foods. She has had a complete work-up under anesthesia by her vet. He's advised me we simply need to continue to change foods as she will eventually developed allergies to each. He also has me giving her Pepcid AC daily. Is there any "human" food she might tolerate better, I feel I'm running out of foods to try and the negative results are so unpleasant!

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July 20 2007 at 1:53 PM (9 minutes and 58 seconds later)
         
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We're having a similar problem with one of our elderly in-house rescues, so I can certainly understand the frustration.

If you're willing to spend the time, there are homemade recipes offered here, by a vet who specializes in feline nutrition and isn't selling anything www.catinfo.org

Otherwise, keep it simple and don't change foods too often - which can present the problem all by itself even in healthy cats.

Find a canned food that lists the actual meat in the first two ingredients rather than some vegetable product (called something 'meal') or meat 'by-product' which can be anything from hooves to chicken lips Images available only to Customers.



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