So yesterday Linus had another trip to the vets. He was due his annual MOT and boosters and it also gave us the opportunity to see if there was any difference in his kidney values.
He got a clean bill of health and his boosters, then we turned our attention to his kidneys. His weight was exactly the same as it was back at the end of December and so were his blood values. This is good news as it means he hasn't got any worse. So the plan is to re-check his blood values in 3 months time, in between now and then I need to weigh him regularly and if there is either a sudden or a gradual creeping change in his weight to take him back in.
He is now fully on his new diet and eating it with great enthusiasm. All the tins and pouches say he needs 3 of them a day but as I feed him dry as well he is getting 1.5 tins/pouches a day so, theoretically, he is on a half and half dry and wet food diet.
Just in case anyone is interested he is getting the James Wellbeloved Senior (Fish) dry food. The wet food is a random tin or pouch from the following
Fish4Cats: Salmon Mousse for Cats, Trout Mousse for Cats, Tuna Fillet With Crab, Tuna Fillet With Salmon, Tuna Fillet With Seaweed & Sardine and Mackerel
Sainsburies Delicious Collection (Ocean Fish)
Natures Menu Country Hunter Duck and Pheasant
James Welbelloved Grain Free Senior (Lamb)
For treats he is getting Fish4Dogs Superior Adult Complete Small-Bite. We got a free sample of this with the first order from them and Linus loves them.
There were other foods out there that he tried and either rejected or ate without enthusiasm. Applaws (wet ad dry) & Wainwrights. He also rejected the one Hills chicken free renal diet. I have listed them so if anyone is looking for chicken free cat food then they know that these options are available, just because Linus doesn't like them doesn't mean another cat won't.
