herein, the Great Cat Food Quest
Oct. 17th, 2008 02:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dchenesTomorrow commenceth the Great Cat Food Quest, Part 2. Snip's allergic reaction seems to bother me more than it bothers her, but it bothers me a lot. I'm told it will take eight weeks for any diet to have an effect on the allergies.
Part 1 consisted of switching out Purina One chicken and rice for Science Diet z/d. The experiment lasted two weeks before I declared a failure, because (a) the z/d gave Snip diarrhea, even after I'd been feeding them half Purina and half z/d for a week, and (b) Lily didn't like it.
Part 2 consists of switching out Purina One for a single protein source food, which I hope is both less expensive and more acceptable to Snip's innards and Lily's taste buds than the z/d.
It's logistically impossible to feed something to one cat and not the other. Snip will eat hers and half of Lily's, so I need to find something Lily likes that Snip isn't allergic to.
Part 1 consisted of switching out Purina One chicken and rice for Science Diet z/d. The experiment lasted two weeks before I declared a failure, because (a) the z/d gave Snip diarrhea, even after I'd been feeding them half Purina and half z/d for a week, and (b) Lily didn't like it.
Part 2 consists of switching out Purina One for a single protein source food, which I hope is both less expensive and more acceptable to Snip's innards and Lily's taste buds than the z/d.
It's logistically impossible to feed something to one cat and not the other. Snip will eat hers and half of Lily's, so I need to find something Lily likes that Snip isn't allergic to.
