Hi Everyone,

I wrote about my kits first on the "Problems with Pet Food" board, and this is a continuation of that.  http://itchmoforums.com/index.php?topic=1126.0

Out of the two cats we brought in yesterday, one has normal thyroid and no blood in her urine.  She has, not one new spot of skin cancer, but two.  I am so upset about it, but am trying to put that off to think about what to do for our other cat...  More info from the lab will be here in a few days. 

(Computer crashed when writing this in Word, and now it is a couple days later...)

The cat with recurring skin cancer - Today the vet said she has "Bowen's Disease" and the spots were pre-cancerous.  I can't find out much about it online.  There is a human version, called the same thing too - which is weird.   We are really upset about it here because she's had surgery about every 6 months to remove skin from her neck and chest in the lat 2 years.  It's hard on her.  Financially, it's been hard on us.  I check her skin all the time and it leaves me in *constant fear* mode.  We've been lucky so far, only once did it progress to cancerous.

The other cat has:
+ Blood in urine
+ Oxalate crystals in urine
+ Urine Ph is too low
- Urine culture pending
- The rest of her "total blood" work-up is pending.  Maybe a couple of days, but the vet said what she saw at her lab (she also sends some of the blood out), was OK.

The vet wants me to feed them Hill's C/D or some Purina.  I can't because of the recall.  What made all of the cats here sick in the first place was Science Diet.  The Hill's people have handled the recall situation abominably!  The Purina people weren't much better.

What to do?  If I do manage (with my CFS and other health problems) to have enough energy to feed raw or homemade, what should I feed the one with the urine crystals?  Will that make her worse?  Will tuna make her worse?  From what I've read online so far wet food will help.  No more dry.  We are doing that but I am terrified of feeding any of the Menu foods and, if we can help it, don't want to give another penny to those %$@*! that sat by while animals were dying, simply to make profit.  Even now, they are ditching employees to make up for what they lost from people who stopped buying their poison.

My other two cats (outdoor, semi-feral) have been vomiting and eating lots of grass on the Felidae dry.  Wrote about it in the "Problems with Pet Food" part of this forum.

I am at wits end right now.

/venting

Dracena

Laurie - Thanks for the prayers.  All of us here have probably lost our minds after the last few months, and any good vibes sent our way are incredibly appreciated!
Thanks for the URL also. I'm going through it now.

We don't feed the tuna every day because of the problems with it.  Right now we have some pre-cooked turkey, roast beef and chicken from the deli that my fiance bought.  He asked if they were cooked with "anything at all but the animal" (which I'm sure amused the butcher!), they don't have any spices, etc.  Still, we'll be giving them the canned Felidae until we learn to either cook for them properly or get some of the raw food that can be ordered online.

I use ixquick.com because Google does creepy things with your search info... But I hadn't tried that phrase, which I will.  When searching earlier so many of the different pages that came up all had info garnered through the same, (apparently) few, studies.  Maybe there are so few studies because it's supposed to be rare... dunno, but it's frustrating.

- Dracena