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Originally Posted by Stumptown
For the doubters, urinary crystals do happen on dry food diets when they're not hydrated enough. Here's a good article on the dry/wet food debate. This article is also good about pointing out that the worst thing about most dry foods is the grains. I've got all my felines on strict grain-free free diets, mixed wet and dry food. More expensive, but they're much healthier (one has had major GI problems) and have thrived into their twenties. |
This actually happened to my cat... it was horrible. The cat would just sit in the litter box and try to pee with no success. Luckily the vet could remove the blockage with a catheter (the cat was asleep for this) and he didn't have to have his junk removed. We now have him on a wet/dry combination that works very well and is made for cats prone to these crystals.
Our cat usually won't drink standing water, needs to be running. Had to get him a water fall so he would drink enough water.