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Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: Great Lakes
Posts: 33,508
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Wisest Elder Ever
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: Great Lakes
Posts: 33,508
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I would give higher fat content to the cat if there is no diarrhea.
Cats need more fat than other mammals.
Oreo was given all kinds of dairy at her birth home. I never offered it because of the "no dairy for cats" rule. Her first Thanksgiving here, she was about 6mos old, she jumped onto the table when our backs were turned, and put her paw on the pumpkin pie with whipped cream and dragged it over to herself!
So from then on I gave her milk, cheese etc. But it is really the whipped cream she loves. She dropped the milk and cheese after about 2 yrs. So we use it as a treat and reinforcement treat (like after the vet visit or medication). Her teeth are fabulous as well. I have put some types of medications in the whipped cream, and she takes them easily. Only the very bitter ones she will refuse this way. We buy the whipped cream (which we call Chooka--because of the sound it makes shaking it) in a 3 pack of jumbo size, at Costco. With Oreo so ill, the Vet said to give her anything she wants and will eat...to prevent weight loss. Chooka fits that bill and she loves it!
I think Oreo is the exception, rather than the rule. Weezie cannot tolerate the whipped cream, but Houdini is getting a little bit so far and no diarrhea for her either.
Before Oreo, none of our previous cats got dairy at all.
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