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Please Help. Remember my cat, Buttercup, who used to have the scabs? Well…I changed the food from Purina Kitten-Kaboodle, to Purina Indoor formula and they went away so I assumed that it was a food allergy. But now they have come back and they are even worse!!! They’re bleeding left and right! And She can’t sleep with me anymore because of it. Is It the Food? Or is it something else? PLEASE HELP!!! THIS IS URGENT AND IT MAY MEAN THE CATS LIFE!!! I DON’T THING WE HAVE THE MONEY TO TAKE HER TO THE VET AND I AM WORRIED SICK ABOUT HER!!! She means the world to me and l would die for her. She is one of the most important things in my life and she might die because we don’t have the money to take her to the vet.
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Ziggy made some great points. To add to that, my sister has a cat, Benny, with severe food allergies. Before they found the right food he looked like he had a severe case of mange. I\\\’m a strong advocate of EVO and Wellness CORE. If you can afford to try those, I think they would benefit your cat. If that is not an option, spring for Dick Van Patten\\\’s Natural Balance. You can find this food at Petco/Petsmart. The Green Pea and Duck dry food works wonders for Benny. It took a few weeks for him to heal but it was definitely the fix he needed. They also have a limited Ingredient canned food which should work great for your cat as well. I\\\’d actually recommend the Limited Ingredient first as I believe wet food is much healthier than dry food for cats.
This food will be a bit more expensive than Purina but the benefits are incredible. First, Purina uses many fillers which do not provide any nutrition for the cats. Natural Balance does not have anywhere near the fillers. That means the cat is getting more healthy stuff from less food. They will eat much less because they will need less to get the nutrion they need. If they eat less, they will poop less and it won\\\’t smell as bad because the quality of the ingredients is higher. Another benefit is an all around healthier cat with fewer visits to the vet.
You will need to give the cat several weeks to adjust and know for sure if this new food will work. Like Ziggy said, Kit-N-Kaboodle and Purina One are essentially the same food. Waiting to see if the Purina One will work won\\\’t do any good. You have to switch to a totally different food that is not Purina.
There are several ingredients that can cause food allerges. The most common foods are beef, corn, soy, seafood and dairy. It\’s important to totally eliminate these foods from the cat\’s diet if you suspect they are the problem. It\’s also important that absolutely NO table scraps are fed to the cat while you are trying to find the right food. Only feed the food you are testing. If none of the foods Ziggy and I have suggested work, you may have to take your cat to the vet to get a prescription food. Try our suggestions first.
I know you said you don\\\’t have the money to take your cat to a vet. If possible he does need to be checked out. The vet may be able to give him something to make him more comfortable while you are seeing which new food will work best for him.
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Are you entirely certain that it\\\’s not fleas?? Fleas can leave some serious scabbing if left untreated. When I first adopted B-Rock, he was covered from head to toe in flea bite scabs. If he messed with them or bumped them on something, they\\\’d open & bleed. It only takes a few days to treat for fleas with some Advantage (or the like) spot treatment.
Otherwise, regarding the food change…
You didn\\\’t really change the quality of the food at all when you switched from Kit \\\’N Kaboodle to Purina Indoor formula. It\\\’s the same exact brand, and both formulas are quite low-quality.
Kit \\\’N Kaboodle ingredients:
Ground yellow corn, corn gluten meal, soybean meal, meat and bone meal, beef tallow preserved with mixed-tocopherols (source of Vitamin E), oceanfish meal, turkey by-product meal, phosphoric acid, salt, brewers dried yeast, animal digest, potassium chloride, tetra sodium pyrophosphate, choline chloride, calcium carbonate, taurine, L-Lysine monohydrochloride, zinc sulfate, ferrous sulfate, added color (Red 40, Blue 2, Yellow 5, Yellow 6), glyceryl monostearate, L-Alanine, manganese sulfate, vitamin supplements (E, A, B-12, D-3), niacin, copper sulfate, calcium pantothenate, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin supplement, pyridoxine hydrochloride, folic acid, citric acid, calcium iodate, biotin, menadione sodium bisulfite complex (source of Vitamin K activity), sodium selenite.
Purina Indoor Cat ingredients:
Corn meal, Poultry by-product meal, Corn gluten meal, Soy flour, Animal fat preserved with mixed-tocopherols (form of Vitamin E), Powdered cellulose, Salmon meal, Animal liver flavor, Soybean hulls, Malt extract, Calcium carbonate, Phosphoric acid, Salt, Choline chloride, Potassium chloride, Taurine, Vitamin E supplement, Zinc sulfate, Ferrous sulfate, Manganese sulfate, Parsley flakes, Niacin, Added color (Red 40, Yellow 5, Blue 2), Vitamin A supplement, Calcium pantothenate, Thiamine mononitrate, Copper sulfate, Riboflavin supplement, Vitamin B-12 supplement, Pyridoxine hydrochloride, Folic acid, Vitamin D-3 supplement, Calcium iodate, Biotin, Menadione sodium bisulfite complex (source of Vitamin K activity), Sodium selenite
Check out those top 5 ingredients in each: CORN (x2), soybean product, unnamed meat meals, and animal fat. Not stuff you want to be feeding your cat, at least in such gross quantities (top ingredients = stuff there is the most of in the product).
I obviously can\\\’t say what the scabs are from, as I\\\’m not a veterinarian. However, I don\\\’t think you can rule out food allergies yet because you really didn\\\’t change anything about the diet. If you really want to test food allergies, go to a grain-free food with named protein sources as the top ingredients like EVO or Wellness CORE (if you\\\’re sticking to kibble, that is - there are many wet foods that would also be superior & a way to test for allergies). Regardless of whether this is a food allergy or not, you should really consider improving the quality of the food that you feed your cat. It could be that it isn\\\’t an allergy issue, but rather a poor diet issue in general.
Like I said, I\\\’m not a vet, so I can\\\’t tell you what the sores are from. You really should take her to the vet for something like this, especially since it\\\’s been going on for so long. I understand that the vet costs money, but that\\\’s the commitment we make when we get a pet. We become their care takers, and we need to provide for them. Sometimes that means making sacrifices.
I truly hope that Buttercup gets better soon. It\\\’s unbearable to watch your pets suffer.
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I am so sorry about Buttercup! That is kind of strange. When did you start feeding her the food? It could be a reaction from the Purina brand.Where does she have the scabs, and when did they start appearing? Sorry I am asking so many questions! Maybe she got into a plant or something. I feel so sorry for you! Just keep hope….
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ooo my!! i don\\\’t know maybe its the phone i feel so bad i\\\’m sooooo sorry that happend i don\\\’t know what to do!! oooo my i feel so terrible i wish i could help!@
ur friend,
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well put her back on the food get a job get the money take her to the vet think of your cat as a human or ask a friens\\\\d for monry
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omg im so sorry just pray and maybe a miracle will happen just try treating the scabs wen they bleed so they dont get infected just keep hope
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