"Mike" wrote in message
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I need some food information for cats with Oxalate stones. I read
somewhere that cats with Struvite crystals should eat a meat based
diet and cats with Oxalate stones should eat a plant based diet. I
was
always under the impression that plant based diets weren't very good
for cats so now I'm confused. Could someone clear this up for me?
What
exactly does a plant based diet mean?

I'm also looking for the dry foods available for prevention of
Oxalate
stones. It appears that there aren't that many, I only found four.
The
ones I found are Hill's Prescription X/D, IVD Therapeutic Control,
Waltham/Royal Canin Urinary SO, and Eukanuba/Iams PH/O. Of these
four
does anyone think one is better than the others? It looks like the
X/D
aims for a urine PH of 6.6-6.8 while the others aim for 6.1-6.9. I
don't which is better. Also, even if the cat should be eating a
plant
based diet, it seems like there's a little too much corn in these
foods.

Does anyone have any suggestions or opinions they'd like to share
with
me? BTW, I will be talking with the veterinarian about this but I
just
want to gather information before I do so I know exactly what's
going
on.

Hi Mike,
You should be able to find the info you need on these websites.
If you have a cat that suffers from any form of FLUTD, it's best if
you can feed them on a wet diet ,e.g. canned.

http://www.supervet.co.uk/cat/cystitis.htm
http://www.fabcats.org/is61.html cystitis
http://www.marvistavet.com/html/body..._lower_urinary
http://www.waltham.com/cats/clinical...t_disease.html

Alison
http://catinfolinks.mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/