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We are on an all wet food diet now and my mom thinks we are peeing more... anyone else experienced this?
Note from Mom: Several weeks ago, I changed my cats diets from free feed dry food and wet food once a day to no more dry food and wet food twice a day as per vets orders. My kitties have all at one point or another suffered from UTI's and I have to say that since I have changed their diet... they are all so much healthier. While I am so happy that they are doing well... I have been noticing that I have to clean the litter box alot more often, I do my usual scooping twice a day but I find that there is ALOT more pee clumps, I run out of litter quickly and am changing the litter and washing the box once a week instead of every other week. I want to clarify that this is not another UTI, they are all peeing normally, just alot more. Has anyone else experienced this once changing your kitties diet? It seems normal since they are having more water intake with the wet food and no more dry but just curious if this has happened to anyone else. meow?
Yes, this is normal. Canned food has more water, so they will urinate more. Cats do not have a strong thirst mechanism and in the wild, get most of their water from their prey. Cats feed dry food will drink more water from a bowl, but not enough. Dry fed cats overall water intake is much lower that cats feed canned food. I recently switched my cats to canned (and got a drinkwell fountain) as Mr. Fez had a UTI and I am noticing the same thing. I would not be too concerned if there are no other symptoms.
Yes this is normal. By converting from dry to all wet you are probably consuming approx 0.5 - 1 cup a day more fluids than you used to be. So peeing more is normal.
Freckles
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