Archive for April, 2007

Pet Food Fallout

Wednesday, April 4th, 2007

Both cats have now been diagnosed with renal medullary washout. Translation, their kidneys are no longer able to concentrate their urine, so fluids simply flow through them.

A week ago, both these cats were active, healthy loving cats. Now they are lethargic, withdrawn, fearful, they have decreased appetite and they are filling up their litterpans faster than I can clean them.

The nephrons have been gradually destroyed within their systems on a pretty rapid basis which is not normal. Kidney disease is generally a gradual progression of symptoms. Although the vet isn’t willing to point a finger at the food it is quite a coincidence that suddenly two of my cats are diagnosed with the same thing in line with the tainted food symptoms others are also experiencing. Truly sucks